Resolution Inspiration! What’s Yours This Year?
Posted December 31st, 2006 by Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerHave a New Year’s resolution to share? An inspiration for the next 365 days? *Share your resolution by clicking the blog title above or “Read full post” link below, then scroll down to the end of the blog text and Post a Comment.
Speaking of inspired, check out what two MomsRising members, Yvonne and Ken, are doing for their New Year’s resolution in the text below.
*A New Look for a New Year by Yvonne and Ken:
“At the end of every December, our family picks themes to represent our upcoming year. The theme is a way to help each of us focus on something we want more (or less) of in our lives. Last year Yvonne’s theme was “Start no new projects.” Ken’s was: “Better balance between time spent at work and time spent at home.” At the end of the year, we keep looking ahead and find something new to work towards. 2007 brings us the first unified theme since our marriage.
After seeing the Motherhood Manifesto DVD in December we both were inspired to get involved. Neither of us has spent much time in political activism beyond merely writing a check or signing a petition so this year we pledged to go from passive activism to full-time, every day, social change animals.
We will accomplish this by becoming human MomsRising t-shirt wearing billboards until paid family leave passes in our home state. Yep, we each will wear a MomsRising t-shirt every day, until a paid family leave bill is passed in Washington State.
If we are going to the gym, we fly our MomsRising ripped muscle Rosie. Off to work? MomsRising Rosie goes with us. In mid-January, when we are off to visit the kid’s great grandparents, we will be fitting into the Scottsdale Arizona social scene with our matching MomsRising Rosie. At the fancy holiday party for Ken’s work, guess who is getting a little bit of craft glitter for Yvonne’s outfit? Right again, Racy Rosie our MomsRising mascot.
Oh and just in case you’re wondering, the only caveat to our new resolution, is we will not be wearing a MomsRising Rosie for weddings or funerals. So, don’t die but do keep those wedding invites coming!
Happy New Year! — Yvonne and Ken”
We’ll keep you in the loop about Yvonne and Ken’s progress. Be sure to check out their regular blog postings on the MomsRising homepage, and we’ll also send you updates from time to time.
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December 31, 2006 at 7:33 pm by AnonymousBe more patient with my children.
Begin my novel, forget the self doubt and just start!
Meditate more!
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December 31, 2006 at 6:41 pm by AnonymousTo take the hooks out of myself and others and throw the “judgment” out. I also resolve to walk outside everyday …. regardless the weather … sweat and laugh each day.
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December 31, 2006 at 5:24 pm by AnonymousWhen the world moves from a patrilinical form of control to accepting equality as in the alpha and the omega as the standard of life, then we will begin to become truly enlightened. My resoulation is to help this come to pass.
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December 31, 2006 at 5:06 pm by AnonymousI am in the process of getting my teaching certificate. I love working with children and I am also looking for a career that is family-friendly! So my number 1 resolution is to find that teaching position and be in the classroom this fall, where I can hopefully make a positive difference in the lives of others and well as making my own better.
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December 31, 2006 at 4:52 pm by AnonymousTo stop eating animals and take more walks in the forest, my family will follow.
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December 31, 2006 at 3:50 pm by AnonymousI have been politically active all my life – I’m 78 now. Last year, I ran for congress – didn’t win but did manage to get a message out to a lot of people. I believe that the Democratic party holds more hope for people – you know, just plain, real people – and I support Howard Dean’s definition of the credo of the Democratic party: Love thy neighbor as thyself – and you don’t get to choose your neighbor. So, it is not a new resolution, just an even more determined resolve to support those activities of the Democratic party that help working people and working families. I can and will do this by bringing programs to my weekly lunch group (membership about 200; attendance about 50) that engages them in the battle against increasing poverty and for the programs that help families: an increase in the minimum wage; family leave; consumer credit reform; support the right of working people to organize; end corporate welfare; plug tax loopholes that favor the rich and do nothing for or harm working families.
My pledge is to make my life and my actions a force in making our America the America envisaged by the programs of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson and by the Constitution which says our government is of the people, by the people and for the people.
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December 31, 2006 at 3:48 pm by Anonymous- Dance with my children in the kitchen after breakfast at least once a week.
- Laugh – (real leg slapping laughter)
- Limit judgments of others
- Smile at strangers on my commute (they may think I’m crazy)
- Volunteer at the homeless shelter at least once this year
- Act silly
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December 31, 2006 at 3:36 pm by Anonymousis to come out of this stroke, with my arms and feet, IN TACT. They’re not, right now. It’s been almost 2 years. I’m a righty — so you know that the stroke hit my right side. Every day, I exercise — with the help of Dave, who is my friend — and lover. I give thanks for him!!
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December 31, 2006 at 3:09 pm by AnonymousNew Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
~ Anaïs Nin
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January 19, 2007 at 7:48 pm by AnonymousWho really now is engaged in the control of health? To mine it neglected the large pharmaceutical companies and the medical centers. There should be a centralized management WBR LeoP
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