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Loving Life! (Photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n

Week #16 –\u00a0Can you say \u201cI love my life!\u201d \u00a0(One surefire way to make sure you can in 2015!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of us have been looking back over the past year, reflecting on all the changes, the highs, the lows, what happened, what went wrong, and how we can fix it in 2015.<\/p>\n

But it’s hard to love your life when it’s so easy to look back and come up with all the bad things that happened. \u00a0Hell — while reviewing my own year I forgot about starting this website and blogging for the first time (something I’ve been wanting to do for years!). \u00a0Those two wins got eclipsed\u00a0(momentarily) by one very significant loss. \u00a0Afterall, it’s easy to get stuck on the\u00a0losses…but we have to balance them with what we’ve gained. \u00a0We have to, as our friend Rob Nicholson said in a recent Facebook post, “keep moving forward and celebrate and revel in what we have!”<\/p>\n

So I want to do something different. \u00a0I want to look ahead…WAY ahead. \u00a0To December 31st of THIS year. \u00a0It’s only 365 days away. \u00a0Oops…364 now! \u00a0What will it take to say on that day, “I love my life?”<\/p>\n

I know one thing for sure…it will take\u00a0REMINDERS!<\/p>\n

Your assignment this week: Don’t count on yourself to remember everything about the year come December 31st. \u00a0Make a plan to curate the wins just as much as the losses. \u00a0Come up with a system for recording your achievements, successes, highlights, and otherwise happy times THROUGHOUT\u00a0the year\u00a0ahead! \u00a0The most obvious way is to keep a dated list — in a journal, on your computer, via email, or on your phone — where you take time each day to review your activities and take note of anything special or significant. \u00a0I keep a running list by date and habitually recount the day’s activities. \u00a0To be honest, most days it’s pretty mundane — but the habit assures that when something notable happens I’m going to capture and remember it. \u00a0Recently though, I’ve seen and heard about some other very creative ideas:<\/p>\n