Intergity is a lint roller at the ready

So what's it going to be this year? Organize everything? Lose an unreasonable amount of pounds? Go to the gym every single day this year? Become the picture of serenity?

Come on! I know its not just me who makes these ridiculous, unattainable resolutions year after year. The famous Einstein saying comes to mind: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing day after day and expecting different results."

It occurs to me there is no time like the present to put on my big girl underpants and stop waiting for someone to come around to wipe my nose and deal with my "things I don't know what to do with piles."

I've always wanted to be the kind of person who has a frozen lasagna in the freezer, ever at the ready, for unexpected guests or emergencies. I want to be the kind of person who has a lint roller. And uses it. Maybe even keep it handy instead of buried under 20 things in one of several junk drawers.

My goal this year is to figure out what being an adult means to me and then do it. For me, that plays in to living with integrity - being my best and favorite self.

The concept of being our best selves comes up for me a lot in my writing and conversations with close friends. I believe it is an ever-evolving process but if you aren't paying attention it seems easy to look over your shoulder in a decade and wonder what the hell happened.

So for me this year integrity starts with a lint roller. And with putting the caps back on things, getting a new role of toilet paper ready before I run out and picking my clothes up off the floor. More often. Let's not go overboard, right?