Goals?

It’s January First, and people are asking what are your goals for this year? After coming out of 2020, I have some pretty basic goals. Hug my friends, drinks in person with my coworkers, continued time with my family. Basic.

As I look back at 2020 not everything was bad. It was a shift. I really like working from home. Yes, I miss my co – workers and the relationships that are built being in a cubicle with them 8 hours a day, but the being at home is one thing about 2020 I found I really liked.

Getting creative with ways to see friends. I really miss my friends and just hanging out with them. No grabbing a coffee or going for a walk around the lake. It’s not that we couldn’t, we could and we did just not like we have in years past. But zoom and Facebook allowed for virtual visits in between.

The other thing that I got creative with in 2020 was my fitness. Zoom workouts became a new way of strength training for me. I found myself getting stronger without the help of the all of the machines at the gym. The other thing that happened is I found my running game again. From November through December I logged 89 running miles. If you would have asked me in January what my goal was, it was to run a mile pain free, 89 miles pain free is a dream.

2020 also taught me not to take anything for granted from toilet paper to relationships. I worked in an ER for 5 years I know better than to take relationships for granted but we do, we’re human we just figure that person is going to be around forever. I got to the point I no longer listened to the news for the first 5 minutes because I couldn’t stand to hear the number of people sick and or dead from Covid. My brain and heart craved positive thoughts.

Positive thoughts and intentions became a focus. Embrace the world where you are at. Dance like no one is watching. Sing with abandonment, turn the volume up on your current favorite song, hit repeat when your favorite song from high school comes on. Find the joy in the small stuff.

So over the next week when someone asks me what my goals are for 2021. Simple. Embrace it.

Until next time,

Juli