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NEW challenges for the NEW year..and what I’m into lately

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Happy NEW year! (How can it be Jan 10th already!?!)

I don’t particularly do “resolutions” but I do like a good challenge. It makes things fun. So here are my 2025 challenges:

Reading challenges:

Read at least 52 books

Read 12 books in the 12 different time periods suggested at “When Are Your Reading Challenge)

Read all books by a certain author (I think my best shot at doing this is reading all of Susan Meissner’s books).

Travel challenges:

I already have my travel challenges ongoing. Visiting 100 waterfalls and all of the National Parks. We’ll be doing quite a bit of traveling this year, so I’m sure it will be easy to add to these lists, but here are a few marked for this year:

Visit Acadia NP, New River Gorge NP, Indiana Dunes NP, Cuyahoga Valley NP, Shenandoah NP and Gateway Arch NP.

And of course, visiting Iguazu Falls is happening this year. Yay!

Physical challenges:

Do another (or multiple) 30-day steps challenge (might be easy as we’re hiking to waterfalls!).

Do a 30-day yoga challenge

Ride on 20 (NEW-to-you) bike trails.

And lastly, what am I into???

Junk journals and art journals! I LOVE looking on Pinterest at creative art journals and watching videos about making junk journals. I’ve got one of each started (one art journal and one junk journal). My plan is for the junk journal to be vintage looking and I’ll be answering questions from a book my son gave me a few years ago called, “Tell me your story, MOM”. The art journal will be more vibrant and I will do some decoupage, watercolor, digital art, and other types of art. I created all of the images in this post with AI (Midjourney). I will use the image above as a focal point in one of my collages. That might seem like cheating, but anything goes in my journals, haha!

That’s it for my 2025 plans. My interests might change next week and I might be into something totally NEW and different! I’ll let you know. Maybe sometime I should do a blogging challenge and try to update this site a bit more regularly, haha! Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day and that you get to learn or do something NEW today! Take care!

NEW November challenges

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Happy Friday and happy November!

I love the start of a NEW week, a NEW month or a NEW year! How about you? As Gretchen Rubin says, the calendar can be a catalyst. She even created a Calendar of Catalysts (link here if you’re interested).

I thought I’d blog about my goals for November. That will keep me accountable, right!?! I always try to challenge myself in a few different areas such as physical, spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional, financial, etc. So, here are my 3 November challenges:

Physical: Walk 11k steps daily

Intellectual: Read at least 6 books this month

Emotional: Do the Action For Happiness Challenge: New Ways November

Just this morning, I learned about the Action For Happiness site from Deb’s World blog. I thought this would be awesome, because as you know, I LOVE trying NEW things! Here’s their November Calendar. I’ll report back at the end of the month on how I did!

I’d better go and start getting some steps in! Take care and have a lovely day. I hope you get to learn or do something NEW today!

a NEW Thursday thought

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Today’s NEW thought:

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

You can see my photo walk last Sunday morning had a definite color theme eh? I really want to make a NEW habit of taking photo walks regularly.  We’ll just have to see if every walk turns out to have a theme.  Maybe…maybe not.  Have a great day!  Do, learn or WALK somewhere NEW!

a NEW hiking experience – going solo

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Happy Saturday!  Today’s ‘challenge’ from the 28-day challenge I’m doing was to take a hike.  Again, this wasn’t really that challenging, because I live so close to the mountains.  But what was NEW to me, was going for a hike…SOLO.  I think I’ve always had someone with me before! To be honest and truthful, it was a bit freaky because I chose a very STEEP hike and not too many people were on the trail.  My mind kept thinking…’If I tumble off this cliff, no one would even know!’ 🙂  But I didn’t fall off the cliff and here is a collage of my trek.  I think I’ll do it more often….maybe I’ll get over my ‘solo-hiking anxiety’….as long as I stay away from the edge 🙂

Have a great day and learn or do something NEW!