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I happened upon a CD called Becoming the Best Version of Yourself by Matthew Kelly recently. It was quite timely because on the audio recording, Matthew speaks about the season of Advent, preparing for Christmas, and planning for self improvement in the coming new year. While the CD definitely has a Christian bent to it, I believe that anyone can benefit from his suggestions.

New Years Resolutions You Can Keep

I always have trouble keeping New Year’s resolutions for self improvement, often because mine are overly complicated or overly optimistic in what can be accomplished. Matthew Kelly has four simple suggestions for improvement in these areas of successful living: body, mind, relationships, & spirit. He recommends setting a goal to:

1. Exercise once a week
2. Read 10 minutes a day
3. Have a date for spending carefree timelessness once a month with the person you love.
4. Write one thing each week in a journal that will help you become the best version of yourself.

Honestly, I have tried most of these before but something usually interrupts my enthusiasm for keeping them going. What was different about Kelly’s approach is his emphasis on the Advent and Christmas seasons. There is a renewal that can happen. The season is designed to shake us and wake us up.

I know each year by mid-November, I am always feeling drained and eager for the fall semester to end. I don’t know if it is the weather, the changing of the seasons, or just simply a part of my profession, looking back at what I had hoped to accomplish with the classes I teach, and noticing that things rarely go as well as I hoped and planned they would.

This year was a little different for me because I found this little CD, and was a little more focused on the reason for the season. I was a little more aware, a little more focused on others, and a little less eager to blame others for things that went wrong. I’m pretty excited to learn that Matthew Kelly is scheduled to be in Kansas next February. Hopefully it will work out for me to go hear him speak, since his message has impacted me in such a positive way this year. And hopefully I can keep the New Year’s Resolutions that he recommends.

I’m really looking forward to 2009. This year was such an amazing year, with everything I have learned and started to apply; I expect next year to be even better! This blog for instance, I started last spring and haven’t lost interest yet in keeping it going. There is always something interesting to share, or just something I’ve been thinking about. Helping with my wife’s new home based business has also been exciting. There’s something about actually applying some of the technologies that I teach that makes me feel like I’m staying relevant.

Thank You!

I want to thank each and every one of you who take time to drop by and visit this little project of mine. I told myself I would do this, even if it were for my own personal benefit & no one else, however it is certainly nice to see that people come by from time to time to check out what I’m doing here.

Thanks and Happy New Year to you all!

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