The beginning...

Hello!

My name's Christine, and like many people I have made resolutions for 2010. Of course there's the usual: lose weight, get healthy, hit the gym, blah blah blah. BUT I've decided on something I think may be rather unique. I've decided to be all about positivity this year. I think being positive provides great benefits for the mind, body, and soul; by being positive you decrease stress and ultimately your body profits as well. Now, I don't mean being annoyingly optimistic and looking at everything through rose-coloured glasses. But simply looking at things in a "glass is half full" kind of way.

Now, I've discovered that this can be really challenging. It's January 7, 2010 and I've already broken this resolution haha. But I think that's ok as long as I recognize it, learn from it, and move forward (this is like all mistakes...right?). For example, I can be a pretty clumsy person. I mean, while I was getting my legs sugared, my esthetician told me I had a few bruises on the back of my legs...I can honestly tell you I have no idea where they came from, but I tend to bump into things and randomly trip or fall up the stairs every now and then haha. Anyways, one of my resolutions this year is to be less clumsy...see there I go again! Upon thinking about this, I realized that thinking it as "less clumsy" is classified as negative thought! So, I need to think about it as being "more coordinated". See how this is more difficult than I thought??

Despite all the specific resolutions, what I'm really getting at (and I think everyone else who makes resolutions is getting at as well) is to be a better person. I think that by examining my thought process (can you tell I'm a psych major? lol), I can really begin to look deep within myself and make the personal changes that I feel need to be made. So I think writing this blog will help. During the day I'll attempt to take note of things that seem relevant, and then post the results here. I guess this is my own little, mini-research project haha.



So this is the first blog I've ever written, and I really don't know what I'm doing. I know you generally need to stay on topic, but it's not really like a journal or diary (or is it?). I mean, that you don't really talk about people or specific events that concern people because what if those people are reading? Then you have drama...best to leave those things in the actual diary. Anyways, as you have probably guessed, I do tend to ramble, and my entries have the potential to be long. But this will probably (hopefully!) be the longest post, as I don't want to bore anyone...and you didn't sign up to read a novel! lol


I hope you enjoy, and thanks for reading! :)


~Christine~