Happy New Year! Ten Questions to Get Ready for 2020
Coach Beverly, Taryn and Robert wish everyone a Happy New Year. To get ready for 2020, we have highlighted 10 questions that help to wrap up 2019. Ending the year intentionally helps to savor successes, make peace with mistakes, and allow change in the new year to power those resolutions.
10 Questions to Intentionally Get Ready for 2020
- What made this year unforgettable?
- What did you enjoy doing this year?
- What/who is the one thing/person you’re grateful for?
- What’s your biggest win this year?
- What did you read/watch/listen to that made the most impact on you this year?
- What did you worry about most and how did it turn out?
- What was your biggest regret and why?
- What’s one thing that you changed about yourself?
- What surprised you the most this year?
- If you could go back to last January 1, what suggestions would you give your past self?
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]Happy Kwanzaa!
Continuing our week of kindness, we celebrate Kwanzaa, a holiday dedicated to acknowledging seven guiding principles of life.
Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
Kwanzaa is a week-long annual celebration held in the United States and other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas to honor African heritage in African-American culture. It is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in gift-giving and a feast. Kwanzaa has seven core principles. Wikipedia
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:[13]
- Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
- Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
- Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
- Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Coach Beverly and family. Sending you warm winter wishes for peace, joy and love!
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams
Read more about the kindness movement at Random Acts of Kindness.
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]Happy Las Posadas!
As we continue our kindness theme, enjoy this quote from the 1700’s that still resonates today. We wish you safe travels and joyful moments.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen Grellet
Read more about the kindness movement at Random Acts of Kindness.
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]HumanLight Celebration
HumanLight is a Humanist celebration on December 23rd to focus on the “positive, secular human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope”. The use of candles to symbolize reason, hope, compassion, and humanity has become widespread among those celebrating. Groups today also observe the HumanLight holiday using charity work, gift exchanges, and other ideas associated with holidays and celebrations.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]Happy Hanukkah!
On this first night of Hanukkah, we celebrate the festival of lights and acts of kindness. A little light goes a long way.
The Hanukkah candles are lit when dusk is falling. Perched in the window, they serve as a beacon for the darkening streets. No matter how dark it is outside, a candle of goodness can transform the darkness itself into light.
Acts of kindness never die. They linger in the memory, giving life to other acts in return.
Jonathan Sacks, From Optimism to Hope
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[yikes-mailchimp form=”1″]Happy Solstice! 7 Ways to Inspire Kindness this Holiday Season
Coach Beverly, Taryn and Robert wish everyone Happy Holidays!
Since we will be spending time with our families and loved ones, the office will be closed from December 23 – December 27.
During this time of reflection and celebration, we will not be posting our usual blogs. Instead, we will post a daily message of kindness inspired by a host of holidays. This is a small gesture of gratitude for your service and dedication to the diabetes community.
With a heart full of thanks from all of us at Diabetes Education Services.
7 Ways to Make Kindness the Norm:
- Send an uplifting text to a friend or family member.
- Let that guy next to you merge into traffic with a wave and a smile.
- Include intentional moments of kindness, laughter, and delight in your daily routine.
- Go slightly out of your comfort zone at least once a day to make someone smile.
- Share a compliment with a co-worker or friend.
- Reach out to a family member you haven’t spoken to in a while.
- Treat someone to a cup of coffee.
Read more about the kindness movement at Random Acts of Kindness.
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