We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and
its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
It's a new year and a new decade and such an occasion calls for a little something more than just your average, ordinary New Years Resolution. Last year may have been a little tough or obnoxious or just plain boring for some people and the typical "I want to get in shape" goal just wasn't going to cut it for us this year. Let's face it: the average resolution is just doomed for failure and a crazed binge on an entire carton of Moose Tracks Ice Cream sometime in the middle of the month (not that I've EVER done that... ahem).
No, 2010 needs to be epic. It needs to be special. It needs to be FUN.
So a couple of friends and I have christened The 2010 Project. We briefly considered doing two-thousand and ten things throughout the year... Actually, I lie. We never seriously considered that. We are NOT that ambitious. The much more reasonable number was always ten. Ten things. Ten things that we each wanted to do, participate in or accomplish.
In the coming weeks and months the three of us will be posting about our year of adventure at The 2010 Project Blog We can't wait to see what this year has in store for us, where our lists will take us and how the back end of twelve months will find us changed. Here's to living determined, risky, creative, unexpected and full lives in 2010.
My List of Ten Things in 2010
1. Submit a piece of writing for publication
2. Learn three new things
3. Get a passport and use it
4. Take a class
5. Get a Tattoo
6. Wear a bikini this summer
7. Volunteer somewhere
8. Sing Karaoke
9. Read Time Magazine's Top Ten Novel List
10. Make a new friend
