Happy New Year! I’m back to blogging!

Hey guys! I hope everyone had a fabulous New Years, and holiday season… Mine was awesome.

By the time New Years eve rolled around, I was completely socialed-out, so Barry and I chose to share the evening with another 2 couples, rather than head out for a larger party (as much as we wanted to be with a big group of our friends, I just wasn’t in the headspace to be much fun in that setting).

The evening turned out perfect… We played Dominoes, (and promptly bought our own set the next day because it was so much fun) and poker with Barb and Steve, and only consumed a couple of glasses of wine for the evening. That said, we were enjoying ourselves so much that we stayed until 3:30 in the morning. Thanks guys! Good times.

On the topic of New Years resolutions… I don’t have many. As you all know, I’ve been working with my super-star personal coach Jennifer Priest, and I’m getting things in order to do some goal setting for short term and long term accomplishments with Barry. Our last call was of a more personal nature, so I can’t really share the details here, so instead, I’ll talk about some of my goals for this year:

– Find more time for a close-knit group of friends. I’ve been fairly stand-offish this past year, as I’ve been through a huge amount of change, as well as creating a new foundation for a wonderful and special relationship with my guy. Now that we have that, I look forward to spending some quality time with the special and dear friends in my life.

– Support Barry’s job search in any way I can. He’s got a lot of opportunities, but some are definitely better than others, looking at the big picture. Even if I can be nothing more than an ear, I want to be there as much as I can for him during this time of transition.

– Expand my knowledge on my own career front. I’m already doing this, but I’ve put my studying on hold during the holiday season. It’s time I get back to it.

– Set personal goals with Barry. I’m still sorting this out with Jennifer, and I have a feeling my call with her tonight will be primarily on this subject. I’m looking forward to getting some solid and attainable things set up for us both to focus on. I’m referring to things like, where would we ideally like to live? What does that home look like? What kind of salary do we each want to be working towards? How are we going to get there? You get the picture.

Bottom line — These aren’t really New Years resolutions, but rather setting a path to follow, even if loosely, so we can find success the way we both define it.

How was your holiday season and New Years celebrations?

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Jennifer Priest is a personal coach, facilitating creative solutions, inspiring motivation and creating accountability in clients’ personal and professional lives. More about Jennifer is available at her site here.