Meaningful Journey

March 31- Happy Easter

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Enjoy time with family or friends."

Happy Easter everyone!

March 26- Meaningful

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Do something meaningful."

Nothing too special about today. Yet! Take today as a chance to do something meaningful for either yourself or for someone else. I plan on putting the event on my calendar to remember it a year from now!

March 25- Simplify

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Simplify."

Of all the reasons are lives are complicated, who is in charge of how we react? As controller of your own destination and of the trip you take to get there, take the some to simplify your life today. No more drama for your moma. Just enjoy the simple things.

March 23- Organize

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Organize your home, office, car, etc."
Today is National Organize your home or office day. We challenge you to join us in getting organized...maybe if it even is organizing your thoughts!

March 22- Honesty

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Be honest with yourself."

With all of the pressure our world puts on us to be perfect, sometimes we can get ahead of ourselves and end up doing more harm than good. Today we take a bit of a reality check and be completely honest with ourselves. Tell yourself where you really are in life and what you really should be doing to get to where you want to be.

March 21- Memory Day

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Help our memory."

Today look back on your life and try to remember small things. Today maybe log in to the computer and play a memory game. Today learn something to make more connections in your brain. Today look through all pictures and challenge yourself to the season, day of year that photo was taken. Lastly, today, eat foods that help our brain: foods high in omega 3 such as fish oil, fish, flax seed, seeds, nuts, spices, oregano and cloves.

March 20- SPRING!

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Spring into joy."

It is finally Spring...winter is over. I wrote joy instead of happiness because I once read that happiness is temporary. Phillipians in the KJV Life Application Study Bible says, "everyone wants to be happy; we make chasing this elusive ideal a lifelong pursuit; spenind money, collecting things, and searching for new experiences. But if happiness depends on our circumstances, what happens when the toys rust, loved ones dies, health deterorates, money is stolen, and the party's over?"

"In contrast to happiness stands joy. Running deeper and stronger, joy is the quiet, confident assurance of God's love and work in our lives- that he will be there no matter what! Happiness depends on happenings, buy joy depends on Christ."

March 19- Ag Day

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Plant a seed."

This is meant to be physically planing seeds into the ground to observe National Agriculture Day, however, if you don't have that green thumb, maybe you can plant a seed of love, kindness, advice, or faith.

March 18- Two Sided

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Consider the other side of the story."

How many times do we fall into such a tunnel vision that we don't even consider the other person's point of view? Today lets consider all sides before deciding for ourselves.

March 16- Three series: Show up

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Show up to work or events today with kindness, love and gratitude."

Whatever may be the task at hand today, show up with kindness, love and gratitude. Maybe you have to go into work and you are dreading having to show up on a weekend. Today be grateful for your job. Whatever the case may be today, be kind to others (kindness is contagious and just takes one person to initiate it to spread to others), love one another (the greatest gift is love), and be grateful (gratitude brings forth happiness).

March 15- Three series: Speak Up

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Don't be afraid to speak up."

Do you try to be self sufficient and do things on your own but really could use some help? Today speak up and allow others to help you. This might be quite a task for some, but if you give it a try, you might learn a little more about yourself and others who might have been waiting for you to ask for help. Go ahead, give it a try!

March 14- Three Series: Stand Up

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself."

Do you sometimes feel like you don't stand up for yourself and get walked all over? If this is the case, today learn to be confident in yourself. Stand your ground and let others know that your opinion matters. The way in which we stand up for ourselves will speak a lot about us...so let's stand up for ourselves in a respectful, calm, and collective way. Give it a try!

March 13- Compliments

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Compliment people."

This has to be one of my all time favorite challenges. One should never get tired of complimenting people. How do you feel when you get complimented? Makes you feel good...right? Let's make others feel good today by sharing nice admiring words. Below are ideas:

March 12- Brighter Days

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Today on our meaningful journey, we challenge ourselves to:

"Brighten the day for those around us."

Two days after daylight savings, and I know I'm not getting enough sleep yet! Here in the Midwest, we keep being teased with good weather too. Despite that, lets look beyond our personal woes, and change the day for others today!

March 8- Chance

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Take a chance."

One of my favorite quotes from Dumb and Dumber is:
"Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million.
[pause]
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance.

Has there always been something you wanted to do, but were too scared to take a chance..too scared of failure or maybe even success? Have there been words you wanted to tell someone, but were fearful of how they would be received. Today follow your heart and have confidence in the chance(s) you have always wanted to take.

March 7- Nourishment

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Nourish your relationships."

Think about your relationship with your spouse, significant other, family and friends. Today take the time to focus on building up and nourishing your relationship with one specific person you have a relationship with. In order for a flower to blossom and flourish, it has to be cared for and nourished.

March 6- Heart Healthy

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Exercise for your heart."

Isn't it amazing how our brain controls different parts of our body...however our heart beats without us even thinking about it. Every day it beats on it's own. Amazing...right?!? Today let's keep that heart strong and exercise our body, building up more muscle, cleaning out our arteries, so our heart doesn't have to work as hard to beat.

March 5- Prayer for you

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Say a little prayer for someone."

Do you know someone who could use a prayer? Maybe someone is struggling with decisions, a disease, or an addiction. Let's send up a prayer for this person. Whether it be a prayer for strength, courage, hope, etc. prayer is powerful.

March 4- Beauty Shared

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Find something beautiful and share it with someone."

With all of the beauty we are surrounded by in our lives, what are some beautiful things we can share with others? For me, I'm a sucker for sunrises and sunsets. Feel free to share below!

February 28- Smile

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Smile at everyone you come across today in an effort to make them smile too."

Smiling is contagious! Lets spread the happiness.

February 27- Getting Ahead

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Work on and get ahead on a project you've been working on."

One of these days we'll get back on track! ;-)

February 25- Something New

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Do something you've never done for someone today."

Is there ever a better time than now to do something that hasn't been done? Lets make it our mission to accomplish this today!

Sorry for the lull in challenges. The winter storm last week has scrambled our brains a bit and we lost track of Meaningful Journey. Hope everyone is well!

February 21- Card Reading

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Give someone a card."

Celebrate card reading day by giving someone a card to read. Maybe you have a friend, spouse or family member in mind who could use a smile, laugh, or kind words.

February 20- Pet Love

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Treat our pets out."

Today is Love Your Pet Day... so to remember this day, let's treat our pets extra special. Maybe take our dogs for a nice walk or give your pet a new treat.

February 17- Almighty

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Today on our Meaningful Journey, we challenged ourselves to:

"Keep in mind the Almighty One."

Sometimes, if your like me, I get caught up in staying busy and rarely have time to myself except for in the car. A lot of times that is my time to reflect. Tomorrow think about the one who created this world, people, animals, land and sea. Think about the great blessings he has given us.