New Years Resolutions: 2012

It's never to late to pen a New Year's Resolution or two.  Let's do a quick examination of conscience to see what areas of life may need tweaking.

• Health:  Have you received some cautionary advice from your doctor?  Make these changes or else?  Have you felt guilty about the foods you ate over the holiday?  Are you burning more calories than you are consuming?
• Family:  Have you enjoyed the extra time with your family over the holidays?  Can you schedule more family time into your daily life?  Are you devoting too much of your free-time to the computer or TV instead of your kids?
• Financials:  Do you need to make serious financial changes in 2012 to get ahead?  Can you stretch your comfort zone to see what you can do without?  Do you need to get a plan to put more money into savings?
• Education:  Do you need to challenge yourself to learn a new skill?  Should you begin reading?  What can you do to make yourself more educated?
• Relationships:  Do you need to make more time for your friends (or less)?  Can you connect on a deeper level with your spouse?  Has your spiritual relationship been suffering?

I pose the same questions to you that I pondered myself.  I came up with a goal for each of these categories.  I tried to make it attainable as well as worthwhile.  I will try to remind myself that my self-imposed goals were designed to make me a better person, not to torture myself.