Mid-Week Mini-Challenge
Kiss 2009 Good-Bye!
I’ll even add a hot sparkle for emphasis
As 2009 lumbers on out of here, taking the first decade of the new century with it, we thought this would be a great opportunity to bid the year farewell. Why? Looking back and letting go allows us to make room for new and better things to enter our lives.
We know how hard women can be on themselves, and we fat girls can sometimes be even more brutal in our self-talk. So today we invite you to use the comments to kiss off whatever didn’t serve you in 2009. I’ll post in the comments, too. Ready? Set? Pucker up!
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Here’s what I’d like to kiss good-bye for 2009: failing to appreciate my beauty, inside and out. I realized some of my very favorite photos of me were taken when I was ridiculously happy – recently while sledding with my kids and on Tee’s wedding day are two images that come to mind. You can’t bottle that and inject it between your brows, girls! Inner beauty is ageless and weightless.
Next!
I’m definitely kissing off the habit I fell into this year of letting the lives and choices of others have such a heavy impact on mine that it compromises my ability to reach my own goals.
I’m now digging out from under the effects of that from myriad angles. Never again!
We lost a friend to Melanoma Cancer in March…. so I am going to tell Cancer to KISS OFF! It’s nothing I had any control of or anything I did/didn’t do in 2009 but it had a huge impact on me.
I’m kissing off the very bad habit of wasting time. Everything from excessive worrying to reading gossip websites steals hours that I’ll never get back. It’s in my power to change these habits and, by gosh, I’m going to do it. 2010 will be the year of taking back my time. I can’t wait!
Ahhhh 2009… can’t say I’ll miss you much.
I’ll be kissing goodbye the all-consuming work mentality (along with a generous side of lazy) and welcoming in more of the things that really matter in life… time with the people I love, time doing the things I enjoy, and time sharpening skills that I keep making excuses for not making time for!
Are you ready for me, 2010???
I’m giving the kiss-off to severe depression. And along with it my total self-loathing. In 2010 I want to rediscover the awesomeness inside me.
I’m kissing off worrying about my kids so much and being so critical of my parenting. I want to enjoy them more and trust that what I have taught them is ultimately going to prevail . I also want to kiss off being so task driven that I don’t appreciate the things that really matter. Yay 2010.
Bravo, ladies. Cheers to the successful kissing-off of ALL of these things.
Hi,
I would like to kiss-off – my insecurities and my need to compare to others, as well as the pain and resentment I continued to feel until late Summer about my mom’s passing in March 2007.
I had a great holiday and low-key birthday in December and I look forward (which I haven’t said in a long time) to this new year.
Thank you for your wonderful postings and pictures here!
Marcia, thanks so much for chiming in (and making me all teary). I hope 2010 knocks your socks off.
I want to kiss-off comparing myself to my thin pictures. I also want to kiss-off listening to other people’s opinions about how my vintage clothes look costumey. I will kiss-off dressing to fit in and will only dress to please my self!
I’m giving the big, wet kiss-off to letting my fear of failure dictate the choices I make in my life. Never again will I stay in a relationship because I’m scared that I’ll be alone forever, even though I know I don’t want to be with my current partner . . . never again will I refuse to try hot yoga because I’m afraid my sweaty self will receive gawks and scorn . . . never again will I be too afraid to be me.
I’d like to give a big – FAT- juicy kiss my insecurities! This year I will smile at the camera, beleive that I am pretty and be okay with who I am. Guess what else? All of the ones that did me wrong…guess what they can KISS?!
I’m going to stop making excuses about why I can’t do all the things I want to do and just do them! I’m also going to start focusing on my successes instead of my failures. Time to be positive!