Project 365

We all decide about December 26th to January 1st that something needs changing in our life. Maybe it's weight loss, maybe the idea of making healthy choices, like quit smoking. What ever the resolution we make it, and vow to continue for the entire year or until....success! Maybe we can define success in any number of ways! What is your way of determining if you have been successful?





Success can be measured in so many ways that we forget that life happens in the smallest of increments and each day is a success even if we are looking at the glass as half-empty.



I started a project of taking photos everyday for each of 365 days of 2010, placing them on Flickr so that I was accountable for doing something each day. I had an epiphany in the last few days that if I do not take a photo each day or work on this blog each day that I am still successful. I am not perfect, nor do I need to be.



I am blessed with so many wonderful children and friends that care about me. A long time ago when my daughter Brandie was about a year old. We had some friends who did not have children. They were waiting to have children until they owned their house, owned a boat, owned a fancy-schmancy car, had 100,000 in the bank, etc.



The male friend asked us to go out to the beach... I had not been to a beach in a few years due to my weight and quite frankly...FAT! I remember his words as we were driving to our parking place at of all places... Huntington Beach in California. "What do you care if these people like you, think your too fat, or they judge you in any way? You will never see them again." I sat there contemplating his words, actually trying not to cry because of the shame I felt, I was FAT.



I went to the beach that day took off my Mumu and played in the ocean like a kid. I know he doesn't know what an impact he made on me that day. I can't even remember his or her name...I don't know if they even had children, or if they divorced. What I do know is I don't have to take a photo 365 days this year, I don't have to blog everyday, I don't have to settle for people in my life that make me feel bad.



What I do HAVE to do is be happy for the blessing in my life, follow where my heart takes me, being true to ME 365 days a year!