I wanted to write this yesterday. But I procrastinated. So I’m writing it today. I’m posting publicly so you can hold me accountable if you see me slipping. 🙂 Happy new year!
- Stop procrastinating, especially when it comes to writing and posting.
- Not think about my kids too much.
- Become a better parent.
- Study Jesus.
- Get a better grasp of Islam.
- Become more decisive.
- Become a much better writer.
- Try to finally figure out love.
- Not care what intellectuals think about my writing because the audience I’m trying to reach is everyday normal people, not academics.
- Be more vulnerable with my emotions even if this includes crying.
- Write more honestly about what I truly think and feel with out fear of what people will think, especially my Evangelical Christian friends.
- Learn Arabic and improve my Spanish and French.
- Resume my commitment to memorizing large portions of text: quotation, book excerpts, parts of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- Study the Ottoman Empire.
- Replace 10 pounds of fat with 10 pounds of muscle.
- Punish my body in the hottest yoga studios and on the steepest hills.
- Listen better.
- Begin video posts even though I don’t have the technology to make them professional.
- Become less tolerant of bigotry, prejudice and xenophobia, especially when I see it in people who claim to be Christian.
- Launch The Christian Muslim Alliance to help (Christians especially) love and understand each other.
- Spend more time helping the homeless.
- Be more of a giver and less of a taker.
- Learn to be selfish because caring for myself isn’t easy.
- Become politically active in the 2016 presidential election.
- Attend synagogue with Elliot.
- Attend Mosque.
- Spend 10 days somewhere on the Italian coast this summer, alone, writing.
- Be kinder to myself.
- Better my understanding of US history.
- Laugh more.
- Become more of who I am and less of want society seems to want me to be.