my peek into 2012

Obviously this is the time to be creating New Year's resolutions, but instead of creating resolutions may I present my New Years Manifesto. Although a manifesto is generally thought of as being a political thing, it can also be a deceleration of life-stance. So here is my New Years Manifesto, what is most important in my life and how I plan on committing to it and living it.

This year has the potential to be the best one yet, and since I am young and 20 and ready to seize the world, why shouldn't it be? You may recall that I previously established my new motto as "be bold," but instead of changing that up and moving in a new direction, I think I am only getting started here. Spending half my year abroad only gives me the chance to grab on to life in a whole new way and to branch out as I have never experienced. 

I want to try everything this year and let no opportunities get away from me.

 I want to take control of a clear path in my life and face what is up ahead of me prepared and emboldened.

 I want to grow closer to my Savior Jesus Christ, who has gotten my this far in my life, and let Him and everyone else know that I love Him through every action I take. 

I want to start tearing through my Life List (I'll share this with you soon) so fast that I'm taking away from it faster than I can add to it.

I want to live so that my passion for life and exploration shines out from me.

I want to discover, and adventure, and play, and learn, and teach, and grow, and run, and blast to potentials that I never thought possible.

I want to not put limitations on myself.

I want to be the best and brightest. 

Stick with me this year as I try to enact these things in my life, and as I try to blaze a new path for myself through studying in Paris, working with the leprosy afflicted in India, and bust through my classes at BYU. 

peace. love. and boldness.