As I began considering the upcoming new year and new decade, I thought about my New Year resolutions. I am sure that many of you, as I do, make them but quickly tuck them away into forgotten memories.

So I decided to go in a different direction.

I started researching inspirational quotes which could in fact be the resolutions I live by this coming year. There were so many, it was difficult to choose!

A few that I found especially meaningful are listed below.

“Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.” –William James

“Believe that you can and you are halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Love yourself first and everything else falls in place.” –Lucille Ball

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” –Unknown

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandi

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’.” –Audrey Hepburn

“You do not find the happy life, you make it.” –Camilla Kimball

So, my resolution for 2020?

I plan to establish the right intentions so that I stay positive and optimistic regardless of the challenges the fates may throw at me. I am going to embrace what I can control and let go what I cannot. I plan to celebrate the joys of life whenever and wherever I can.

Your resolutions?