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For my 2010 New Year's Resolution, I'm resolving to find more joy in my life by focusing on balance.
When you're done laughing at my insanely difficult New Year's Resolution, won't you join me in this challenge?
Like most moms I know, I struggle daily to maintain balance between my family, my marriage, and my personal interests, as well as my work and my household (which, for me, occur in the same location). I know it's finding a better balance between all these areas of my life that can bring me the most joy.
But I'm not going to lie. When my editors told me I had to come up with a New Year's Resolution and follow its progress, I dug my heels right in. I scoffed in my mind. No one's going to force me to do something that might make my life better! Wait... Huh?
I figured I'd try. Why not, right? I only have to try. I'm working on a plan for maintaining a more joyful balance, and I can tell you the goals and steps are small. My motto will be progress not perfection. There will be failures. However, if I learn one single minute new way to add more joy and balance into my life, then it'll be worth it, right?
Coming soon — my joy resources, my first teeny tiny list of attainable goals, and more.
Will you join me in this challenge to find joy through balance? Who's in?
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Comments 16
What a great resolution you have come with it! I think I will join you and will for sure be reading your ideas and your progress. I want to find joy....period! I am happy, don't get me wrong, I love my life and I love being a wife and a Mother but I have a job that I hate that I make decent money and a job that I love that I make almost nothing! YIKES! I really think if I can find a job I actually love, I will be on a much better path in life! Even if I don't find that dream job this year, I am going to work on that whole "love the one your with" theory (as far as jobs go).
By the way.... I love that picture you have with this! It made me smile!
I also would like to achieve balance, but how? Looking forward to your tips as you pursue this goal.
What a great resolution. I agree it's so hard to find a balance. It seems when you think you have some sort of balance, things tip one way or another and there goes that balance.
I think one way to find that balance to realize what is important in your life and what you have fun doing and try to eek out a few minutes to do just that.
I love to sew but I haven't had time in forever, but I'm going to find a way to sew for at least 30 minutes each week. Maybe by June I'll have one project done.
I am in! Like you, all of this things occur under this roof....Achiving joy & balance here is difficult. 2009 was a difficult year and a lot of joy was sucked out of it bc we lost my beloved FIL....nothing has been the same since. I want to find joy in the day to day things in my life. I have a blessed life & I know it, but....finding balance between all of these things has been something i have been working on since i started working from home. I am SOOOOO with you girl!
Im in. I decided to get more into football and sit around playing the wii fit and whatever my husband plays on it....I decided that i clean too much and not finding joy all the time....So i will start off by not worrying about house work so much....why????because it will be there tomorrow.....if your house is messy...its well lived in..lol thats my new motto. I dont mean to let your house go....but if your family is in the other room having fun and your worried that something didnt get done, the dishes can wait til after the kids go to bed...LIVE....LAUGH....LOVE.
Sounds good. Great actually. I'm in.
I would like to join you, I do not feel that I live a "balanced" life- I have 3 very active boys, and 1 college age daughter. 2 of my boys pretty much run circles around me...ha ha.
I am a stay at home Mom, and a Military Wife. My DH is currently deployed and won't be back with us until Next November. So I am alone, and trying my best to run the household, deal with the kids, the pets, and life in general. Time for myself?? That's a joke, right??! I would LOVE to go scrapbooking, but babysitters for 3 can get pretty pricey. My college age daughter is not always around, she lives at school and works near it as well. So we do not always get to see her. I need to balance my life, and my family, and I look forward to the challenge! Maybe it will boost my esteem a bit, to see that I CAN do this alone (I really feel as though I just can't and I want my DH to come home).
Mary H
I am in. I can not wait to read your ideas as well with the other mothers. I feel out of control right now in my life and I am just about to give up. I have so much going on that my energy level can not keep up with everything. I am excited I read your quest.
I would love to join you on your journey to a balanced life, for i need help in that area as well , struggle with work and family and trying to keep my house clean and clutter free.