I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Rather, I set goals I hope to accomplish for the next year. In 2013, my family and I set a few fitness goals that I am proud to say we achieved: my husband and I both did our first 5K last year (he did three!); he and I also attempted to bike the Capital Trail from Jamestown to Chickahominy Riverfront Park and back (a round trip of 14 miles, though we did 8, not too bad); and as a family, we biked the Virginia Beach boardwalk (both kids learned to ride without training wheels last year, a feat which makes them both pretty proud).
This year, my health goals are to run three 5K events (I am already signed up for one), take a family bike ride and/or hike at a state park we have not visited yet, plant a successful garden both in the spring and fall (maybe throw in a few herbs, which we’ve never attempted to grow before), and fulfill that 14-mile bike ride on the Capital Trail with my husband. Other more personal goals of mine are to actually try to prepare some of the recipes I pin on Pinterest, lose the baby weight (It’s been nine years, so I think it is safe to say that this isn’t going to happen, but it is on my list every New Year nonetheless!), be more patient with my children, organize my kitchen and clean off my desk (Another goal I set every year and never seem to finish, though right now as I type this I can actually see the top of it, so there is hope for this one yet!).
Maybe I am being a little ambitious with some of these goals for 2014. Who knows? Some of these I may actually accomplish, and some I may not. But if I can wake up each day and strive to be a better person than I was the day before, then I will be just as happy with that.