Happy New Year!
With the close of 2020 and the hope associated with the new year, create your own revolutionary vision board. Start simple with a posterboard and markers. Define ONE action item for each key area of your life. Display your board in a location you will see it daily. And remember, regardless of your New Year’s resolution process, make it realistic, memorable, achievable, and comprehensive—encompassing all areas of your life—not just a weight goal.
2021 Financial Goals
Make a list of personal financial goals. Then determine what is achievable in the next 12 months and add it to your Vision Board. Add a reward system for meeting your goal. Look at it each month and hold yourself accountable. Achievement will bring you Joy!
2021 Physical Goals
Apply Newton’s First Law of Motion—a body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion—to your New Year’s Resolution Vision Board to remind you to get moving so that you stay active. Also, add a personal challenge to the equation, then find something you enjoy and get moving.
2021 Personal Goals
Ready. Set. Go. Think “personal goals”. It’s easy to confuse and comingle personal goals with physical, financial, and even spiritual goals, but they should be distinct and different. If you don’t know how to add personal goals to your 2021 Resolutions, check out these ideas.
2021 Family Goals
Ready. Set. Go. Grab the markers, old magazines, and poster-board and get inspired. Create those 2021 Family Goals today.
2021 Community Goals
What is your community? For me community is not a government form of socialism, but a personal form of socialism—where I choose to put others first, choose to share with those in need, choose to give time and effort to make a better world.
2021 Spiritual Goals
As I work on my 2021 Vision Board, I am reminded of findingJOY through the suffering in this challenging year that is finally coming to an end. So, I’ve chosen JOY as my word and Romans 15:13 as a new mantra to remind me that I will be filled with JOY in all circumstances. Add a spiritual goal to your New Year’s Resolution. It will bring you comfort and peace.
The 2021 Resolution
Good-bye 2020!! I’m ready for 2021. How about you? Get started today on a fun and rewarding New Years Resolution Board and Vision Statement. Grab the markers, old magazines, and poster-board and get inspired.
The Imperfect Tree
Inspiring words from Patricia Cameron, guest blogger and mother extraordinaire, about the beauty found in the ugly this Christmas… ”It’s probably the ugliest tree we’ve ever had. We had a short window to get it and hurriedly picked it out in the rain. I’ve tried to disguise its crooked form with lights and ribbons. But when I look at it, I see the lean to the left, the gaping holes and bare places where the base of the tree can be seen through its limbs…”
Thoughtful gift-giving
The stress of gift-giving can kill joy. So, don’t let that happen to you this holiday season. findingJOY in gift-giving is all about being a little organized and diligent in listening and note-taking. It’s not too late to start today!
findingJOY in Illness
Finding the right words for a friend facing cancer is difficult, but findingJOY is possible.
Dribble. Pass. Get Dunked.
“Mom, I need someone to help me work on my basketball skills. Meet me in the driveway. You just need to dibble and pass, and I’ll practice shooting.”
My instinct and desire is to say: “No. It’s 2 o’clock on a sunny August afternoon in Louisiana… Hot! And I don’t know how to dribble and pass. And I’ll need appropriate shoes.” All excuses because I’m ‘super-busy’ doing things that are not important. But instead, I say: “Ok. I’ll help you improve your game if all I have to do is dribble and pass.” Then I tell myself that I’ll take a 5-minute break from my writing to spend quality time with my youngest son and I meet him on the driveway in the blazing sun.
Shoveling poo for a week
The year 2020 has been a trying time for the world. Regardless of who you are, where you live, or how much money you have, you’ve been impacted. Everything from feeding your family to social isolation has caused anxiety and stress. Divorce rates are increasing, teen-suicide is at an all-time-high, mortgages are in default, and unemployment has impacted almost every household in one way or another. But I’m here to tell you that anyone can shovel poo for a while.
The ONE THING
So, who is Traci Canterbury?
As I navigate this new lifestyle, I’ve vowed to find and appreciate simple joy in everyday life in and through the things I love: art, literature, gardening, hospitality, healthy active lifestyle and travel. I have so much to say and want to get it out of my head …starting a social media feed seems a natural outlet.
Lemon. Aid.
Lemons are tart and require a particular sense of taste to enjoy eating one like one would eat an orange. Yet, when balanced with the sweet flavor of sugar lemons become refreshing and pleasing to the taste buds.
I have not fully made my batch of lemonade, but I’m slowly adding the sugar and have my glass of ice ready. As I slow down, hunt for simplicity, and bring my life into balance, I am findingJOY.
Make. Every. Day. Count
The dragonfly is symbolic for spiritual change and transformation, adaptability, self-realization and understanding the deeper meaning of life. There is nothing more perfect than the dragonfly to represent my hopes for the inspiration and content of findingJOY.
Finding Joy. Life
So, who is Traci Canterbury?
As I navigate this new lifestyle, I’ve vowed to find and appreciate simple joy in everyday life in and through the things I love: art, literature, gardening, hospitality, healthy active lifestyle and travel. I have so much to say and want to get it out of my head …starting a social media feed seems a natural outlet.