I wish you the best of a new year, all the joy and safety and health one can hold. 🙂
We’re in a brand new year, and with it brings the anticipation of new things to come! Sunshine Factor is about to experience growth and renewal in an exciting way! In a couple of hours I’m closing the curtain here for a few days, and Sunshine Factor will be reborn on January 4th with the launch of Stanton Sunshine Magazine.
Don’t worry! You won’t miss a thing! Head over to Stanton Sunshine’s Facebook page and click “like” to keep up with the latest launch news, and I’ll see you again January 4th!
I’ve been bursting at the seams for quite awhile now, wanting to tell you about a new project I am developing. I can wait no longer – today is when I introduce you to my new “baby”.
In the new year, The Sunshine Factor blog will join a new website. The blog will still be around but be just one part of something much larger and better! Look for a countdown next month…
The new website will be written by me and contributed to by writers, photographers and storytellers. It will have some of your old favorites like humanizing stories, poems, and recipes. Bursting in on the scene will be new regular features and columns, sure to become new favorites.
Here is where you, my reader, comes into the picture. I am looking for writers who can contribute specified works to the project, writers and photographers who are interested in seeing a great new site become FABULOUS! Unfortunately, I cannot pay you literal cash for your contributions, but our reward will be seeing another strong community be built in the name of inner sunshine, wonderful works of art, and a real sense of accomplishment. It will be something that you will tell your friends and family about. Nothing will be able to stop us! 🙂
I’m forming a group of interested parties who I will contact as a group via email. I will set forth the writing guidelines needed and describe the various columns and features of which you may want to take a part. Please consider this valuable opportunity…
I’m also looking for members to form an advisory panel that I will consult with. I would like the staff of my new site to include more than just me.! Together we can be strong! United! Solid! Enjoying our literary world!
Please fill out the form below, which will take two, maybe three seconds. It is a lightning-quick way to invest your time into something great. Thank you for your consideration!
Mall of America interior (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have many things ready to become new to our house and life pretty soon.
1) My business looks to be thriving; I won’t be sure until mid-March, but so far I’m thankful for you folks who have visited my shops and maybe even purchased something.
2) Our new cat Rachael hasn’t arrived at the Stanton’s yet due to how we wanted to get her medical care at the vet before we bring her home. We pick her up this Saturday. 🙂
3) I’ve been asked to represent my department at work for a special study they are doing. This involved going to the other corporate office (the one that’s next to the Mall of America) last week for a training meeting, and today I am starting my workday out there for a half hour meeting.
4) Remember I told you my good friend Patti is moving away this year? Well, March 7th most of her furniture is being moved to us where we will give it a good home. I bought practically a whole house’s worth of furniture, and I am so excited! I feel like I’m going to be re-nesting! 🙂
Items 2 and 4 will take the most getting used to, but it’s fun! It’s almost like another New Year already!
You just never know what a month or two can bring! In preparation for what may occur, keep on smiling! 🙂
Calendar Page for July. Detail from Harley MS 4425, Roman de la Rose (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s this time of year, more than any other, that resolutions take center stage in conversations or brainstorming. Advertisers take advantage of this and provide us with endless solutions of how they can help us achieve the things we resolve to do or change about ourselves. No wonder we get tired of seeing commercial after commercial for fitness clubs and diet organizations.
As you might recall from earlier posts, I now have intentions – things I intend to pursue or work on. I even limit those to two at a time. But resolutions, for me, a recovering perfectionist, are harmful. Let me tell you about how resolutions have been in my life.
January 1st was always a fun day for me, as I would incorporate MANY new practices into my day. I’d go to bed that night pleased with myself that I had achieved so much. Ah, but that was only a facade. The real tests would come after the first day of the new year was over with.
I’d feel bad if I didn’t read a daily devotional book every single day, and worse yet, I’d often try to catch up and read two weeks’ worth of pages.
After a week or two of exercising every single day, I would just stop and give up.
“Oh well [sigh].” I often said that when giving up on something I couldn’t be “perfect” about.
Granted, it’s good to have ideas for ways you would like to change, but the danger comes in when you use those plans as a weapon against yourself or as an impossible measuring stick.
Weight loss diets are exactly like resolutions – they can make you feel like a failure if you can’t be perfect about it. Is this what we want for ourselves?
If you’re like me, you need to be patient with yourself and realize you are only one person, and you can’t change overnight – or at least, make changes that are long-lasting.
Any time of year is a good time to practice a new (or desired) skill – any time that you feel like it – yes, even July 21st.
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