Skip to main content

The Decade Journal – Page 60
Notating Your Life In One Paragraph a Day



This is the exact hard-cover journal that I use and recommend for use as your Decade Journal.  This is an Amazon Affiliate link, and if you order through this link, I may receive a small percentage.  It does not affect your purchase price.


Page 60 - February 29, 2020

This is my 15th Leap Year Day.  And, I don’t remember any of them as “being special.”  No photos, no events, no special meals. Nope. Do we need a new tradition for Leap Year Day?  I think it is time!

So, I am going to make this Leap Year Day memorable and establish a NEW personal tradition!
The action or purchase I was going to do for myself (i.e. the treat, the meal at the restaurant, the coffee at the coffee shop, etc.)…. I am going to have that action, purchase, or small luxury item - LEAP to another person! 

So, join me in creating a  NEW Leaping Unicorn “Pay-it-Forward” Leap Year Day!

Just as Martin Luther King Day has become known as a day focused on community service (which many of us do throughout the year, anyway), let’s make Leap Year Day focused on taking our “treat”  or “luxury” or “extravagant” thing that we were going to do for ourselves, and give it to another person. 

This is my 15th Leap Year Day.  And, really…. I don’t remember any of them as “being special.”  No photos, no events, no special meals. Nada.

I say this with shame, because I have been a “Bible-thumping” Christian for most of my life.  Yet, I have lived missing the wisdom of the Lord, in so many ways.   I didn’t ever think about what this Scripture really meant: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12 KJV

So, my days have slipped by.  Eroded, like the sand that used to cover the exposed “desert cobblestone” here in Quartzsite.  Today, I thought, “I should make Leap Year Day a special event, a kind of personalized holiday.” A mile marker in my life, so I can REMEMBER what I did last Leap Year’s Day, and assess my life over the past four years, as well as plot out some objectives or achievements that I would like to add into my life over the next four year period. 

#LeapYearDay  #PayItForward #DecadeJournal #TheDecadeJournal #NumberMyDays 

And one of the great things is you can START ON ANY DAY!! 
You know exactly what TODAY’s Page number is!!
And, perhaps you get busy, and miss a day, or several days…. NO PROBLEM!! You simply enter the information for TODAY.   This is the beginning of a new decade, and you have an opportunity to build a journal about YOUR life. 

Start YOUR Decade Journal now!  

 This is an Amazon Affiliate link, and if you order through this link, The Decade Journal will receive a small percentage (it does not affect your purchase price).  





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Three R's of the Decade Journal - Day 79

Remember to do the 3R’s sometime today. Usually, I write mine after dinner, but before heading off to bed for the night.  Simply write a brief paragraph of two to four sentences on page 79 of your Decade Journal, which will be used each year for March 19th. Review  Think through the things that you have done this very normal day. What was different today? What happened that involved choices or meetings with people? Select the details you are going to write. Record  Briefly record the two or three things that are noteworthy. These are things that may reflect YOUR personal values and goals. I might record that my sunflowers first opened a blossom, but you may record that your dog got their stitches out. You may have had a chance meeting with an old colleague, or cleaned out the shed. Record the things that don’t happen every day, but are different than the usual routine. These are usually the things that are the “marker” events in our minds and memories....
Post a Comment
Read more

What is a Decade Journal and Why Make One?

What is a Decade Journal, and Why Make One? What is a Decade Journal? The Decade Journal is a multiple-year journal briefly capturing each day's events.  On a single page, there will be an accumulation of the past years' memories on each  day, each holiday, each birthday, etc. This process provides many benefits, and I will share some of them over the next few months. Why Make One? Our brain is a powerful tool, and as we make multiple "hits" to a particular memory event, it "cements" it in our memory "file."  We are actually "remembering" the day's events four times as we do the journal entry.  The process is a mental one, and actual writing being usually only a brief two to four sentences. REVIEW: Mentally review the the days' events, and  SORT: Mentally weigh importance and sort  the events into an order for writing them down, then  RECORD: Compose and write the event down, and finally REFLECT: Thinking about your o...
Post a Comment
Read more