Category: happiness project
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Our Journey to Find a New Home
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The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, as we have been house hunting. It seems like we’ve had to deal with a lot in such a short space of time – from looking for home inspectors Lynchburg, failing to send bids in time, last-minute home tours, the list goes…
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And…We Are Now a One Income Family
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Sean lost his job. This news came on Thursday, unexpectedly, devastatingly, on Thursday. Things have been tight with both of us working. Ends won’t quite meet with one salary. We already knew our monthly finances, since I’d designated this month to be “Finance Month” in the Happiness Project. I had…
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Happiness Project: Some Thoughts on Energy
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January’s Happiness Project topic around these parts was “Energy.” About a month ago, I announced that I’d be tackling this list of items … so how did I do? Sleep, and getting a new bed – check! We got our new bed set up last night and it’s like a…
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Happiness Project: February Topic! Finances
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Welcome to February, friends! I’d been mulling over what my “Happiness Project” topic would be for February. I’m going to admit, I was completely set on “Body” until about two days ago. With taxes coming due, and with the constant money discussions at our house, I changed my mind. Finances…
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Happiness Project: Energy: Living it With Routines
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I’ve been trying my hardest to live my Energy month as “high energy” as I can. Here’s some of what I do each day, many of which are routines that make good sense for anyone, really. I’ve just been trying my hardest to keep them in practice. Source: Etsy…
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Happiness Project: Life Lessons, My List of the “Secrets of Adulthood”
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As part of the Happiness Project, I’ve been thinking about some my favorite “life lessons.” Here they are, true, funny, real…and here I am, dancing in my front yard to celebrate 🙂 Read the instructions all the way through before you startMeasure twice, cut onceSpeak your mind, even if your…
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Happiness Project: Energy: Sleep and a New Bed
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One of the primary things I identified in my “Energy” month is sleep. There are a couple of aspects of sleep that I wanted to tackle; both the amount of sleep I get and the quality of sleep I have been getting. Source: thedesigninspiration.com via Elaine on Pinterest So the…
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Whoever is Happy Will Make Others Happy, too
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“Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.” -Anne Frank This last week I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “courage.” One of the roots of this word, and a term that has been rattling in my…
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Happiness Project: 12 Topics To Tackle
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Happiness can be found on the beach 🙂 While the title of this post sounds a bit like it’s a bit like a project manager’s rendition of “12 days of Christmas,” I had a little something different in mind. As Gretchen Rubin decided to do in her own Happiness Project,…