With the Christmas holidays behind us and the new year just ahead, many people are starting to think about the goals and dreams they hope to accomplish in 2024. There are the usual suspects - work out, lose weight, be healthier. However, others are turning introspective as we all face new beginnings.
Here are a few New Year’s resolutions from around Lincoln County.
- “To try to keep all the other New Year’s resolutions that I’ve made.”
Jared Gross, Boomerang Cafe - “Mainly, just make sure I have enough money for it. Christmas and my son’s birthday are like close together and right now.”
Candy, Boomerang Cafe -“Spend more time with family.”
Melissa Covington, Hite’s Drug - “Be more positive.” DJ Ussrey, Sharpe’s - “I guess mine would be love myself more. Start to love myself more.”
Jade Phipps, Sharpe’s - “I think for me, because I’m single and it has really bothered me this year on like some of the crappy guys I’ve been with, I’m going to learn to be happy with being alone and working on bettering my life and loving myself, too.”
Robin Key, Sharpe’s - “To be more organized with my life, my car. To have straight A’s.”
Halle Pittman, Student - “My new resolution is probably to be close to God and family.”
Savannah Miller, Student - “Deliver more flowers.”
Sandy Jackson, Petal Pushers - “I guess my New Year’s resolution would be to not make New Year’s resolutions and to realize that change can happen every day.”
Carmelita Ritter, Petal Pushers - “Listen more and don’t talk as much.”
Joseph Irby, Tedford Insurance - “My resolution would be to try to be the best role-model, Christ-like example, and servant leader for my students, school and community.”
Marty Coulson, Wellston Agricultural Education Instructor/ FFA Advisor - “My resolutions are to be more active, as well as getting my dog to be more active. I like to take her on more walks, take her to the park, get her moving around more so that she can be healthy.”
Emily Hileman, “Reverance” - “I’d like to find a new apartment. I’d like to find a new place to live, which is kind of a dual thing of one, I just want a better apartment, and two, I want to make enough money to make that possible. So, yeah, I’d love to find a new place.”
- Ben Stillwell White, “Reverence” - “My goal is to live life like you just passed a four-way stop that you forgot that you passed through a mile later on. Meaning that you’re living life so well that you’re in almost a meditative state. Did I stop through that four-way stop? That means you’re just living in the moment.”
Kenny Pitts, “Reverence”