Amanda

Oct

01

Today’s Resolution: Say No When You Want to Say No

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As a “yes” person you might find a billion reasons to make other people happy even when it’s at the sake of putting yourself in debt, getting thrown into awkward situations, or being used as a doormat. And it’s not because you’re a sucker, because you’re well aware of when you’re being used and abused by “takers”, but sometimes you just think you’re a superhero. Well, if you’re a “yes” person and you need a day off, today is the day to say no.

Sep

30

Today’s Resolution: Make Good Decisions

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If you have to think too hard about a decision, you’re probably weighing the good and the bad a little too much. Today, if the good doesn’t easily outweigh the bad today in the decisions that you’re making, then you know what to do. Every day we make good and bad choices. Sometimes we know how good or bad they are immediately, and others take hours, days, maybe even years to come to the surface. So today’s resolution is to make good decisions—the best that you can, in the time allotted.

Sep

29

Today’s Resolution: Eat Cake

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It’s my birthday today. So, your very simple and tasty resolution (along with mine) is to eat cake. Cheers!

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Sep

28

Today’s Resolution: Look Like a Million Bucks

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Let’s face it, not even celebrities can look their best every day. However, with their big bank accounts and spending sprees, they can certainly look like a million bucks when they decide to hit the town. Today your goal is simple. Pay a little extra attention to how you feel when dressing and going out today. There’s certainly an outfit in your closet that makes you feel like a million bucks when you wear it. Feel good today.

Sep

27

Today’s Resolution: Complete a Pinterest Project (or Any Other Personal Project)

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Oh hey, have you met Pinterest? It’s the giant multi-million user social network where people store favorite design ideas, craft projects and photo inspirations that they (at some point), hope to complete themselves. Even if you’re not on Pinterest, there’s surely a project you’ve been hoping to work on when you get to it. The truth is that there will always be other things to do. So today your resolution is to use your free time to either complete a project, or to at least plan when you’re going to complete it.

Sep

26

Today’s Resolution: Don’t Get Distracted

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Distractions are everywhere. When I get distracted it’s usually by something else I should have done at one point, but seems to be more fulfilling than what I’m supposed to be doing right now. I dub this effort “productive procrastination”. So for today, your resolution is not to impose productive procrastination time, but to actually just avoid distractions. Don’t “kill time” with anything that’s not actually a to-do for the day. By avoiding distractions, you might just find that your day ends a little earlier and a little prouder than on previous days. You might actually enjoy more free time! And that’s all we really want more of, right?

Sep

25

Today’s Resolution: Learn a Savvy New Skill

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Everyone has friends that have a skill they’re envious of, whether it’s knowing how to fix a toilet, play a ukelele, or whistle with a blade of grass. You probably have several skills that other people look to you for guidance about. Today your resolution is to learn a new skill. Preferably, ask somebody to teach you how it is that they do what they do. If not, there are plenty of YouTube tutorials to go around.

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May

30

#152 Complete: Went House Shopping

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Today’s Resolution: Pretend-Shop for Your Dream House

So you know, whatever… we took this one to the extreme today by actually meeting with a real estate agent and checking out some houses. I fell madly in love with one in Lecanto, FL. It was all newly painted, had two rooms for separate offices, a sweet guest bedroom, three bathrooms, and a giant freaking indoor pool in the middle of it that you can see from almost every room. Oh yeah, and the kitchen windows open to the pool.

And yeah that was pretty much my dream house today. We decided that the only thing that could have made it better was a little more room on the sides of the house for a wee bit more privacy. Also a fence for Napa, but we could put one of those in. Ohhh and the pool was all tile which means Napa could swim as much as he wanted to.

Obviously we’re having too much fun down here.

 

May

25

#147 Complete: Made Orange Juice from Scratch

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Today’s Resolution: Make Something From Scratch

We’ve been murdering oranges left and right down here in Florida, I really can’t get enough. Generally it starts with me squeezing with all my might, and then Patrick comes in with man hands and obliterates the thing. Still, the oranges we’re getting don’t make a heck of a lot of oranges.

Tomorrow I’m buying an electric juicer.

May

23

#145 Complete: Tried a New Route, Felt Like We Were on LOST

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Today’s Resolution: Drive a New Route Home

Since we arrived in the south, we’ve been explorers. We’ve been eating everywhere and seeing everything. Our ride home, however, usually ends at our street where we drive straight to the house we’re renting. Patrick’s idea for this resolution was to keep driving past our street because we thought that maybe there would be some new hidden restaurants (there are so many awesome ones down here).

Well, we were wrong. About 30 seconds past our street is a scary dead end that leads directly into the water. And the surrounding streets are just as spooky; mostly littered with dead ends and giant tropical trees, plants and noises. We really thought we were dropped right into the set of LOST.

So we probably won’t be heading that way again but we did give imaginary high-fives to Hurley, Jack and Sawyer while we were in the jungle hunting for polar bears.