New Year's Mission Statements

Second week of a brand new year. To quote me and my boss, “This year has pretty much sucked so far.”

To be fair – you’d think it suck too if you spent your whole day in front of a computer and on the phone with people who would know the on button from their belly button. And these people usually own their own business and handle very large transactions of money.

How they figure out how to dial the phone is really beyond me. And my Mom wants to know why I’m not “successful” like these people?

Anyway – due to the massive pile-up of work – I neglected to take a moment (Read: I was being lazy and gave myself and extra week of mental loafing) and create my resolutions list. I know you cynics out there are going “Resolutions are for SUCKAS!” Well, I can agree. Which is why I believe in New Year’s Mission Statements?

Who wants to make a resolution when we all know that we’re going to break it by February? Making statements just seems more moving to me. It’s not what I’m going to TRY and do this year…it’s what I WANT to do with my year.

Plus, I don’t know about you…they’re a lot more fun to write.

LILY’S RESOLUTIONS FOR 2007

1. I will define my beauty with my personality…not my waist size.
2. I will stop listening to the loud squawking sound that is Rosie O’Donnell. She WANTS you to fall into her trap of caring about stuff that’s she has no business talking about.
3. I will be nicer to my husband. He is a wonderful person and I’m way too hard on him…even though he starts it most of the time.
4. I will go to more baseball games.
5. I will have more MGF staff meetings with Orchid and BrownSuga…we do not talk to each other enough anymore.
6. I will get back into reading one or two books a month – woman can not be informed on Glamour and Lucky magazine alone.
7. I will not diet. I will be more mindful of what I eat. I will not feel guilty for eating that cream puff after my garden salad.
8. I will not compromise myself for anyone.
9. I will try and convince myself I don’t need that huge Coach purse I’ve been eyeing since June. But this will be difficult…it’s COACH.
10. I will not feel guilty for other people’s problems. Everyone will either thrive or hang themselves.

Here goes nothing! Good luck this year to Resolution Makers and Mission Statement Believers alike!