How To Make Each Day Count

A gentle way to ACE each day for a well-lived year

Photo by Callie Gibson on Unsplash

In the past I have written about new year resolutions, goal setting and tools that I use. From choosing a journal to picking a word for the year, there are different ways to get through each day, with the intention that it will all add up to a well-lived year.

Now that we’re into the second half of February 2023, I looked at the ways in which I have done things differently this year.

In January, I filled in my Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023 journal and laid out three things I would like to focus on for the first quarter. But I also signed up for a three-week wayfinder challenge which involved a pact — an action that I committed to repeat for a duration of three weeks.

The joy of learning

For my pact, I chose to practice crochet for fifteen minutes each day. The goal was not to create a useful product but to simply apply myself to a task that was unfamiliar to me. I made mistakes, stabbed myself with the crochet hook and unraveled large portions of my early creations when I noticed my errors.

I couldn’t remember the last time I had been fascinated by something so simple and absorbing. Most days, I spent more than fifteen minutes. In fact, one Sunday morning, I woke up feeling an…