January goals

Thirty-one days of grateful...

I chose the month of January to begin a grateful journal. To recognize the good that surrounds me, even on the toughest of days. I plan to continue beyond the 31 days, but this was my beginning to a more grateful 2015

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow

• January 1 - today I am grateful for the opportunity to spend the day in Pj's while being productive and creative in my studio.
• January 2 - today I am grateful for clean eating, training with my daughter, finally getting the hot tub hooked up, time to be creative, deleting facebook from my phone and finding more time to organize.
• January 3 - today I am grateful for the opportunity to scrapbook with my sister and friends, finish up my December daily and have some uplifting chats with friends.
• January 4 -  today I am grateful for the opportunity to train with my daughter, dinner at Stancatos with friends, relaxing in hot tub with a glass of wine.
• January 5 - today I am grateful for a quiet day home, Bentley training so well, hanging out with Chelsea and Anthony after dinner and creative time.
• January 6 - today I am grateful for finally able to walk on incline since broken toe over three weeks ago, dole chopped salads, chicken and feta meatballs and a night with hubs
• January 7 - today I am grateful for 12 years without smoking, time with my sister, training with my daughter and that silly dog Bentley
• January 8 - today I am grateful for a quiet day, time to reboot, time to write and organize and do the things I love, library time to sit and read and get new books
• January 9 - today I am grateful for my first cup of coffee, hanging out with my sister and Cameron, A night at museum movie bringing us laughter and an evening with the best girlfriends a girl could have
• January 10 - today I am grateful for the ability to test my body strength, almost back to running again, celebrating birthdays with friends and family, my husband who helps me through the highs and lows
• January 11 - today I am grateful for a day of quiet, time for reading, finishing book club book and getting back in that hot tub!
• January 12 - today I am grateful for the snow that blankets our yard, getting all my returns done, running 3 miles... finally, laughing so hard with Bentley in the snow!
• January 13 - today I am grateful for a clean house, Christmas put away, Valentines out,craft time, reading time and taking the next step with Bentley in training.
• January 14 - today I am grateful for wedding countdown, my morning coffee, reading a good book, time with Debbie, a successful craft day, and evening with my husband
• January 15 - today I am grateful for my morning coffee, finally running 5 miles, my husband helping out when I need him and an early night to bed
• January 16 - today I am grateful for a lunch date with Debbie, Stacey and Kim, and Bentley who always gets me to smile, getting mom to create even for a bit, wine... oh yes, wine!
• January 17 - today I am grateful for Dan's dogs, cake testing, wedding countdown, planning, creating, quiet time with mom, funny cat and dog
• January 18 - today I am grateful for gym time, a 6 mile run in 54 min, puppy training, dinner out with Debbbie and relaxing in the hot tub with a glass of wine!
• January 19 - today I am grateful for training with my daughter (I think), writing, reading, chicken meatballs, Bentley, hot tub
• January 20 - today I am grateful for craft day with Debbie, book club and my awesome book club girlfriends, skype, wine, shimmertinis, laughter
• January 21 - today I am grateful for a day with Deb, making roses, working on guest room, shower planning, cleaning out
• January 22 - today I am grateful for running 4 miles, lunch date with my kids, Zach's help in getting upstairs room cleaned out, time for reading
• January 23 - today I am grateful for training with Milt, more organizing, silly Bentley,  date night with my hubby - American Sniper movie
• January 24 - today I am grateful for time to finish up projects,painting second coat on cabinet, reading time, office time, fireplace time and oh yes, hot tub time 
• January 25 - today I am grateful for puppy training, running 5 miles in 44 minutes, time for reading book club book and fireplaces 
• January 26 - today I am grateful for making it through tough training with Julie, organizing house, dinner with Joel, Chel, Anthony, Sara and Bob
• January 27 - today I am grateful for lunch with my daughter, girlfriends and Brenda in town! Time with Deb and wine bars
• January 28 - today I am grateful for another date with girlfriends and lunch, movie, trying a new recipe and reading time and finishing another book.
• January 29 - today I am grateful for training with Chelsea, running a 7:57 mile, reading time, getting organized
• January 30 - today I am grateful for gym time with Milt, disco inferno, saying yes to new things in my life, and Bentley for always making me laugh!
• January 31 - today I am grateful for sleeping in, running 6 miles,  cleaning and organizing and celebrating with Chelsea and Anthony.

Biggest changes in January - being grateful each day, being present, removing Facebook from my phone and back to running after broken toe!

 

 

Comments

[Dena Simoneaux]

Tina, i am loving this! it is awesome! i may try this for the month of February on my blog! Do you mind i steal this idea for February? This is wonderful! i adore this!

[Tina]

thank you and of course share! I'm going to continue in February as well and check out my other goals for the year here... hope to inspire!
http://ryzmomplus2.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/12/2015-goals.html

[Heidi]

Tina, I'm in your Susannah Conway Journal class, and found your blog through there. Just taking a glance through and found this. I love it. I keep a gratitude journal on my phone, it's just a daily list of 5 or 6 things I'm grateful for that day. I have to admit I've gotten a bit lax on doing it daily, I did in the beginning, but I do make an effort to do it a few days a week, and when things are going rough I do it daily. I find it to be a real attitude adjuster. The other thing I do in my daily journal at the end of each day (i do my gratitude at the beginning of the day) is to keep a list of three things that made me happy or made me smile today. I've found these two activities and being able to look back on them occasionally have really helped to keep my mood elevated and my attitude much more positive. Glad to see I'm not alone on doing gratitude :) Peace

[Tina]

Hi Heidi, Oh I love that idea with the 3 things. I think we could all use help in recognizing the daily blessings we receive. I think you can follow blog on the bottom left? But I will look into it more if that is how one follows (I moved it to upper right side)