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I am infinitely surprised at how your blog fits glove-tight into the avenue of my own life’s journey these days. I so appreciate your candor and reality about the ups and downs that are part of the human condition. Bless your journey and how it inspires me!

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Oh I love this so much, Betty. How lovely to read a message from you.

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I'm all in for a few sentences every day - I have no fewer than THREE journals next to my bed - they aren't even for different things especially, and I would love to be writing in them. I find that I do better with end of day reflections than beginning of day intentions as such.

...I say that, but intentions wise, I have been creating daily to-do lists in the mornings. Because I personally like getting to check things off of a physical list, this has been lovely for me, and it includes things like •making the list, •drinking water, •working on art, and any thing I think I might want to do during the day, enjoyable as well as tasks/chores. I don't feel like I HAVE to finish every item on the list, but I feel good at the end of the day about what I have accomplished. I made no resolutions about this, I just made a few lists for hosting during the holidays, and it has carried over.

Anyway - I'd especially love to journal my favorite bit of the day, and something I'm grateful for.

Maybe I'll add it to my list. ☺️

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I often start my day with a bit of a to-do list and in fact I'll often start a journal entry with a bullet list as a warm up as I find it easier, at times, to think in lists then sentences. I also think that to-do lists are a good way to marking our days. I want to remember how I spent my days - like just the ho-hum regular days and I also find that when I have a to-do list it keeps me focused and I can celebrate what I accomplished at the end of the day. We can keep each other accountable to writing at least one sentence a day - next to our to-do list. :)

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Doing a check in. ☺️ I've been going strong (most nights) with writing just a bit - putting it on my check list definitely keeps it present for me. I hope February is off to a good start! 💕

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Good job, Karen. I've been inconsistent but overall getting more writing in than usual. That said, I feel like the year is picking up and so often the first thing to fall off the priority list is writing and really any sort of creative practice. But I know, and I know you can relate, that making things - creating things - is part of my mental health practice so I feel like I'll do better about carving out that time. I need to.

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👀 What works to help you carve out that time? I'm doing well at sticking with that to-do list lately, but I'm experimenting with changing out a few things - namely, every (ha, the 1½ so far this year) month, I'm trying out throwing in an artistic type challenge that I spend around 15-20 minutes on(next month I'm thinking I should fiddle around with my guitar - and no, I do not play guitar. But I kinda want to) most days. Or not, things don't always happen, but I've been dutifully putting them on my list, and they happen more often because of it. So what works for you?

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