This Year look for potential

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, 

drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, 

to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... 

not looking for flaws, but for potential."

Ellen Goodman

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14th Annual 

One Word; One Year Project

What will your word(s) or MOTTO be for 2022?

Now that the winter solstice has passed, New Year's Day is almost here!!! So, it may be time to reflect on the past 12 months (be gentle with yourself) and more importantly, come up with your guiding WORD(s) or MOTTO for 2022! (a Quote of the Week Project since 2008!)

This word will guide you and sum up the essence and focus for the next 365 days of your life. Hopefully, it will inspire you on what you want "TO BE" as opposed to what you need "TO DO" and maybe it will allow you to step back and look at the BIG picture:

Some helpful questions that may help you decide…

What do I want to feel this coming year?

What kind of experiences do I want to have?

What results, effects, or changes do I want to see?

What do I want to create in this New Year? 

What do I want to let go of?

 

So, what will be your word or phrase that will guide you through 2022? Please Share! 

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This Week's Care Package 

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, meditations, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: 9 Reasons you need a Personal Motto

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201508/9-reasons-you-need-personal-motto

A Meditation: Guided Meditation | New Year, New You!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAh6CbWVq4

A Boredom Busting Website: Identify your social class based on how you feel about certain foods

 https://www.idrlabs.com/food-choice/test.php

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Wishing you a most beautiful day (year) wherever this may find you!

 A Motto from a famous Christmas movie

that points out that things of true worth are not measured

 in dollars, but in the currency of friendship and family, 

and the good karma one puts out into the world.

“All you can take with you

is that which you’ve given away.”

From the Movie, It's a Wonderful Life

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This Week's Care Package 

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, meditations, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Important Life Lessons We Learn From ‘It’s A Wonderful Life

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2021/11/16/life-lessons-we-learn-from-its-a-wonderful-life-as-the-christmas-classic-turns-75/?sh=8b958094ae65

Meditation: To Melt Holiday Stress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQEv7U-2UU

Website: Need Advice but don't have the time to read the book? Try Book Freak

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/bookfreak?utm_campaign=Recomendo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

And to all Quote of the Week members worldwide...

"Haid joule ja head uut aastat"; "God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År"; "Buone Feste Natalizie":  "Feliz Navidad"; "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"; "Joyeux Noël"; "Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan"; "Saint Dan Fai Lok"; "Froehliche Weihnachten"; "Kala Christouyenna" ; "Een Plesierige Kerfees"; "I'd Miilad Said Oua Sana Saida"; "Merry Christmas"; "Happy Hanukkah" 

 On Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 

It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. 

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

 Innerspace

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This Week's Care Package 

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, meditations, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Meditation Video: Gratitude; 21 Day Transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD4HaBBc0I

Article: The 34 Best TED Talks And Videos on The Power of Gratitude

https://positivepsychology.com/gratitude-ted-talks-videos/

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Spread Kindness

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. 

Know how to give without hesitation, 

how to lose without regret, how to 

acquire without meanness.” 

George Sand.

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This Week's Care Package 

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, meditations, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: How Kindness Spreads in a Community

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_kindness_spreads_in_a_community

TED TALK: The Power of Kindness

https://www.ted.com/talks/raegan_hill_the_power_of_kindness

This week's Meditation Recommendation: Loving Kindness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d_AA9H4z9U

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!!

 

Were you Born with Wings?

"You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly."

Rumi

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Article: Born with Potential

https://www.virtuesforlife.com/rumi-you-were-born-with-wings/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Fulfilling Potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MslDnwerQRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tSE2w53ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYxiIRG4xQ

Boredom Busting Website: Check out the World with Google Earth

https://earth.google.com/web/

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 A Thanksgiving Quote (from last year) worth repeating!

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...

it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie  

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This Week and Always...

"Start Each Day with a GRATEFUL Heart"

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Wishing you a most beautiful day and Thanksgiving!

 Gratitude: great to have, better to give!

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues,

but the parent of all of the others."

Cicero (106–43bc)

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Article: Gratitude, Parent of all virtues: 

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-20/edition-1/gratitude-parent-all-virtues

RocknRoll Homeroom Playlist: On Gratitude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO48Cnl66w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKiyo48VJI

Inspiring Video of the Week: Une chorégraphie Originale par Sadeck Waff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdsIkQqAmE&t=8s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Cultivating Equanimity

(I'm trying!)

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, 

and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. 

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Carl Jung

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Equanimity: A Practice for Troubled Times

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-now/201710/equanimity-practice-troubled-times

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Music to help you find some equanimity; Weightless - Marconi Union. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBvtLxg3M0

A Boredom Busting Video: A Story about a whale saving a woman's life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNCCdcBhcY&t=327s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

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By the way, did you know that the Quote of the Week is Cruelty-Free?  

I do not test the Quote of the Week on innocent lab animals. 

  I can relate to this...

"I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do 

to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment."

Willem Dafoe

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

TED Talk: Want to be happier; Stay in the moment

https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_killingsworth_want_to_be_happier_stay_in_the_moment?language=en

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Living in the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUFs_1vKYlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRWUOkJVVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

A Meditation: Feeling Fully Present in The Moment 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVeyjwnxlIA

Boredom Busting Website:  Enjoy a Retro TV Experience

https://www.my90stv.com/#fqrfvijEJgs

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Light up Others!

A candle loses nothing

by lighting another candle.

Italian Proverb

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: How to Be the Light of Inspiration

https://terrikozlowski.com/be-the-light-by-being-authentic/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: The Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBtrPWSKM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttqE4Bd2fA

Boredom Busting Website: Into Puzzles? This table may be for you!

Made me Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VQUDpK9Iw

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Your Soul Knows

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.

Your soul alone has the map of your future,

 therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. 

If you do, it will take you where you need to go, 

but more important it will teach you a kindness 

of rhythm in your journey."

John O'Donohue

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: Does the Soul Exist? Evidence says Yes

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/201112/does-the-soul-exist-evidence-says-yes

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Soul Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpI1fcJdFrA&t=10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKVFYD8Obc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8

A Boredom Busting & Calming Video: Zen garden - Pattern explorations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxflcCxqebU&t=6s

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 This quote was inspired by my recent visit to

 New Hampshire's The White Mountains

“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, 

and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. 

Wash your spirit clean.”

John Muir

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: The Healing Power of Nature

https://time.com/4405827/the-healing-power-of-nature/

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Songs about Nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMMiXjwhODU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-JreXuvCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU_NdXcqYTw

A Boredom Busting Website: How Mushroom Time Lapses Are Filmed

https://kottke.org/21/09/how-mushroom-time-lapses-are-filmed

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

 Enjoy the beauty of waiting and the anticipation of what’s to come.

Trust the wait. 

Embrace the uncertainty. 

Enjoy the beauty of becoming. 

When nothing is certain, anything is possible.

Mandy Hale

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This Week's Care Package

Articles, videos, podcasts, thought provokers, and other nutrients for these challenging times...

Article: On Waiting

https://philosophynow.org/issues/96/On_Waiting

Rock n Roll Homeroom Playlist: Songs about "Waiting"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJngWval8Bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBvsBpgGbo

A Boredom Busting Website: Watch some great video shorts...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks?utm_campaign=Recomendo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!