2013, the Year of Lily

It's New Year's Eve!  Hooray!  As promised, here is my list of goals, accomplishments, resolutions, etc... :)

Places:

California

Seattle

NYC

Thailand

Ashland

OCF

Memories:

Sleep under the stars

Watch a meteor shower

Kiss at midnight on NYE

Lay a wreath on George Washington’s grave

Senior Skip Day with Jess

Graduation!  Grad party?

18^th birthday party!

Have a first-night, Gilmore Girls-style floormate bonding thing

Rush!

 

Accomplishments:

Apply to OSU

Get accepted into UHC

Survive my first term!

Pay for college- scholarships!!

Get trained as a server

Get a job in Corvallis

Meet fundraising goal for Thailand

Start planning another trip

Pass my AP Gov’t exam

Pass my AP Physics exam

Learn cup song/beat together

Learn one other cool trick

Learn and perfect one dish

Read all the Shakespeare plays

Self-Improvement:

Compliment at least 3 people every day

Do yoga at least once a week

Drink more water!

Keep room clean

Help out more around the house- laundry, dishes, sweeping

Keep in touch with people

Filter!  Check the honesty.

Burn the damn ships (commit)

Follow through on projects (QUIT QUITTING)

Stop analyzing the past!

Most of these are pretty self-explanatory; however, I feel that a note regarding the ships is in order: I read this story about Cortes, the Spanish conquistador, who ordered his troops to burn all of their ships when they arrived in the New World.  Apparently this forced them to be motivated to find shelter and food and explore.  While I absolutely DO NOT condone the fact that he went on to slaughter thousands of native people, I like the philosophy of "burning the ships," because it is a way of making yourself focus on the task at hand, without that option of turning back.

Other versions of this: Tightrope walkers used to sometimes remove the catching net so they had no other option but to get across.  Without the net, they had no guaranteed safety. Scary, but true.  Also, in Premium Rush, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character ripped the brake off his bike so he could never rely on it.  He HAD to figure out another way, and it ended up making him the best rider in Manhattan.  Of course, he ends up with four broken ribs and a fractured arm, but still.

Anyways.  That's my list! I'm excited to see how this format of NYRs works for me :)

Happy New Year!

~From Lily With Love~