Series – Future Self Journal – 5B – Frisson!

I love learning new words! Frisson. Definition: a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill. Word is used to describe a feeling when experiencing an audio or visual event that causes a physical response, i.e. chills. I also love reddit, because I learn new words. Some of them very bad. Last night when …

Series – Future Self Journal – 4B – Dreams of Tornadoes

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 …

Series – Future Self Journal – 3B – Not a Vegetarian BUT

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 …

Series – Future Self Journal – Review of the Journal Exercise

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 …

Series – Future Self Journaling – 1B -Count Your Blessings

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 …

Series – Future Self Journal – 19 – Just a lot of Gratefuls

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 …

Series – Future Self Journal – 18 – My experience so far.

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 …