Challenge

  • Challenge,  Dreams,  Happiness,  Health,  Lifestyle,  Planning,  Productivity,  Self-Help,  To Do List

    Bucket List Creation for the New Year: Keeping the Goals Alive and Planning Time for Yourself

    Once the new year comes and goes and the reality of January shows it’s bald head, we often resort back to our old ways, forget what we said we were gonna do and our good intentions become forgotten memories. Then later we are irritated with ourselves, feel like a failure. And then resolve never to have a resolution again because we don’t like the way it feels to not meet them. That used to be me. But somewhere along the way, I thought it would be fun to do a quarterly bucket list to help keep our goals alive and also to put on there things that as a couple…

  • Challenge,  Family,  Holidays,  Home,  Self-Help,  Stress

    A Week of Being Productive, Meeting Challenges, Learning, Living, Enjoying Life, and Now Resting

    It has been a beautiful week. Monday was special with our grandson and his Halloween costume. He loved being Mickey! It’s so fun watching them enjoy the thrills and privileges of childhood. We were told that at his first trick or treat stop a candy was put in his pumpkin bucket and he looked up and said “two?” lol. Perhaps he will be a grand negotiator one day. George and I enjoyed our own Halloween out on the town. We went to Panera for a quick dinner as we had a gift card to use up and then we went Christmas shopping. An excellent night for that if you don’t…

  • Challenge

    Sharing my 5-Tier November “Blessings” Challenge | Plus a Template to Download to Make Your Own

    I’ve been wanting and needing to do a challenge again. Last year I was inspired by KYD’s (Keep Your Daydream channel on YouTube) challenge and it opened my eyes to how you can build habits by using a similar tiered “push” to accomplish a number of things at once that you have been wanting to do. So here’s mine. You can substitute your own with whatever goals or habits you want to do. I themed mine using the terms Blessings and Gratitudes because it was November. I think it’s important to make it something you know you can accomplish but yet it’s a reach. I didn’t do “no sugar” or…