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Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Excellent Information Jar

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Chuffed New 12 months! Whereas we don’t make resolutions on this family, we do have a phenomenal household custom that we began three years in the past. It’s referred to as The Just right New Jar, and the premise is understated.

Beginning on January 1^st, every time certainly one of us has excellent information, we share it, then write it on a bit of paper, fold it up, and add it to the jar. My daughter adorned the label when she used to be 4 years previous, and it’s a keeper.

The Good News Jar

On New Year’s Day, we go through the amassed years’ worth of “good news” papers and reminisce about what we were fortunate to experience in the year that’s come to an end. The notes include things we were proud of and fun times we shared.

Some of the highlights for 2014 were Aubrey (age 3) learning to swim and skate by himself; Kasey (age 7) completing her first cross-country race and winning a cooking contest; mommy signing a contract to write a cookbook; and daddy successfully planning a conference to bring judges and lawyers together, and becoming a frequent guest on CTV News. But the best news of all were the notes that marked the success of my niece Jessica’s surgery to remove a brain tumor, and discontinuation of her chemotherapy.

As we read through the roughly 100 “good news” papers, we relive the highs (and sometimes corresponding lows that led to the highs), laugh about the good times we shared as a family, and plan to head into 2015 hoping to collect more good news.

And sometimes, what we strive for in the forthcoming year can percolate out of the good news that was lacking. In 2014 ,there was no good news about doing volunteer work as a family or taking enough vacation days, which highlight possible errors we made, and serve as reminders about what we can strive for next year. Reflective rather than reactive.

A resolution is defined as “a firm decision to do or not to do something,” and it’s the firmness that’s most people’s downfall. When we trip up, we give up. Instead, with no firm resolutions set in stone, we can move into 2015 with an idea of what was right about 2014, and try our best to collect even more “good news” papers in the coming year.