Best Year Ever. 2012

When I made the move here and upended my life in 2009, I had literally never been happier. Over the last year that’s shifted some (a lot). It started shifting with my health problems and declining athletic performance in the end of 2010, and rapidly plummeted with increased job stress (see e.g. and e.g.). And I’m realizing that I need to figure out a way to get out out of this burned out funk.

It is pretty clear that I’m not happy with my life right now; but what is unfortunately not clear, is how to make myself happy.

So, I have some simple goals for the year ahead:

Get back my peace and happiness…which really requires figuring out what I want in my life and then going after it.
Figure out who I want to be…and become it.
Blog more…if I want to and if it helps.

2012 will be the year I become a real grownup and a real adult and a real happy person.Here’s where I will track those goals and THE BEST YEAR EVER. Bring it, 2012.

Finding my peace and happiness

Happiness is training for short fast races.
Happiness is my best friend in the whole wide world.
Happiness is showing my love for those that I love.

Figure out who I want to be:

Happy
Strong, fierce, and fearless on the race course
Chooses
Minimalist.

A public defender super heroine by day, I am a cupcake baker extraordinaire by night. And come weekend, I am an IronPerson. I deal with an NPR addiction daily and I dream of one day having Carl Kasell on my answering machine. I strive to be the best fur-mommy I can be, and when I have time, I'm learning to be a grownup.