I’m sort of a late bloomer when it comes to New Years Resolutions.  It seems like I only actually begin considering what I would like to change about myself or how I’d like to grow after everyone else starts telling me what they’ve resolved to do for the year. So it’s a few weeks into January now, and I just remembered to think about it.

There might be a few others like me, or at least I’m hoping so, so that I’m not left out on this limb alone. I was thinking about it after breakfast with a friend and I was starting to feel down about the fact that I forgot to be intentional about how I want to grow.  I drove around running errands still thinking about it, and then I remembered that I want to learn how to write grants.  I’ve wanted to learn for the better part of a year and just haven’t done it.  I’ve even bought a book that promises to teach me really effectively how to do it because the best grant writers and grant givers wrote the book.  Sounds promising, doesn’t it?  Well, I’m going to give it a good try! There are a few other things as well, like I want to learn how to listen to people better, and I want to tell people when I see something in them that encourages or challenges me to be a better person. These are my “New Year’s Resolutions” a few weeks late.

Maybe you forgot to write down your resolutions or like me, even to think about it.  Is there something you’ve wanted to do for a long time and just haven’t done it?  What about last year’s resolutions?  Did you follow through? Did you think about them again after you first thought them up?  If not, then instead of setting a whole new list of things you’d like to do [but secretly you don’t think you will], what if you went back to the old list, only with a year’s worth of wisdom to help you through it and see what happens in 2010.  Don’t leave them behind because most likely, there was a reason why you thought you needed them in the first place.  Maybe you just needed another 365 days to get the job done.