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Daily Ramblings – Final Post Friday – 2020

18 Friday Dec 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Bonus Content

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2020, 2021, Blogging, Bye for Now, final post, Friends, New Year, Thank you

Well, it’s been a helluva year. I hope all of you have been safe, healthy, and happy. This will be my last posting for 2020, as I’m taking off the last few weeks in December to celebrate my favorite part of the year.

With this final post, I’m grateful to have made a few friends, including author K.M. Allan. So many stories of your lives, pictures and places you’ve traveled, and all the rest each of us enjoys talking about are truly a tremendous gift for me. Despite our lockdowns, we have a medium to write down our thoughts and share them with the world.

I’d also like to thank all of you, personally, for following my blog. I try to capture a bunch of different topics, unlike many out there that stick to one topic or idea. This year, I’ll be dropping some of my daily topics for others. I don’t know which ones yet, but I’ll be thinking about that before the New Year begins. As this blog grows, so will my ideas.

In closing, I wish all of you peace, happiness, and love in 2021. See you there!!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spread Your Wings Sunday – Weekly Challenge Week of November 15, 2020.

15 Sunday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spread Your Wings

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Weekly Challenge: This week, as we approach Thanksgiving, write down everything you’re grateful for now and the things you are grateful for in 2020. I know some of this will be hard, because 2020 has been a terrible time for some of you. Do you best!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – End of Year Recap

29 Sunday Dec 2019

Posted by Dave Gardner in Happy New Year, Motivation Monday

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2020, Achievements, Failures, family, Friends, Goals, New Year, Planning, Strategy

Here I am for one day to document my goals for 2019 and how it all panned out throughout the year. When I return finally on the 2nd of January 2020, I’ll post my 2020 goals. I wanted to get this out to you before New Year’s Eve as promised. So here we go!

Physical

  1. Develop a life-long workout routine for home and gym
  2. Reduce Weight to 200 lbs
  3. Get to your Dental Appointments
  4. Get Annual Physical
  5. Chiropractor monthly to keep back and joints in order
  6. Eye exam

Learning

  1. Complete 12 courses online this year

Financial

  1. Save 1200.00 by year’s end

Spiritual

  1. Complete Book discussions
  2. Participate on panel at Regional
  3. Participate at HI retreat if invited
  4. Kick off the Art of Spiritual Dreaming
  5. Complete Light and Sound Discourse
  6. Send in 12 Initiate reports
  7. Spiritual exercises 20 minutes per day
  8. Read Shariyat (My Bible) daily

Reading

  1. Complete 48 books by year’s end

Writing

  1. Finish Recruiting Book this year
  2. Learn outlining for nonfiction books
  3. Learn outlining for novel creating steps

Blogging

  1. Build followers to 1000 by year’s end

Social

  1. Stay in touch with family and friends

So everything that is in red is where I fell short of my yearly goals. Here’s what I learned.

Reduce Weight to 200 lbs – Missed

Losing weight is all about calorie deficit. You won’t lose weight if you do not decrease your intake. This is hard, no doubt about it, but I’ll be adding this again to my yearly goals for 2020. I’ve purchased a food tracker and will continue to strive to build a nutritious diet that is sustainable for the long-term. If any of you have followed my blog for this year, you know I gave the KETO diet a try. It didn’t work. I lost weight, but could not sustain the diet for the long term. Back to the drawing board.

Save 1200.00 by year’s end

Again, another tough one. You would think it was easy, but when you’re on a retirement income, it is not. I have morphed my budget in the last few months that should help me with this goal. This will also go back on my list for 2020. I plan on saving more than this, but this is the goal, since I couldn’t hit it this year.

Build followers to 1000 by year’s end

Another tough one. I thought I would make it, but have just recently breached the 650 mark for followers. This will be a goal of mine again, but this year will be more realistic. I’ll shoot for 800 by year’s end 2020. I’ve got some plans to change out some of my content for the upcoming year, sticking with the topics people enjoyed and leaving aside those topic areas where no one seemed to be too interested or where I wasn’t getting the traffic I wanted.

What I’m going to keep.

I had great success in the areas of book reading, classes taken and completed, and book writing. I also knocked it out of the park on my exercise, my spiritual areas, and my social areas. I haven’t finalized what my goal list will look like yet. I’ll be thinking about those things tomorrow and New Year’s Day.

I know a lot of people have given up on setting New Year’s resolutions, because they seem to fail or lose interest after a few months. I would urge you to set them anyway. Just don’t set too many. Shoot for one or two areas you’d like to improve this year and stick with them. Who cares if you miss the mark, the key is the process of trying to meet them. It really makes life very interesting. You will also make some progress. Relish that! That’s where you can become even more motivated. When you begin to see progress in an area you want to improve, you’ll be that much more driven to keep pushing!!

One thing I discovered is that my goals were not specific enough in some areas. I will reword them this year, so they are measurable. Tracking goals is really important. To properly track them, they have to be specific metrics. You’ll see this in my upcoming goal’s list.

Well, that’s it for today! I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday season. I did. My brother and sister came out for the holidays and it was terrific! We had a great time as a family.

Happy New Year, readers! I hope all of you have a wonderful time at the parties you are going to or hosting. I also wish each of you great happiness, adventure, love, and an outstanding 2020! Remember: You can’t lose if you don’t quit!!!

Until next time…

Dave

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