I have a dream that pops up on occasion, but recently weekly. I am near a building. Sometimes a house, sometimes a small business, often a busy mall, the kind that was busy and bustling in the 80’s. I am having a conversation with someone, usually a stranger. They call my attention to storms in …
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I challenged myself to menu plan and follow through with eating vegetarian for a few days in a row, instead of scattering a vegetarian day between meat, pork and poultry days. Per the diet we loosely follow, a frankenstein DASH/Mediterranean/MIND plan, we have already cut red meat down to one-two days a week and we …
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Dr. Nicole LePera has provided permission for her Future Self Journal information to be shared without first requesting permission. To get the information from the source, the website is: https://theholisticpsychologist.com/future-self-journaling/ She has updated some of the prompts for Future Self Journaling, changes I have found far clearer and effective. So, what do you need to …
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Very successful day of new task….I filled my chart with capital X’s. I competed everything except for two items. And there are a LOT of items on the excel sheet of the list making addict. I have a section on my list for ideas, as I am curious if I am more creative on days …
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New Task, involving Excel spreadsheets. Sounds SO DANG EXCITING. Actually, for OCD (diagnosed, not hyperbole) list makers like myself, it is almost cheating. I tracked different aspect of my life by spreadsheet before and I already had a template I used before. Going into updating the spreadsheet, it hit me how much in all our …
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I named this entry, went on with my day, came back this evening and I have no idea where I was going with this. The start of another productive day? A new start now that I have been doing the web journaling for 3 weeks? The Future Self Journal instructions prefer 30 days but I …
Apparently. Three days in a row I only completed the Grateful portion of journaling. I am going to go back and read the instructions and see if I can find any other examples to lead me in a more productive direction with the other portions of journaling. That said, I do feel journaling has had …
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A sentence I said to The Sps last night, after we were musing about stopping at a local South Asian restaurant in a nearby city. Which kicked off a convo regarding how odd it was for me to say that in the first place, and how far we both have come from our upbringings of …
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I finished up my web journaling here, inspiring a mad scribble of many occurrences I am grateful for in the grateful section (item number two) of the FSJ. Then completely forgot to complete the rest of it. Figures, I remember to do the section I find easiest and more rewarding. I am grateful for: Only …
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I’ve done very well. I do find the format confusing. I read the instructions, repetition is the name of the game. Yet I feel like the exercise is going to fast and my answers are the same. I take less than 5 minutes to complete the daily journaling. To refresh anyone, here are the Future …
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