Well, it’s here. 2021. It doesn’t feel much different. I’m currently sitting in a hotel room, masks are required in the lobbies, and the amenities are limited. Yet, something about this new year is especially hopeful – a longing for drastic change, for normalcy, for spark and innovation. I hope these will help inspire you to keep a running list of goals you have for this year.
How I Created my New Year’s Options
Instead of resolutions, I’m doing “options” for this year. These options are things I want to do but (as you’ll read) I’m holding all things loosely. I formed these with a running list on my phone, and then I naturally saw trends emerge (now the categories). These emerged because they are actually my core values. Once I categorized, I was able to really draw out more goals and dreams (it’s ok to dream, people!). Then I think about things that would be good for me, for others, or for my community.
Erin’s 2021 options
Faith
- Pray for more patience and selflessness – in life and in our marriage
- Read through the Bible in a year with Blake
- Finish both of Trillia Newbell’s bible studies
- Pray for doors to open to be a blessing – at home, in marriage, with our home and the things we have – for all the vendors I work with or all the guests that will come to our wedding, or the people I see doing the small things in life.
Need some inspiration? Keep reading “5 Ways to Grow Your Faith”
Wedding
- Host our wedding part 2?! Or let it roll – whatever happens happens.
- Stay at the Greystone Inn at Lake Toxaway for our honeymoon.
Peeping Bae’s new wedding ring! He’s taken!
Health
- Move every single day – break it down to monthly challenges, commit to go on a walk every night after dinner with Blake, foam roll and core on the lazy days while I watch TV
- Make healthy choices – it might be a salad one day, vegetable chicken soup the next, saving 1 sweet for dessert only (and if I eat it for breakfast… decaf tea with splenda for dessert later!) I don’t like having to restrictive of a mentality but for January I will be doing dry January just to kind of reset – my family drinks a lottttt of wine when we are together.,
Community
- Go support our friends on a trip! We normally cheer them on during their football season – but however it comes, just find a way in whatever way to support a group of friends.
- Be open and intentional with guests who are over for the weekend
Work
- Look for opportunities at work and complete 1 fellowship and 1 peer group with funders
- Launch Gems graciously – celebrating everyone and the community around me. Take opportunities to share my hope and my joy with others here.
Skills to Explore (inner Enneagram 7!)
- how to use my air fryer,
- How to use my instantpot before it blows up,
- Learn how people day trade
- launching my website and art projects.
- Go through my pile of craft projects I’ve swarn I can take on