Reverb11 Day 28 – 31

Day 28    Forgiveness – What one thing do you need to forgive yourself for this year?

I have to forgive myself for my procrastination and laziness.  I could have achieved so much more this year if I just got started or in some cases pushed through the difficult bits.  There is nothing worse than knowing you are to blame for your failures and that you could have done better.

Day 29   Shaking Things Up – Looking towards 2012, what can you do to shake things up a little next year?

I don’t like spontaneity, I love planning things in advance.  In 2012, I am going to act on my impulses more often.  If I feel like doing something fun, I am going to do it and not over analyze everything.  It’s time to start having more fun and doing more things that I haven’t done before

Day 30    3 Wishes – If a genie could grant you 3 wishes for 2012, what would they be?  

1. To have enough money to enjoy my life and not to live from paycheck to paycheck
2. Happiness.  I want happiness in all it’s forms no matter how small or trivial it might seem to others
3. I want the strength to accomplish everything I want, to reach the goals I’ve set myself and to be the person I want to be.  I want to be able to make the difficult decisions with certainty and to make things work for me no matter how bad or hopeless they seem.

Day 31    Reflect – Take a moment to think back on your Reverb11 responses.  Have you learned anything?  What surprised you about this experience?  Which of your responses was your favourite?

Looking back over my Reverb11 posts, I am genuinely shocked about how negative and dark my year was and how few positive things I had to say about it.  I am also shocked that I made it through such a horrible year and that at the end of it, after reflection, I am trying to be positive and enthusiastic for the new year.

I think my most shocking, yet favourite response to Reverb11 was for Day 30, where I (the most materialistic person I know) wished for strength and happiness in stead of tons of Jimmy Choo’s and Louise Vuitton handbags (seriously, these items are on my all time life affirming wish list).  I guess it made me realise that I do actually know what is important in life, but I won’t mind doing it while being fabulously accesorised.

Reverb11 Day 7 – Forgiveness

Forgiveness – Who have you forgiven this year and what was the journey like that brought you to forgive them?

I’m not usually big on forgiveness and chances are if you hurt me in a big way, I will drop you like a hot potato and will most definitely not forgive you. I don’t even think forgiveness is really possible in the true sense of the word. I think that until we can truly forget, forgiveness is just a word.

Lucky for me, I didn’t have any dramatic thing done or happen to me where I needed to forgive someone this year.