Hopes for a New Year

Every year we strive to be our best as a new year is born.  Today is 1/1/11.  Although I cannot believe it, it is, so here I am with my new resolutions.
Here are things that will be absolutely necessary for me to be successful this school year.

• Every school day, get up at six o'clock ON THE NOSE.  No sleeping in, even if I'm tired and want to sleep in just a few minutes.  This way I can not be rushed, and we can do our daily family scripture studying.
• Get my homework done ASAP.  There will be no messing around right after school, even though my brain always feels fried after a day of work.  Also, I will not spend more time than I need to on unimportant assignments.  (I have learned the hard way that it doesn't help anything.)   This way, I can not feel stressed, and 
• Go to bed on time.  If I get everything done as soon as I can, I can be in bed by 9 and read until 9:30 or 10.
• Get any projects I have done as soon as they are assigned.
• Keep all A's, of course!

Also, here are some other things I want to do for a better year.

• Exercise as often as possible.  As long as I don't have too much going on, I can do even just small things on the Wii Fit.  If it's a Saturday or I have lots of time, I can run or ride my bike.  Along with this, I will eat healthy (though normally I do anyway, so that won't be hard).  I really want another six pack.     
• Practice piano every day.

And then comes my religious life.

• Continue saying my prayers every morning and night, but always be more meaningful and not repetitive.
• Read the Book of Mormon every day.  I already do this, but I want to follow the program from YW that I used earlier last year that will help me be more diligent.   It is set up to finish it in 100 days, so that way I could read the whole thing at least three times this year.  If not, I want to start the Doctrine and Covenants or read more of the Bible. 
• Go to the temple at least once a month.
• Finish my Personal Progress by New Beginnings.  If I can just sit down every Sunday and see what I can get done, it will happen.
• Blog as often as possible.  Church leaders are always saying how important it is journal, and this blog basically is my journal.  Eventually I want to print it into a book so I can keep it forever.  Especially today after I was looking at family genealogy, I realized that we don't know much about many of our ancestors.  They seem so distant and unreal.  I don't want to be one of those millions that just completely fade away into nothing after death, once a few generations pass.  A journal can prevent that.

So the above were things to make a less stressful, healthier, testimony-building resolutions.  This year there are still many things I want to happen.

• Finish at least the first draft of Destiny.
• Try out for cheer as a Freshman.
• Perform in at least one play.
• Make lots of friends.
• Singing.
• Art.

I also look forward to:

• Watching Rachel in Adam in Peter Pan and Wendy-  Adam is Peter!
• Taking the two-week trip along the East Coast, starting with April's wedding.
• Our family reunion at the Rockin' R Ranch.  I haven't been to one since I was not quite eleven.

Oh, how quickly life is flying by!  But I will make it the best one!