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Set your 15 goals for 2021 while its still cold !
I have spent my 2021 new year eve in Hakuba- Japan which is around 3 hours’ drive towards north-west from Tokyo. A cold enough city for me to wear at least 4 layers while going out to sight the marvelous scenery. Contemplating into the fascinating scenes around, has inspired me to plan closing 2021 in style after the tragic year we all have undergone. I want to make 2021 a memorable year for me.
By Ahmed Awwad6 years ago in Motivation
The New Normal
The saga continues . . . . . . 2020 was a crazy year. Started off amazingly, with so many hopes, dreams, & ambitions to behold. Then boom - COVID-19, took over the entire world. Seemed like the virus came out of nowhere, and just destroyed life as we know it.
By Quad Sevyn6 years ago in Motivation
No More Only Giving Half Of Myself
Well Dream, it's the 31st of December, 2021 and you've done it! Everything that you said you would accomplish this year was accomplished by you. Your theme for this year of your life was to demonstrate perfect self-expression in all areas of your life. You were bored with only being half of the self you knew you really were inside and you were tired of only giving the world the lesser half of yourself. You were in complete awe of the young woman living as you so vibrantly in your imagination. She was completely dynamic and you loved how she approached the world, how she looked at life, and how there was no separation between who she was being and who she wanted to be. You wanted to be more like the imaginary you living in your mind and you made a decision to fully embody her.
By Dream Silas6 years ago in Motivation
BHAG of 2021
Dear Diary, Happy New Year. It’s been ONE HECK OF A RIDE. We didn’t see this coming, not in a million years. It’s like a nightmare turned into reality. The borders are shut, protests and natural disasters are wilder than ever, people dying left, right and center. In just a matter of weeks, the world turned has upside down.
By Kay Dee6 years ago in Motivation
The Year For New Resolutions
The year 2020 burst in with a massive flame spreading everywhere. Every day there was a reoccurring event of bad news. It was like the world was on a repeating time-loop that stole people to take along the way. I have to say that 2020 had some serious balls of stone. Rushing in with its radar stretching in every direction. There was no corner of the world that was truly safe. The year was stealing whoever it chose without care.
By Shelly Bartley6 years ago in Motivation
Preparing for Chinese New Year
As a Canadian-born Chinese American, the turn of the year is always elongated by Chinese New Year festivities as our new years follows the traditional lunar calendar and takes place usually weeks after the first of January. My childhood memories of this special holiday are marked with large family gatherings over traditional foods, receiving and giving oranges and tangerines as signs of goodluck and prosperity, receiving "lucky money" in little red envelopes to put under my mattress for goodluck, attending and participating in Chinese New Year festivals which include watching lion dances, martial arts and dance performances, plays about Chinese history and mythology, and burning incense in honor of our ancestors, amongst other things.
By Nissa Tzun6 years ago in Motivation
2021: The Art of Deliberate Creation
Dear @bosskatie of 2022, Wow. I can't believe you've actually made it. From where you stood at the beginning of 2021, to where you are now (one year later), it's like you've stepped into an entirely new world. A completely new reality that at one point only existed within your mind. Our mind. My mind right now, visualizing you, standing there on your balcony, reading this letter, smiling.
By Kahsia Solaire6 years ago in Motivation
Breaking Up is (Not So) Hard to Do: Goodbye, 2020. Hello, Me. . Third Place in Dear New Year Challenge.
An open letter to myself & any beautiful soul that can relate. 3...2....1... Happy New Year! While the snaps, crackles, & pops of fireworks fill the air outside with startling exuberance, you feel the collective’s energy shift. A quiet rush of peace overwhelms your being as time seems to stand still. You smile to yourself in acknowledgment that you’ve made it through an arduous relationship with another year, the toughest one yet, excited for the hope that lies in 2021.
By Sadie Kaminsky6 years ago in Motivation
Why 2020 was actually the BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE:
THE SURPRISING GIFTS FROM A GLOBAL PANDEMIC... So, I get it. This isn’t the most popular opinion. It's maybe even a little outrageous... perhaps even ridiculous... and definitely privileged to some degree... But I've got to say it. I really LOVED 2020. I really did! It was THE BEST. It was my favourite year in a long, long time...and I am just not as excited as everyone else seems to be to kick it to the curb and see it end and be over with....
By Shannon Rose Scott 6 years ago in Motivation
