Happy New Year!

I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas and an exciting start to 2009! I love the New Year!!! If you have followed my blog for any time you've probably figured out that I am Type A personality (no kidding, right?!) so setting goals for a new year is right up my alley. Check lists and to-do's are enough to make me giddy. :) Last year I even posted my 2008 resolutions divided into neat categories: physical, emotional, spiritual and mental.

In the past weeks as I have thought about and prayed for God to direct me in this new year I have had one recurring thought...I am not to set goals for 2009 that read like yet another to-do list. Heaven knows I have enough of those! I've had the sense this year that instead of typical resolutions God has given me a word...heart. I am resolved this year to ask God each day how my heart aligns with His. That's it. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? But for me it will be a huge challenge.

I am a goal-setting, self-motivated, go-getter type of gal and very independent to boot. Living life for an "audience of One" has always been an objective of mine and something I greatly admire in others. Yet for me I too often stumble over my own self-sufficiency to make this a reality in my own life. And throw in the fact that I am a typical female firstborn people-pleaser further complicates the matter.

How's that for putting it out there? I'm currently feeling a little vulnerable being so brutally honest. :) It's so much easier to post the pretty stuff, isn't it?

So what are your goals for 2009?