Still adding to my good things jar. Et tu? Recently I received a card from a friend and she put stickers on the envelope. Yes, even in our 40s we are putting stickers on envelopes! LOVE IT! Often times I peel the stickers off and stick them on something else so I get to enjoy them long after the envelope is thrown away. This time I decided to cut them out and put them in my goodie jar.
Yes to me it was a good (actually GREAT) thing that my friend sent me a card. And I love the extra added joy of stickers so I just cut them out to be added to my jar! When my hubby and I go through the jar at the end of the year I will pull the stickers out and they are their own documentation of a good thing! It is like a double bonus. I get the joy of the sticker AND I am reminded that someone loves me and sent me a card! AWESOME!
What about you? What good things are you putting in your jar to remind you of the good things?
Yowza! I almost forgot about my Friday Goodie Jar Check In. I remember last night just as I was falling asleep and I thought I would do it when I got home. This morning I was volunteering at a REALLY cool place I didn’t even know existed until this week when I was invited to join the volunteer group.
I was going to write about it in this post, but I think it deserves a post of its own. You know me (maybe, from my posts?), you know when I get excited about something I want to share and I thing this place is worth sharing in a blog post!
I got home a little later than I expected. But here I am posting the check in. Are you still with me? Are you still putting notes of good things in your Goodie Jar? I am!
If I had started the Good Things Jar at the beginning of the year we would be at Goodie Jar – Check In #19, but I didn’t start my good things jar until February 2013 so we are only at Goodie Jar – Check In #15. And yes, life gets busy and we forget to focus on the good things, that is why we have a check in.
Some of my notes are pretty small. I like to use colorful paper!
How is your week going? Did you have a chance to note a good thing and put it in your Good Things Jar? Now is your chance!
It’s Friday. That means a lot of things, huh? One think it means over here on Terre Pruitt’s Blog is Goodie Jar check in! Are you filling up that jar with all the good things going on in your life? Believe me, I know that some times there are things that are not good and we can let them take over our outlook, our attitudes, our lives OR we can find the good things. I really cannot deny the good even where there are not good things. Even if I have to turn to my friends to celebrate their good things . . . . there are good things!
But . . . that is my belief and how I feel about things. I think there is ALWAYS something at least one good thing about . . . so I choose to focus on that/them. And since they are good I am writing them down and putting them in a jar! I actually put at least three good things in my jar this week and only one of them was Nia related. LOL!
How are you doing? Do you have the “good thing” attitude?
Here we are — another Good Things Jar check in. We check in so we remember to put something in our jar. Life is very busy and there are a lot of things going on. Sometimes we might forget to stop and notice the good things. So that is why we have a good things jar! And that is why we have a Friday check-in!
This is like your alarm! “Hey, did you note a good thing this week? Hey, did you note a good thing this week? Hey, did you note a good thing this week? Hey, did you note a good thing this week?”
Here we are at Goodie Jar – Check In #12. I really do hope you are finding at least one good thing to note and put in your jar. Find the silver lining if that is what you must do. But there has to be something that when you look back at it, it would make you smile.It could be something as silly as a website or a meme you’ve seen on Facebook. There are so many that get passed around. You could note the URL and put it in the jar then on December 31, 2013 when you are reading all your notes you can go look it up. If it made you smile once I bet it will do it again. Here is one that makes me laugh. I had to look it up because we do a “penguin dance” in one of the Nia Routines I am doing and I was wondering what noise a penguin makes.
Cookie the penguin on YouTube:
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What do you think? Super Cute, huh? Worthy of the Good Things jar?
PS: The video of little Cookie was taken by Patricia Sund who you can learn more about from her blog Parrot Nation.
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Well, most people would say that it being Friday is a good thing. So that could go in the Goodie Jar, right? Sure why not. Often people have plans for the weekend so that could go in the Goodie Jar as a good thing. Weekend plans might be a “two-for” because it can be noted and put in the jar BEFORE and then after a good time was had by all it can be noted and put in the jar again! Ha! Two for one!
I recently checked in with my friend who had posted this idea of a good things jar on Facebook to see if she was still doing it. She had forgotten. I kind had a feeling that would happen. I thought I would forget too. So that is why I have the Friday check in so we can be reminded at least once a week.
Last Friday of March and our ninth Goodie Jar Check in. It is all about Good Things, My Friends. Focusing on the good because that is keeping the positive energy flowing. I hope that you have had many good things happen this past week and your jar is getting full.
Keep up the practice. I know at the end of the year when you read all these good things you are going to be so happy you kept is up. You are going to be reminded of all the good things and feel so warm and fuzzy!
I’ve had a couple of things make me extremely happy this past week. One I took a picture of and one was actually a FB post from a friend. I actually made jpgs of them both and printed them, like I did with the Sharks tickets. To me these are good things I want in my jar.
I hope you are still keeping track. You don’t have to write things down necessarily, it could be a receipt or a ticket stub. Something good. How is it going?
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