New Year's and Resolutions

Rob wanted to take Mahdi out for dinner on his 23rd birthday, New Year's Day🎉 Mahdi chose Cheesecake Factory—yay!

That pretty much sums up our relationship

Apparently, we did nothing else of significance on New Year's Eve or Day. We didn't even do our vision board resolutions. But, it's March now, and I actually got mine done a few days ago. The rest of the family is up for next Family Home Evening, along with a Youtube Bollywood dance sess 🎉

Resolutions, 2018

1. Empathy = Love. Practice it. Don't try to fix everything.

2. Keep the Sabbath day holier (be on time to sacrament 😊, read your resolution books and work on your blog/journal, save social media and books/tv that are just for entertainment for the other 6 days.) Btw, listen to this quote by Elder Bruce R. McConkie: "It is in no sense an exaggeration, nor does it overstate the fact one wit, to say that any person who keeps the Sabbath according to the revealed pattern will be saved in the Celestial Kingdom." Whoa.

3. Eat more veggies and drink water like it's your job

4. Read: "Hearing the Voice of the Lord" by Gerald Lund, "Solve for Happy" by Mo Gawdat, "Book of Mormon Made Easier" by David Ridges with the family in the a.m., "Jesus the Christ" by James E. Talmage by Easter, Pearl of Great Price by Mother's Day, and Doctrine & Covenants by Pioneer Day.

5. Spend less $ on clothes and home decor

6. Express the good you see in others

7. Keep up on memorization of "The Living Christ"

8. Memorize your patriarchal blessing

9. Have more meaningful/purposeful monthly Sabbath fasts

10. Actively seek to do exactly what you came to earth to do (pray for it, cultivate your strengths, be open to opportunities)

11. Regular temple attendance, and with the boys

12. Regular exercise 3-4x/wk (not necessarily beast mode 😅)

13. Finish your blog-to-print books for 2016 and 2017

...so, we'll see how I do this year 😜😉

Also, I wanted to mention something I just heard—a new tradition I want to start next year for New Year's Eve/Day. Everyone sits in a circle with an unlit candle. Turn out the lights. One person shares one of their New Year's resolutions and lights their candle. Then they pass the lighter to the person next to them who shares one of their resolutions, and so on. And when everyone is done, all your faces are lit up!