New Year Re-solutions for 2017

I look forward and yearn for a better year. Anything would be better than what I have gone through in 2016...but I want 2017 to be more "me" focused. Not to be selfish, but I am at a crossroads...call it a mid-life crisis if you will, but never the less, I am here. I feel like I have lost something. Something I have had in me all my life and it is somehow missing. Not sure of my purpose, my goals, my sense of direction. I need to REdirect and REfocus and REgroup. Oddly, the word "resolutions" that we toy with every time each new year is REsolutions.

Take all the RE's away and you have DIRECT, FOCUS, GROUP, and SOLUTION.

I am going to DIRECT my life in a better direction. I have already stated that I feel like I have taken a turn for the better in regards to my professional career. It is not about a better professional life. But I miss theater and just beung creative in whatever capacity that comes in. I have set a tone of learning the ropes of the Forensics program at Bentonville for the 2016-2017 year and not place focus on my own acting/directing adventures to give myself the chance to grow and learn about the workings of the program I inherited. However at some point I need to figure out how to find that creative outlet I yearn for. I am going to have to figure out how to juggle this passion with the Bentonville schedule.

I look forward to directing "Sweet Charity" at the theater that holds my heart. Yes, I am in a different part of the state, but I am so thankful that they have given me this opportunity and are willing to work with me on this adventure.

Or perhaps I am headed in a new creative, artistic direction? Perhaps I need to branch out to something different artistically and be open to it?

I am going to need to find a new FOCUS on my life. And it HAS TO BE POSITIVE. I am not sure what this area has in store...more to come...and thank GOD I have folks in my life able and willing to help me find this course path.

I need, or let me rephrase this, we (Justin and I) need to find our GROUP up here. That has been one of the hurdles we have been dealt with the last six months of 2016. Along with all of the "NEW JOB" hurdles, and the death of my mother, and moving, and shift that has occurred in our lives, we are in the process of trying to find our GROUP. We are blessed that some of the friends we had when we first started dating have life courses that brought them back to NW Arkansas at the same time we made the move...amazing how life does that, huh? But hopefully 2017 will bring more hangouts, more dinners, more wine/ craft beer with a group of friends, building a stronger support group for each other.

So the SOLUTION for 2017...
Find Purpose.
Pray for a softer year because 2016 was so difficult and hard!
Share and Spread LOVE.
Surround myself with Positivity and be Kinder to myself.

And for the first time in my resolution setting life...I feel like I can get these accomplished.