The Chronicles Of Nay

Happy Thursday! I hope that everyone is having a good week! My teacher friends, I hope you are resting and enjoying your last week. I have been on the quest for a frame for my puzzle. I don’t think I am looking for the right thing. I need to find one though because I have the perfect place to hang it! I have been working on this blog for about a week. Self reflection is sometimes hard! haha

So as this year comes to an end I have been taking some time to reflect on last year. Like last year I asked my family and friends to tell me something good that happened to them. There were a lot of awesome things that happened. There were new job opportunities, there were ways to showcase awesomeness in current jobs, there were engagements, weddings, babies born, baptisms, Lots of family time, there was traveling, there were life lessons, debts paid off, there were new friendships made and there was healing of all kinds, physical, emotional and spiritual. The year may not have been all good but there were for sure good things that happened!

The last couple of years I have chosen a word to sort of go into the year with. Last year my word was faith. I started out the year strong! But I mean who doesn’t right? I lost a little faith about September. A little mom time helped that out. The last couple months have been a lot better. Have you heard the saying “When you ask God for patience he isn’t going to give you patience but rather opportunities to be patient”? Well that is how my year went. I feel like God gave me opportunities to have faith in him and I definitely had more faith at different times than others. So I set some little goals for the year. The major one for the year was to let go and let God. haha oh man, again, I for sure still need to work on this! I tend to be a bit of a control freak! haha  the next one was that I tried to work on being in the moment. When I am hanging out with someone I try to turn my phone. For the most part I am doing better about this. I am going to call this one a win. I like the intentionality of being in the moment. I am taking this forward into the new year, maybe not so much as a goal but just as a life practice. So the final goal for last year was a picture a day for a year. I didn’t make it the entire year. I did make it to August though which is good! That is for sure the farthest I have ever made it.

So Looking forward to 2022 my motto for the year is “pushing past my comfort zone, because that is where growth happens”. I had a hard time coming up with my word for this year. Using the motto I kept coming up with words that could have a negative connotation if looked at differently. At one point I had a list of 6 words. I was talking to Janna about how apprehensive I was about some parts of this coming year. I know there will be some changes and let’s just be honest, I am not good with change! However, once I read this word I knew this was the word I had been looking for. My one word for the year is courageous. 

My smaller goals are 1) a picture a day again. I have a plan to try to make it further this year. More check-ins! Haha 2) To try new things. 3) Blog more consistently. Finally I am making a conscious effort to 4) Find the sunshine. Last January I challenged my students to find the sunshine in life. This is from that blog: 

I know that everyone is struggling but there is always something to be thankful for if we just look. Even when it rains there are those little rays of sunshine that shine through the clouds. I know that usually when we are in the thick of things we don’t see the sunshine. However, I am making a conscious effort to see the sunshine!   

https://thechroniclesofnay.com/2021/01/14/find-the-suns/

So what are some goals you have? What is your one word for the year? What is your year’s motto?