2014, lets go!

 During my junior year at Salve Regina University, the Dalai Lama came to speak to the college community. And the 1 thing that stuck out, that I have remembered since, is his comment about world peace. A student submitted a question about how do we obtain world peace, and after he chuckled, he explained that we really need to work on ourselves before we can work on the world, and that by working on our own happiness, then the rest falls into place. I believe that's true on so many levels. I consider myself a fairly positive/upbeat person. Sure, everyone has their bad days, and over the last 2-4 years I have had more bad days than I thought were imaginable, BUT I always manage to keep going, and I TRY to look on the bright side.  
Often times in November, people start posting comments on facebook about things they are thankful for. And I think its a great trend, but why not the rest of the year? I think it's something that we should all at least think about (if not publicly announce) every day. It would make a lot of people a lot happier!

So although I avoid the term "resolution," I am giving myself a goal for 2014. Every day I will come up with something that makes me happy. It could be something I am thankful for, something I am grateful for, something that makes me smile etc. And I will try to get a picture to go along with it. I will say right now, there is a good chance I might not make a blog entry EVERY single day, but I will at least think about the goal, and have something for each day. So at the end of 365 days from now... I will have a record and something to remind me of all the wonderful parts of my life!!