Hello 2012!!!

I'm excited to start a new year.  I'm approaching the "resolutions", or actually life changes, I'd like to make in a very positive, planned way.  And to help me out I'm taking two "scrapbooking" classes at Big Picture Classes: Ali Edwards' One Little Word (I'm a big fan of her and her style, have been reading her blog for years, and wanted to do this class last year) and  Lisa Day's Journey to Happiness: What Matter's Most.

One Little Word  is a yearlong class, with monthly prompts to help us keep our word at the forefront of our lives, to help us work out the issues through journaling and some fun play with photos/embellishments.  At the end I'll have a small album, but more importantly I'll have support and incentive to work on my issues.  The word I've chosen (or actually it chose me) is: focus.   Because that's really the root of my problem.  I can set any goal/expectation/change I'd like to make, but I easily loose focus.  I get distracted/overwhelmed/discouraged too easily, and then easily slide into the old way of doing things, choose the easy way rather than the rewarding way.

So, welcome 2012, the year of focus!