Thinking Ahead.

I'm already thinking ahead to next year.
About what I want to do and be. About what I want to change and improve from this year's version of myself.

I want to start a meditation practice. It will help, I think, to rediscover my center and increase my mindfulness. I'm going to set aside a space that's for meditation and use it for just that. Whether it's a pillow that I pull out from under the accent table near the sofa and have my meditation and focus objects on the table, or do something similar in my closet, I want to make sure that the space I have set aside has what I'll need and that it can be used easily and without distraction.

I am going to be doing more with my photography in the coming year, especially refining it, now that I have a name for the style of photography that I love doing. (Hop over to my photo blog for more information on that!)

I hope to start journalling again. A personal journal will supplement the meditative practice that I mentioned. It will help to get the gunk out of my head. I've added some stuff to my Amazon wish list to help out with this. I've also got plans and hopes to start another journal for the future -- something that came about after the election madness. (My previous post will elaborate a bit more, though I'm not going into a lot of detail here. My twitter account, however, is pervasively active in the pursuit of the idea that America elected the wrong person on November 8.)

I also am going to start eating primarily vegetarian again on January 1. The only times I won't is when we are at family gatherings and the host would have to inconvenience him or herself to provide me a non-meat meal. I've given myself a lot of hate about when I stopped being vegetarian. It was all out of convenience and that is reprehensible, so I'm fixing it.

I'm not going to hold myself to any sort of promise about this, but if I were to start writing fiction stories again (whether short stories or one of the novels I have had rolling in my head for years) I would love it.

I'm definitely going to continue trying to be the best human, wife, friend, coworker, and admin assistant that I can be. Those are always givens on my list.

I hope that my life will be filled with more changes and more improvements that just what I've listed here, but if not, I will be pretty satisfied. While these changes and improvements don't seem like much to folks outside of my life, they are pretty important to me.

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