A Letter to MySelf

A letter to myself, shared with anyone who should happen across it.

Dear Self,

I am writing to you to apologize. You've felt overwhelmed with work and relationships, new promises and old habits. You've set goal after goal after goal about how to be a good person, a healthy person, or a successful person. And goal after goal you falter, crushed by the weight of your own pressure, your nearly successful expectations. I am writing to remind you sincerely that you are a good person, you are healthy, and you are successful. You must remember that despite the potential to improve, YOU ARE ENOUGH! You meet the standards that you have ingrained into your values and daily habits. That standard, the basic nature of who you are is a good person, healthy, and successful. While you always maintain the potential to soar far beyond what you've already become, should you remain as you are, you would find no failure, no fault.

Self, I challenge you to challenge yourself, while always remembering that you have nowhere to go but up. Your goals, whether achieved or missed, are accomplishments in themselves if only for attempting them. "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars!" Now, go full force and try your best. Find triumph in even the smallest of accomplishments and find assurance in your failures for even they are successes in themselves.

My birthday is in April so... now, for my goals for my 23rd year:
1. To write daily in blog, journal, or napkin.
       - Begin by joining Camp NanoWriMo and try to write something worthwhile.
2. To exercise 5 times a week including at least 3 cardio workouts per week.
3. Read a book a month.
4. Reduce candy intake to 1 serving (realistically 3 servings) per day.
5. Reduce food intake to a 2,000 cal diet.
6. Take risks, adventures, and find particular joy in life on a weekly basis. (thinking hiking and making new friends).
7. Find strength and success in your failures. Pick yourself  up keep working.