A theme for 2013

With a new year comes new beginnings, we hear it every year and I feel like our resolutions or our thoughts of a new beginning vanish before we even end February. School, work, kids, family, whatever may keep us busy slowly distracts us and before we know it the great plans we had for a new beginning are buried under a pile of grocery lists, homework assignments, bills, and whatever else may cover the buys desks of our daily lives. Now some people are the exception to the rule and conquer all the goals the set forth on the first of the year, me well I am no exception the that rule I very very rarely conquer my goals let alone even set them. I tried last year writing them on a very well decorated picture collage and taped it to my bathroom mirror so I would remember daily what I was working towards, needless to say it didn't work, while it stayed up for the entire year I don't even think I met one of the 6 goals I set for 2012. I read some where else, couldn't tell you where, about a theme for the new year. I don't remember reading anything in depth about it but about a week or so later I came across a quote on Pinterest about being unforgettable. Then all the pieces fell into place, instead of saying "My goal is to loose weight and get healthy. Or to learn spanish" (a failed one from last year). Why not just have a theme for the year, not a single goal you fight all year to meet then feel a slight pinch of disappointment on new year's eve when you notice those goals weren't met.

So my theme for 2013 is to be unforgettable. I am entering my final semester of school and then starting my first few months as a nurse, in hopefully the NICU or an ER in a children's hospital. I want to unforgettable in what I do, I want the people in my nursing program to remember me after I leave, I want faculty to refer to me in stories, students to remember the impact I had, inspire new students with my accomplishments. I want my fellow students in my class to remember me after we have all graduated and dispersed throughout the country.  I want the staff at my new job to be impressed with me, the patients and families to remember me as their nurse and the impact I left on their lives. I want to be remembered for whatever I do. So that is my theme for the year, I want to be remembered over the next year. I want to leave a legacy, not in the form of kids or a family but in my work and my dedication to what I love. So with that I say: "She who leaves a trail of glitter is never forgotten." Let me hear your plans, your theme, or what you want to do in 2013.