What's your 2023 New Year's resolution?

I dont do resolutions. Trying to be a better person in all manners--year round.

I want to achieve better health by stop smoking!

2023 Resolution is to let go and let God. Being free from my negative thoughts allowing me to be a servant of God.

My new year's resolution is to get my mother moved in to an independent living community (already selected) and to keep my mental health in check while doing so!

Try and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

In 2023 I want to travel more often with my son so we have tons of trips planned already. We’re excited to explore and just experience life.

To be comfortable in all aspects of life.

Spend more time with family and friends, since the loss of my husband.

Be more forgiving to myself for choosing to leave the ARNG in February 2023. I did 9 years on Guam and 3 in Florida. I deployed, and volunteered for so many different missions, and orders during my 12 years. I had even recently joined the 18-month OCS program one year ago and did it for several months while working on my SEC + certification to get to a better GS-level federal job but realized OCS just wasn't what I wanted to pursue. Completed SEC + CERT, got a remote job and even got married first time in June 2022 who is an amazingly supportive single-father of an eight-year-old daughter. I told myself, the day I become a mother, I would not allow myself to work a 9 hour shift plus the commuting between and tend to a child's needs and the step-daughter and all else. Being a wife, mother, home-maker and trying to start my own bakery down the road is enough in itself for me to handle. We are expecting our baby girl in March 2023 and I've been filled with personal guilt for quitting OCS, the service and my fairly new federal position. My husband makes what I made "only" when on Active duty, in a month and he is remote IT instructing so its a sweet deal, and I'm so thankful he loves it and is glad I'm home. I am blessed to have what I have and we are working to pay off all our personal debts (his truck, my Jeep and other loans he accumulated being a single-father). All so we can cover "CLOSING COST" on a home hopefully soon this next coming year.
Food has become quite the cost down here in Florida too and due to COVID, I do not see much of Food Banks anymore because you know even us Vets, we too can use the help of free food and things. We ARNG struggle just as any non-military person would financially. I just want to do the best at eating properly for the baby and feeding properly for when the baby is born. The husband loves chicken thigh and air-fried wings and it's cheap but I need IRON, and meat can be expensive, let alone cooking two different meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to meet his, the daughters and my needs. I love what I do. it's like personal chef duties. Lol

But again to be healthy without too much stress in my third trimester right now means so much to me for I have seen too many of my fellow sisters who have either eaten junk, or haven't had enough to eat who had complications during trimesters or they just had no supportive partner and or family around to help. I'm grateful for what I have and can only remain to look at the POSITIVE side and trust God more in 2023. I want to help even more than I did in 2022. We have younger females who are expecting in my unit ,the unit I'll be leaving. who I've tried to be the best example to during their trimesters. I am the MRT rep for my unit and I do ASIP instructing to help for ASVAB scores. Doing monthly resilience classes and helping quarterly ASIP courses and all the other influential stuff will stop for me but it's all for my health and I plan to give my time to my family now.

To payoff student loan debt more than I have in the past.