2016: My Year of Gratitude

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I don't do resolutions. It would be a sure way to set myself up for failure. But I do keep a few goals in mind to work toward. It's different from the pressure of having to live up to a resolution... at least in my eyes. At the beginning of 2015, I started a gratitude journal. Today, on the last day of the year, I am happy to say that I kept up with it and there is not one single day that I didn't fill in! I am going to do much the same for 2016 but I am going to take it a step further and add a little action to some of the gratitude. I want to make a difference in lives. I want to reconnect with family members who may just hear from me now once a year with a note in a Christmas card for one of my action items. I want to reach out to the elderly and lonely. That's something else I did in 2015 and enjoyed it very much, but I just did that with four people, and I want to at least double it. It is no hardship for me to write a letter or card once a week to each of them knowing that a lonely elderly person will be looking for my mail. It's a joy to do. And I want to do a LOT of Pay It Forward. Should be an exciting year and I'm anxious to get it started! PHOTO is my own... copyright 2015