Whether that was epic success or epic failure, I spent 2011 living in a world of Go Big or Go Home.

If a Year of Intention means anything, it means Don’t Do Anything Half-Assed.

With all the roller coasters peaks and valleys, looking back there were 5 definitive moments that MADE the year 2011 for me.

I’d like to subtitle this post:

AKA Elisa Screwed Up Her First Attempt At A Gravity Form

Since there has been ALMOST AN ENTIRE WEEK that people couldn’t submit or thought that they had missed the deadline, I’m gonna suck it up and push the deadline out to NEXT FRIDAY DECEMBER 30TH.

If you need a refresher, here are the submission guidelines and form

This is Heat Miser’s greatest fault.

And it is where Snow Miser will always have a competitive life advantage.

Committing to a life-changing decision doesn’t immediately succeed the moment you start adapting your life. In fact, like any loss or the cultivation of a relationship, there are stages that most everyone experiences from the moment the idea passes into your mind to the moment that you realize everything is going to be okay.

So I made a list -The Five Stages of a Life-Changing Decision

If nice people don’t change the world, who does? What is the opposite of nice? Are the only people who can change the world jerks? (h/t to Joel Runyon at Blog of Impossible Things for bringing the topic of Nice to my mind this week!)

You are shaking the dice in your hand. You are playing the game. You’re in it now.

That’s pretty much how life goes when we are pushing the boundaries. We have options.

What stops us from exercising these options is their consequences.