I am one for goal setting. I love a good resolution. I thrive on list-making and checking those boxes.

Needless to say, I love this time of year…a New Year filled with fresh starts. But sometimes I think it gets to be a little too intense, or maybe I let myself get a little too intense about these sorts of things.

As I was sitting by the pool the other day with goals and lists running through my head (oh yeah, we’re in Kona soaking up the sun!) it was like a little voice whispered in my ear…

“Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

…huh. Maybe I do tend to be a little too hard on myself. I don’t always need to be measuring up to my own impossibly high standard. Who needs that, really? With all of the outside pressure to be a certain way or do a certain thing, maybe its important to give myself a little grace sometimes.

I don’t mean that I’m going to give up on dreaming. Dreams are how we get to the places we want to go.
But this year at the top of my resolution list I’m going to put a little reminder to take it a little easier on myself.
Lets see where that takes me…I bet it’ll be good.