Year end

 Sunrise @ 8:50AM

Sunset @ 4:24PM

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. - Melody Beattie

This morning I am thankful for

1. The warmth from my furnace on this cold winter morning
2. My family
3. new beginnings

Question of the day

What do I love about my life?  This question is an easy one for me.  I love my life for the most part.  I love the freedom that my hubby and I have with our work.  We both have jobs that allow us to have time when we want.  We both work from home and make our own schedules.  It is great to be able to do things together during the week.  I also like my relationship with our adult children.

Daily Diary

 This morning I read a blog post by Korra Shay called 9 Toxic Habits That Are Destroying Your Happiness

Bad habit number 1 is spending too much time on social media. I know that for me I find that I am constantly checking my Facebook during the day, I seem to care too much for what strangers are saying about things.  When did social media take over my life? Why is it that I check it every morning first thing?  Why do I need to see what happened to others all the time?  I think that for the next week I am going to track how often I open and check Facebook so that i can really know how much time I spend looking at jokes and posts from others.

Bad habit number 2 is always expecting the worst,  I know that i do this.  i try to tell myself that I am just preparing myself for the worse case but why do I automictically go to a worse case scenario?  Why can't I expect the best?  this is something to work on.

Bad habit number 3 is never accepting failure, I'm not sure that for me this is an issue.  Will need to ponder this some more.

Bad habit number 4 is staying in your comfort zone.  In know that I do this.  I don't like to go to new places, or try new foods or do new things.  I ned to learnt o step out more often.

Bad Habit number 5 is comparing yourself to others.  I know that I do this.  I look at friends and acquaintances and see how they do things and then look at my life and often feel inadequate, or like I just am not good enough or I am somehow better then them.  I need to learn to be me and not see me through my ideas of what others are like.

Bad habit number 6 is being indecisive.  Why is it that I can't seem to make up my mind on things.  Why is it that I always let others decide where we are going?  Why am I scared to have an opinion?

Bad habit number 7 is saying yes to everything.  this used to be so me.  The last few years I have really worked at saying no to things.  I still need to learn to do this with family.  it is a work in progress.

Bad Habit number 8 is not giving yourself grace.  I have come to realize that I do this all the time, why is it that I can give grace to others about things but I can't seem to cut myself any slack at all.

Bad habit number 9 is worrying about what others think.  This is so me.  I seem to care about what others think.  I find myself not wanting to admit that things are hard or what is going on.  I want to project a life that I think others will think is great.

I will have to revisit some of these habits, in the article she called them toxic habits, I prefer the term bad habits.  I wonder if i look at this in one year from now if I will have worked on any of these or if I will just have thought about them today.  Today is the day that i am making my goals for the year and for the month of January and my weekly goal for this week starting tomorrow.  It is a weird year, it's starts on my first day of the week, Sunday.

Yesterday's Stats 

Steps: 3,698
Floors: 2
Zone Minutes: 3