2013 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, SOLUTIONS, INTENTIONS

I wasn't going to do New Year's Resolutions this year. I read an article on not wording your resolutions as "I will" or I will not" as it seems to feel like you are setting up for failure when you do or don't do what them. Instead writing resolutions as "I am." I decided to give this a try.
As I have been re-obsessed with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass lately I thought maybe I would write my resolutions as a poem. Cheesy? Yes I am. :)
Also I have been reading The Yoga Sutras, so my first resolution "honesty, truth, cleanness, obedience" is a line from that book.
Here's to a loving & fabulous 2013.

Resolutions, Solutions, Intentions

I am honesty, truth, cleanness, obedience.
I am yoga and meditation (as daily as possible).
I am eating to live (not living to eat, and healthy, greens more conscious of what goes in my body).
I am closing (at least) 30 loans a month (with improved quality with each month that passes).
I am a patient, listening, kind, playful mother (bringing love and joy to my boys life. Living by example).
I am living love (giving love to each and every living being).
I am living without judgement (without anger or resentment, living in the present).
I am improving my heart and my health (with cardio at least 3 times a week).
I am with great joy a dog owner (hopefully in the Spring).
I am consuming less and wasting less (only purchasing what is necessity, cutting back on unnecessary  If a "need" pops into my mind I will wait 5 days before deciding to purchase, ridding the impulse purchase).
I am bringing home more than I am spending.
I am traveling to one new place (each year).
I am giving my time (volunteering at least once a month).
I am pursuing my love of photography.
I am (finally and fully) learning Italian.

Peace & Love

A STORY

I read a story about a king and a group of monks.

There were a group of monks that were to be put to death. They were brought before the king. The kind told the monks, "if you can give me something that will make me happy when I am sad and make me sad when I am happy I will spare your lives." The king feeling this was an impossible tasks. He sent the monks away to come back the next day.
The monks stayed up the entire night contemplating what they could bring the king.
The next day the king sent for the monks to be brought to him, and to be prepared to be put to death.
The monks stood before the king. The kind said, "what have you brought me that will make me happy when I am sad and make me sad when I am happy?"
The monks handed the king a piece of paper. The king opened the paper that read:

"This too shall pass."

The monks lives were spared.

Peace & Love.

A COOL 16 YEAR OLD NEEDS COOL CASH

I found this idea on Pinterest awhile back and saved it to do for my 16 year old b-day. Teenagers are so hard to buy for and mine prefers cash anyway so he can spend it how he want to spend it. So this is what I did:

Original link HERE

Peace & Love.

JUST (unfinished poem)

12/28/2012

JUST

Just let it...,

If it were meant to be it would be.

Trying to force it,

Only frustrates you and frustrates me.

(this is unfinished, but I have nothing else to add to it yet)

Peace & Love