Taking on New Adventures

In what has felt like the longest year in history, we have finally made it to October 1. I don’t know why, but it sort of feels like a major accomplishment.

Today marks the final quarter of what has been the weirdest, hardest, strangest and most frustrating year I’ve ever experienced. But, it’s also been a year of enlightenment that has given me new and exciting challenges, better relationships and opened my eyes to what exactly I want to do moving forward.

Instead of New Year’s resolutions, I have made the decision to do a Q4 resolution. So in writing it down, here’s what I landed on what I want to do for the last 3 months of 2020:

• Take a trip a month, even if they are just short weekends somewhere
• Work out harder, not necessarily longer
• Work enough to make money to do the fun things, like travel, that I want to do
• Take time out to talk to my friends who don’t live in NOLA, via phone or video
• Take more photos when I’m out and about; I love looking back at what I experience and need to do that more

Overall, I think we could all spend the last 3 months of the year looking for joy, happiness and anything that makes us smile. So whatever we need to do personally to make that happen, I am all for that.

So on day 1 of the last 3 months of 2020, I worked out harder than I did earlier this week, ate something that I enjoyed and was healthy and spent some time outside breathing in the fresh Fall air. What have you done to bring some joy in your life?