Nana's Reality Check.

The cold hard reality of the new year has hit us.

That is my overly dramatic way of saying that you have probably found out how hard it is to keep up all of your New Years resolutions.

And I wanted to let you know that you aren't alone!

I have many resolutions and I know how hard it is to keep them up, but I wanted you to know how amazing the feeling is when you complete them.

Over the past sixteen years of my life I have probably only completed a handful of resolutions, and since none of them are that interesting, I haven't experienced the emotions of completing a great goal, but my Nana did.

My Nana quit smoking several years ago, because my younger cousin once told her, "Nana if you keep smoking how are you going to be able to come to my wedding in ten years?" (she was five at the time, so getting married in tens years wasn't really going to happen, but you get the point.)

That is what I like to call "Nana's reality check." She quit smoking the next year and she is happier than ever. I can see in her eyes that she has found this new joy in life in which she does spend thousands of dollars a year on cigarettes, a world where she can spend all day with her family without having to go take a smoke every hour.

That feeling of an amazing accomplishment that my Nana had is sort of what I am looking for in my New Years resolution. I want this feeling of over whelming pride. A moment in which I can brag, just for a day (because I hate when people brag unless they really deserve it), but all my friends will smile and nod at me bragging because they know how hard I have worked for it! That's what I want, and I know I have to work for it, but I'm just fine with it.

Now my Diamonds I will leave you with this piece of advice I always remind myself before I back out of something.

The world won't go around looking for you if your hiding. Put yourself out there and only good things will come in the very end.