2010.

I will make 2010 the best year yet. I say this every year, and it never truly happens. Somewhere between the mundane day-to-day to-dos and the bigger things that stress me out and the few moments where I actually stop to live, I forget I am supposed to be having the Best Year Yet of my life. But not this year.

I am going to try and stress less in 2010. I need this stress to get things accomplished, but it can get out of hand. Especially since just about everything in the upcoming year will induce stress- college applications and decisions, mentoring project, school, and a million other things I do not even know about yet. So I will try to stop myself, take a deep breath and work to get things accomplished rather than panic.

Secondly, I am going to try to simply enjoy life. This time next year, my days in public school will be coming to an end and a whole new life will be right around the corner. So I want to appreciate everything that is going on right now. To often in life I look forward to the future, and suddenly I realize that this time waiting for the future IS my life. So I will try to live in the moment.

This year really will be the best. As a good friend of mine, Kam Farley, and I decided during our summer nights in Marco Island that junior year would be great, we also decided recently that 2010 would own. So simply because of that, it will.