Wow, out in Blogland there are a million New Year’s posts.  I am just loving reading them all.

Normally I have my resolution ready to go, and they are daily, seemingly small ones that add up to a great habit to cultivate.  I usually like something that can be done several times a day.  A brief history…

NYR 2007: Learn to type without looking at the keys – being in an office job gave me plenty of opportunity to stick with it and it also would really improve my productivity.  I did it and now I can type 70 – 80 wpm.  Check out this typing test I took to arrive at that number.

NYR 2008- 2009: Sit up straight.  Although I could argue that this is about back health, because I truly enforced sleeping on my back.  I have a sticky note on my computer monitor to remind me, and I move it around periodically so my eyes don’t glaze over it.  When I have better posture I feel slimmer, stronger, and more awake.  This, combined with the back sleeping has totally changed my back!  I don’t have knots in my muscles and a sore back every day.  It took me 2 tries, but I am declaring this one a success!

NYR 2010: Play with the kids every day.  Over the holidays and the second half of this year I kept noticing how much joy I really got from playtime with the kiddos.  I might have to refine the goal right now, but as it stands I will play, on the floor, with toys or colors and no TV, each day.  I want to refocus the time I have with the kids – I feel like our lives are so rushed and that a lot of time is wasted by putting a show on for the kids so they won’t “bother” us.  What are we in such a hurry to do that it can’t wait until they are in bed?  Watch more TV.  7:00 bedtime for the kids is early, and I don’t want my interactions with them to be short, snappy, and exasperated.  I could do with more playtime myself, it makes ME happy.  I’m just glad that I have kids so I get the opportunity to play with toys – heh heh. 

This will effectively limit the TV time for me, too, because I will delay the chores and tasks until after they are in bed.  I might need more afternoon coffees to make this work.

So, this posterous blog will serve as a chronicle for the goals of 2010.  Here’s to a new decade!