What will you remember about 2019? Beyond current news events, how will you categorize the year in terms of your life? Good or bad? Landmark or uneventful?
Knowing how a year can disappear faster than an open box of Girl Scout cookies, I grabbed an idea from a random Facebook post to help combat memory fade. I call it Moments in a Jar. (Please take credit if this is your original concept.)
Last January I designated an empty glass canister to be the receptacle in which my son and I would place the year’s highlights. With slips of paper and a marker stashed conveniently next to the canister, we wrote down noteworthy happenings throughout the year and put them inside. It took some discipline to document game wins, good grades and special events, but we enjoyed seeing the jar fill up with paper. Recorded events need not be earth-shattering. If it made us smile long enough to write it on a piece of paper, it was good enough for the jar.
As the battery runs low on 2019, it will soon be time to review our efforts. On New Year’s Day 2020, after we have eaten our black-eyed peas, my son and I will read through the “moments.” I can’t wait to remember what I’ve already forgotten!
>>>Come back to this page after Jan. 6, 2020, to see an image of our 2019 moments.
To enhance the process for the coming year --continuous improvement is important!-- we will also include a slip of paper with a few goals for 2020. New Year’s Day 2021 we can measure our progress. Consider it a gentler alternative to New Year’s resolutions.
Join us in making 2020 a year to remember. As the year is hurtling by grab some paper and capture the gratitude and love, the achievement and change, the learning and the fun.
May you have a blessed new year and a jar full of paper!
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