{"id":1572,"date":"2018-01-12T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2018-01-11T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:48:04","slug":"week-174-spread-happyness-plan-ahead-and-use-those-calendars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Week #174 &#8211; Spread Happyness: PLAN AHEAD! (And USE those calendars!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1574\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1574\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1574\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-231x300.jpg?resize=231%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018.jpg?resize=231%2C300&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018.jpg?resize=624%2C810&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018.jpg?w=639&amp;ssl=1 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;2018&#8230;at a glance!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Week #174 &#8211; Spread Happyness: PLAN AHEAD! (And USE those calendars!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday, Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Today is Friday, January 12th &#8212; have you unwrapped any one of those cutesy calendars you received over the holidays?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well here is your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1158\">annual reminder<\/a>&#8230;because we are almost HALF WAY\u00a0through the first month of the new year! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope by now you&#8217;ve had the chance to process and celebrate\u00a0the year we just completed &#8212; and set some new goals or visions for the new year ahead. \u00a0(If not, click back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1557\">Week #172<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1565\">Week #173<\/a> for some ideas about how to do that.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe you&#8217;ve picked your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getoneword.com\/\">ONE WORD<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe you&#8217;ve completed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/newsletters\/archive\/0112.html\">end-of-year review<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe you&#8217;ve taken a <a href=\"http:\/\/betterme.org\/cleansweep.html\">life-satisfaction assessment<\/a> to see where you&#8217;re at &#8212; and where you need to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe you&#8217;ve set some SMART goals &#8212; and you made them even SMART-ER by considering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=268\">WHY behind your WHAT.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Maybe you&#8217;ve set up a daily tracking chart like Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writersstore.com\/dont-break-the-chain-calendar\/\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Break the Chain.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do we do with all those goals, dreams, visions, aspirations, and insight?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plan them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of discussion about the virtues of paper calendars versus digital calendars. \u00a0Digital calendars have great portability and a low profile\u00a0&#8212; but rarely are they in your face. \u00a0A password, and then one, two, maybe three clicks &#8212; not to mention competition with all those other apps once you&#8217;re unlocked. \u00a0They just don&#8217;t give you much information at a glance &#8212; or much time to really plan\u00a0ahead.<\/p>\n<p>A paper calendar, hanging on the wall by your bathroom sink or on your refrigerator in the kitchen, may not be all that high tech &#8212; but it is certainly high-profile. \u00a0It also gives you (and whomever you are sharing it with) time to ponder, compare, contribute, discuss, and yes &#8212; even plan ahead!<\/p>\n<p>And many people are boosting their outlook by using FULL-YEAR\u00a0wall calendars to track all the major events, holidays, appointments, and deadlines that are already set by the time we turn the calendar to January 1st &#8212; not to mention their personal goals and\u00a0commitments.<\/p>\n<p>And that makes sense, because it is well-documented that planning ahead is directly related to happiness. \u00a0And not only that &#8212; scheduling your goals and commitments increases the chances that you will actually\u00a0follow through with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not try it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is an old proverb: &#8220;Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is the tree of life.&#8221; \u00a0(Proverbs 13:13) \u00a0Don&#8217;t allow your daily or weekly schedule to rob you of the joy of planning\u00a0ahead! \u00a0Start plotting\u00a0your year today!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Your Happyness Challenge for the Week Ahead:\u00a0PLAN AHEAD! \u00a0<\/strong>Perhaps someone gave you a cutesy calendar during the holidays &#8212; or you grabbed a freebie at your bank or pizza place without really thinking about where or how you&#8217;d use it. \u00a0I challenge you this week to HANG IT UP! \u00a0If you don&#8217;t like the pictures, tear out the calendar pages and arrange them\u00a0in months, quarters &#8212; or the entire year at a glance. \u00a0Then open your personal daily planners, pull together all those school and activity calendars, queue up Google to search holiday dates &#8212; and start plotting your year!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start with the big\u00a0holidays\u00a0and three-day weekends, birthdays, and major events (like weddings, graduations, important anniversaries).<\/li>\n<li>I also like to mark the solstices\/equinoxes, full moons, and time changes.<\/li>\n<li>Then move on to some of your goals. \u00a0Are you running a marathon? \u00a0Writing a book? \u00a0Growing a business? \u00a0Saving for a house? \u00a0Planning a vacation or next year&#8217;s holiday travel? \u00a0Start plotting your desires on the calendar by asking: where and when will this take place?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><strong>Spread Happyness<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; PLAN AHEAD! \u00a0Share your favorite calendar tips &#8212; but most important, share your calendars with the ones you love!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>1\/12\/17 by Grace Church<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 Grace Church<br \/>\ngrace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week #174 &#8211; Spread Happyness: PLAN AHEAD! (And USE those calendars!) Happy Friday, Everyone! Today is Friday, January 12th &#8212; have you unwrapped any one of those cutesy calendars you received over the holidays? Well here is your\u00a0annual reminder&#8230;because we are almost HALF WAY\u00a0through the first month of the new year! \u00a0 I hope by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}