Happy New Year! Really?
Or, is it just another year with the same old, same old?
Some of us may need a refresher on the joy that can be found in the “new.” It’s so easy to become settled in our routines and let one year blend into the next. Want some simple ways to embrace the new? Try MELT, an acronym for a four point plan to put the “happy” into the new year.
While this plan won’t melt away pounds or years, it can melt away hum drums. And what better time to MELT than the slower-paced winter season?
Here are a few ideas to get the juices flowing:
MAKE SOMETHING OLD INTO SOMETHING NEW
A new coat of paint on most anything does wonders
Clean tarnished jewelry to a shiny sparkle
Make a quilt from old fabric scraps
ESTABLISH A NEW ROUTINE
Eat an apple a day
Enroll in a weekly water aerobics class
Walk a mile a day
Plan a weekly date night with your spouse
Wake-up an hour early to ________
Stay up and hour later to _________
LET GO OF THE OLD FOR SOMETHING NEW
Clothes—too small or too big
Clutter
Grudges
Things you haven’t used in two years
TRY OR LEARN SOMETHING NEW
A new recipe, (there’s plenty tempting us in YVLM)
Zumba—may need to google first
Sudoku, knitting, wood-carving
A foreign language
Guitar
Facebook, Twitter, etc.
A new book by a new author (like, The Help by Kathryn Stockett)
Or, write your own book, poem or song
And then there are always beginner watercolor classes :)
Whatever you choose, Melt away the same old same old and make 2012 a happy one!
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