Simplify and Enjoy

I've been thinking a lot about goals for the new year. What do I want to happen, where do I want to be, what do I want to accomplish?? I've written down my list and I really am going to work on them every day. I usually get discouraged when setting goals, because I feel like I'm setting my self up for disappointment. But I read a really, really simple statement recently and it finally hit me. In the October 2008 New Era and then again in the Brand New Year celebration video, Sister Elaine S. Dalton challenged the Youth to do 3 things. One of which was reading the Book of Mormon for 5 minutes per day, and then she said "If you miss a day, just start again." I don't know why, after all these years, that had never clicked. I always had the attitude that if I missed a day I hadn't met my goal and it was over. Duh! Just start again. So even though I've made a really good list of things to work on this year....and for life....I know that I'll slip up and it's ok because I can start again. After re-reading my list and thinking about the goals that I've set, I've also come to the conclusion that there are many areas of my life that I just need to simplify. I have a tendency to make things harder and more time consuming than they need to be. So at the top of my list I am writing the words "Simplify" and "EnJOY".