Did you make any new year resolutions this year? If you remember my post about New Year Resolutions and the giveaway along with it, I said that I don’t believe in resolutions which is true. I think most of them fail. However, even though I feel that way I made a goal/resolution of my own for this new year. I decided that I wanted to spend the year trying to get more plugged in at church and meet people there.
Even though I seem like a social maven on-line I’m not social at all in real life. Talking to people is a challenge for me, sharing my life with them is hard, of course I could talk about my blog until I was blue in the face but then I feel like I’m bragging so I try really hard to just not talk about my blog. Anxiety and nerves always kick in when I’m around people. I over analyze everything so I’m working on overcoming this and meeting people.
Here’s My progress so far:
My husband and I joined a class at church. We had our first meeting on Monday and it went ok. I say it went ok because all we had time to do was introductions. The videos and dinner portion ran late so we didn’t have a lot of time for discussions and digging in deep. Next week I’m sure I’m going to be pushed further out of my comfort zone. SIGH!
Then last night we went to a family game night with our small group hosts from church. They held it at their house and we had dinner, played Catch Phrase and had dessert. The kids had quite a lot of fun and Zoe did really well. I see a lot of my anxiety in her when it comes to meeting new people but I think she knows all the kids from Sunday School. I met one new couple last night and got to know three couple a little more than I did before. But I have to say that Catch Phrase made me feel like I was going to pass out with anxiety. I’m sure I wasn’t alone, and I did everything inside my head to calm myself down. I took a lot of deep breaths and tried to slow my heart rate. I love playing games, really I do! Anxiety bothers me a lot more now than it did 10 years ago.
Our other goal is saving for Disney World and Paying off debt. I would say that’s another post all on it’s own right there.
Overall I would say yes I’m making progress on my goals for this year. How about you, how are you doing? Are you losing weight, are you eating better, saving money, paying off debt? How are your goals going?
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Im not doing so well on my plan to exercise. I was doing well, using kinect every day for over a week. Then the husband decided to rearrange the living room and there isn’t enough room. Hopefully we’ll get the christmas tree out( yes, it is de-decorated but we haven’t had a way to get it out yet) tomorrow, and then I can get back in the swing of things.
I can see why a game like catch phrase could be difficult to play if you struggle with anxiety, maybe you should get some simpler, easy and fun games to play instead. Saboteur sp was a fun one, and even kids could play.
I usually have a very simple resolution made every year… try to eat healthier by watching the number of times I eat fast foods every week. I’m pretty conscious about my weight because I have lower back problem, which means if gain too much weight my lower back aches. It’s a great deterrent to overeating.
am not doing quite so well as I was hoping. But we have another week coming so maybe I will finally get my Christmas stuff down and put away! O__O
You should join MOPS with me next year! I love that I’m with Godly women and at that moms. The group as a whole is split into 6 small groups. It’s been so fun! You can be in my group … I’d selfishly love that! The meetings are only 2 times a month is you don’t do the book club or playgroup days. Actually now that I think about it … I don’t know how I’d swing that with Riley’s preschool … hum … I digress.
I’ve not being doing well at all with weigh loss, but I think that resolution is better made out of the New Year. I think you have a reason to go after it harder. I never gained the weight back from last year (YEAH!). So I think I might try Moms Into Fitness again this year.