As 2013 comes to an end, thoughts about accomplishment begin to dance all over my mind. My thoughts continued to dance as if I was sashaying on the beach to a hot reggae song but then I immediately got somber. Reality set in that no I didn’t accomplish this on my list and not that either.

But as soon as the music returned to my thoughts and the imaginary water splashed up against the shore I remembered that the number of things that I didn’t accomplish is just about up there with what I did accomplish. After this realization, life was good again. My hips began to sway with the music that only I could hear and my glass was immediately half full again.

You see I fight hard against my glass is ½ empty personality traits that I inherited from my father. Why couldn’t he have given more skills in Accounting which I could have really used those skills in grad school? Or why couldn’t he teach me to hit a baseball instead of me striking every time I try to play softball? Now that would have saved me a lot of embarrassing moments in school. Or he could have taught me exactly what a metallurgical engineer did because every time someone asks what my father did I can’t explain it. Through all of this, the reality is that I have to make me better. It’s my job now not his.

So my goal this year is to sip on life in a glass that’s ½ full and figure out how I am going to get it totally full. Goals are meant to motivate us not weigh us down. Just something to think about as you prepare to be even better, wiser and driven this year!

Kim Turner