New Year's Resolutions...

So as the New Year approaches many of us are thinking about how to better ourselves in 2009, I was looking up some articles, about ideas on how to keep your New Years Resolutions, and found this great list of tips...the one that surprised me the most, was tell everyone about your resolutions, apparently the more people that know about your resolutions, the more likely you will find encouragement to keep them. So here they are...not my resolutions, the list of tips:
1) Aim Low... (So loosing 30 lbs is out of the question????)
2) Don't overload yourself (Does 20 different goals count as overloading?)
3) Tell everyone you know
4) Reward yourself
5) Wait until spring ("Sometimes the best way to accomplish a New Year’s resolution is to make it at a time of year of your choosing, rather than the one dictated by the calendar. May 1 is a good alternate date, since the change of season will neatly coincide with the change you’re hoping to accomplish in yourself").
So I think the blog could be a great way to announce to everyone what it is I am planning on doing, and better yet improving in 2009, but first I have to decide what to do???? Any ideas??? or success stories????
There are a few areas that are the obvious "needs improvement"
1) Spiritual Fitness
2) Physical Fitness
3) Mental Fitness
Some ideas that I have been toying with are:
Reading 5 Classics (Don Quijote, Les Miserables, Crime & Punishment, Dante's Inferno, Sense and Sensibility)
Excercising at least 3 times per week...but actually do it! ;)...that seems to be my monthly goal
Continue my Oil Painting from 2008
Work hard at family scripture study (that's more of a family goal...)
Better personal scripture study
Better FHEs
Read 5 artist's biographies (Picasso, Rembrandt,Dali, Goya, and someone more comtemporary...I need to start gaining more respect for comtemporary art!)
Loose 30 lbs.....oh wait....
Be a better mom...wait I have to do that for the next 130 years!!
Stop making so many lists
Make more to do lists....aka be more organized
Well I know many of you have made, and accomplished many good, and worthy goals, also if anyone is making New Years resolutions themselves, and might be interested in having a "Check up on me buddy for 2009" let me know.