Hey everyone and welcome to this episode of the Happy Hour Podcast. I'm your host Gretchen Gehrity

and I feel nervous right now recording since I haven't recorded for my podcast in a minute.

It literally has been almost a month since my last episode. I can't believe it this last month has flown by and pretty much I just took off the end of December.

I didn't post because I've been posting it every other week if you guys didn't know that. I just took off one episode.

I figured it was just a good time because it would have gone up when Christmas Eve Eve. I believe the day the Friday that it would have gone up.

I was like, you know what? Everyone should not listen to my episode. They should be spending time with their family and friends anyway.

That's exactly what I want to be doing. Yes, that's why I decided that. It feels weird recording right now. I'm out of the swing of things.

It's so nice to be back. I already felt my mood just boosting in the first minute of me recording here.

Is that the right phrase? This is just a mood boost because it always puts me in a good mood recording.

I feel like we're hanging out chat chatting. Afterwards, I know I'm just going to be a ball of energy flying around my apartment.

Which is exactly what I need since this place is a little bit of a train rack.

But you know, we have a new year of, I don't know what the word I'm trying to say. I have some new years cleaning coming up.

I guess you could say for my apartment sense, I have been away so much. It's so good to be back after the hustle and bustle of the holidays in such.

I'm sure you can tell by the title of this episode that it's just going to be my 2023 goals in resolutions, if you will.

I guess more so goals, like it really is my list of goals that I made. I actually googled for you guys the definition of resolution.

I think it's kind of different than what I thought in my head because resolution to me is always seemed like a little bit of a negative connotation.

I hear my new years resolutions and I have to stick to them. These are the bad habits that I'm getting rid of in my life. I don't know if anyone else thinks it but that way.

I always thought that resolution meant something that you kind of have to subtract from your life, take away, something like an issue that you have to resolve.

That's what I really thought that it stemmed from. But it said that resolution, when I googled the definition, it says resolution is a firm decision to do or not to do something.

I'm like, okay, firm decision to do something could be a positive thing and to not do something bad is also positive as well.

I don't know, resolution to me always just seems like something that is broken. There's not a high success rate there across the board and it just seemed kind of negative.

So I just think of it as like goals that I would love to achieve and even if I don't make it to that exact goal at least along the way the journey seems like it would be worthwhile and a good thing for me overall.

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