year in review: 2024 plans
Dec. 31st, 2023 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatI started using the Delightful app a while ago. (Okay, I checked: December 18, 2021) At first I was doing the 'three things you're grateful for today' thing, because I've read a lot about how gratitude is good for you.
But I love checking things off my to-do list, which means I usually want to do the 'three good things' in the app early in the day -- waiting till the evening isn't great for me. So I switched to 'three things I'm looking forward to today,' which I love, and which feels much more action-oriented.
After a couple years, though, it's been feeling a little repetitive. I'm looking forward to seeing the sun, to taking a walk outdoors, to eating good food and drinking good coffee, to hugging my family and patting my cat. All those things are still true! But I was wondering about ways to mix it up a little.
Then I read this 2023 CNN article (Share the 17 syllables a day that changed your lives, by Tess Taylor), which turned out to be a reference to a 2022 article by the same author (How 17 syllables a day can change your life).
Did I miss the 2022 article entirely? Did I see the headline and skip it deliberately? Did I read it and then forget about it? I have no idea, but I read it this year and it spoke to me. So I'm trying it! Three lines, three things? A natural fit! Anyway, we'll see how it goes. But I feel invigorated for another year of looking forward to the same good things, this time in haiku form!
“If you have a creative practice,” he says, “you have this force within you, a way of meeting your life wherever it is.”
(-quote from Luke Rodehorst, in Tess Taylor's article 'How 17 syllables a day can change your life')
But I love checking things off my to-do list, which means I usually want to do the 'three good things' in the app early in the day -- waiting till the evening isn't great for me. So I switched to 'three things I'm looking forward to today,' which I love, and which feels much more action-oriented.
After a couple years, though, it's been feeling a little repetitive. I'm looking forward to seeing the sun, to taking a walk outdoors, to eating good food and drinking good coffee, to hugging my family and patting my cat. All those things are still true! But I was wondering about ways to mix it up a little.
Then I read this 2023 CNN article (Share the 17 syllables a day that changed your lives, by Tess Taylor), which turned out to be a reference to a 2022 article by the same author (How 17 syllables a day can change your life).
Did I miss the 2022 article entirely? Did I see the headline and skip it deliberately? Did I read it and then forget about it? I have no idea, but I read it this year and it spoke to me. So I'm trying it! Three lines, three things? A natural fit! Anyway, we'll see how it goes. But I feel invigorated for another year of looking forward to the same good things, this time in haiku form!
“If you have a creative practice,” he says, “you have this force within you, a way of meeting your life wherever it is.”
(-quote from Luke Rodehorst, in Tess Taylor's article 'How 17 syllables a day can change your life')
