Happy New Year, my friends! I know it’s been a loooooonnnnnnnngggggggg time since I last posted. I do apologize. Life has been crazy busy but super fun, which hasn’t given me much downtime to write. My New Year’s resolution is to do better.
Speaking of Resolutions, I hope yours are going well if you have started any. Instead of resolutions, My Heart and I go through our year in review as Tim Ferris suggests in his “5 Bullet Fridays“. We go through our calendar and review the events of the past year. What did we do? What trips did we go on? What people did we spend time with? What activities did we do? Did we take care of our health and well-being? What did we enjoy? Would we do it again? What was good and bad? Then we continue down each event and each friend or family member we interacted with. We discuss how we felt about the experience and put it in the positive, negative, or neutral column. Then we try to put the positive things on our calendar for the new year. I think this is a great way to review your year, to open communication with your partner about your likes and dislikes, and determine how you want to move forward together.
If your goal is to be healthier this new year, reread this post from 2022 and take a look under my tab Healthy Habits for easy workouts you can do at home under How We Move, and check out How We Eat for recipes.
If you want to travel, then look at different websites and find great deals, and go where you have always wanted to go. Get your passport, get that airline ticket, go on that cruise. Life is short. Get it on the calendar. Make the sacrifices to save the money so you can go on that Dream Vacation.
If your goal is to spend more quality time at home and with the people you love, then again, make those plans. Figure out how you can meet up with them if you aren’t in the same town. As a family, figure out how you can spend more quality time together. Take one day each week and turn off technology. No phones, no video games, just family time. Make it a game night where you can interact with each other. Movie nights are fun, and there is a time and place for them, but for solid quality time, turn off technology and interact. Ask each other questions, build a puzzle, or play a game. I know we all have a hard time without our phones, but we need to start making an effort to put them away for a day, a night, or an afternoon. Show the kids it’s ok to be out of reach for a few hours.
Well, this post is short and sweet. I wish you a Happy, Healthy New Year and a year full of gratitude. Try to remember life is a blessing. We never know when it will be taken away. Live life to the fullest, tell people you love them, and pass on a smile to a stranger because they may need it.
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