What are you anticipating in your life in this New Year? Are you making resolutions to change in some manner? Are you anticipating a marriage!? Or possibly bad news? Is there a special date coming up this year, perhaps a special anniversary of marriage, or one of death? Are you anticipating a dream-vacation? What are you looking ahead to?
I’ve come across several scrap booking sites that make this craft seem very do-able, which I would try if I could carve out the time! Perhaps this is something you’d like to try to capture the memories you are anticipating making this year?
Another resource I’ve come across is a site that sends journaling prompts and downloadable journaling cards. This is something you can use in conjunction with scrap booking or all on it’s own. You can also pick up a simple notebook or journal at a bookstore and start recording your thoughts for the day. I’m sure there are many more out there, but I like this one. I download her free printables in hopes of using them soon! (That day somewhere in the future when I get organized enough and have the time to think!)
Of course there are also planning sites, ready to help you plan the perfect wedding, special party or perfect vacation! These are so helpful in everything happening to the final detail. However, these are also the details that are fun to look back on and see how special the event was when reviewing all the work put into it!
In my short experience of life I’ve learned that if I don’t record my experiences in some manner, they aren’t as clear as I wish they would stay when I think back on them. The times I’ve written about my vacation, my feelings after an argument, my experience with the death of a loved one, I don’t have a clear recollection of those happy memories, I can’t read the emotions I felt during that fight and therefore can’t continue to learn from the experience, or remember the sorrow so clearly and bring that loved-one back quite as completely in my memory.
I encourage you in this new year to take the time to record your thoughts and feelings about those things which you are currently anticipating, both how you feel now, and when they happen!
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