WOOOOOOO! Happy 2019! I hope you had a wonderful time celebrating.

My husband’s side of the family came over to our house for dinner and it was lovely. We played a few rounds of a cowboy board game called Bang!, and it was hilarious. Highly recommended.

Thankfully, there weren’t many fireworks, so Thor was able to nap through it all. Hehe!

I love the start of a new year and setting New Year’s resolutions, even though time has shown I rarely keep them. Who cares? I get these first few weeks of the year to live with the joy that everything might work out just as I envision.

I feel specially hopeful this year because during the last 4 months of 2018, I proved to myself that change is possible. I created a new habit that has made my life a better one.

I’ve been writing almost every single day.

Since reading The Artist’s Way–which sets Morning Pages as a daily assignment–I’ve been waking up early and writing for about 30 minutes first thing in the morning.

I used the TimeLime app (here’s a post about that) to track this activity. A blue dot for each day I wrote.

It feels INCREDIBLE to know I spent 77 hours writing and thinking instead of checking social media on my phone in bed.

It’s shocking to think that for the first 8 months of 2018, pre-writing habit, I spent 154 hours of the morning reading other people’s thoughts and feelings instead of checking in with mine.

Ouch.

This habit is my biggest personal win of 2018, and I hope to continue daily writing throughout 2019.

I have other standard goals, like exercising, losing weight, cleaning closets, etc, etc, etc. And I hope to share how I will attempt to tackle each one.

I don’t just make resolutions… I plan and strategize and overthink. haha!

Will this be the year that I’ll keep them?

You’ll just have to keep reading the blog to see…

Hehehehehehe!

Big hug from Mexico.
Thank you for reading,
Malu

PS: LET’S GOOOOOO. 2019. BEST YEAR EVER. WOOOOO!