This last year I have made some progress.
Just breathe! I have heard it before, but it never really helped. OBVIOUSLY I AM BREATHING! I have also heard different methods such as take a big exhale, “square breathing” (in 4, hold 4, out 4, hold 4), and belly breaths. None of these really worked that well for me. Sure they probably helped, but I didn’t really feel that much calmer.
This last year I have made some progress.
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I know I am not alone here, but I LOVE BOOKS. Even though I have owned an eReader and MANY books for years, I had fallen out of reading for pleasure regularly. I used to love curling up with books when stuck at home when I was a kid. When I took time to read as an adult I always enjoyed it--even if it was during a college class, in the car, or at the airport. I listened to a lot of audiobooks when I had an hour commute, but hadn't listened since then.
To ease back into reading for pleasure I set the bar low the last two years with a goal of reading 5 books. I hit that goal each year and I loved it! I have seen many people post the books that they read in 2019 and what they want to read in 2020. I didn't track my 2019 books, but have added this to my planner to track in 2020 and beyond. I also didn't make a reading goal for 2020 or a reading list because I didn't want to cause myself that pressure or sway from the freedom of wanting to read whatever spoke to me at the time I needed to start a new book. The more I thought about tracking books read, the more I knew this was something I wanted to do to shed light on that phase of my life. It's like the books that I read at that time tell a story of their own about that season of my life. Today I sat down and made my list of books that I read/listened to in 2019. I hope I got them all! In this blog post I will share my approach to books, my completed list for 2019 with short comments, and my rough idea of the books I want to go through next. I’m sure you have heard of people choosing a word of the year. It’s a pretty common practice, but I haven’t really taken part in it. Right now, I am going through Chase the Lion by Mark Batterson with my mentor, and he has a practice of choosing both a word and a verse of the year. This has inspired me to adopt that practice as well. The Equestrian Planner has you choose a motto/slogan for the year.
All right, so now I have a list of 3 ways of doing “of the year”. One may appeal to some people more than the others do. I have don’t the motto/slogan last year, but I really want to do all of them this year. Regardless of how many are used, they all create a theme for the year. Now is the hard part: deciding which “of the year” to use and what it should be. |
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