LIFE, HEALTH & HAPPINESS FOR NORTH WHIDBEY’S 50-PLUS CROWD VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 7 • JANUARY 2017
Important Things To Remember
22 WAYS TO KICK-START YOUR NEW YEAR What are you going to do now to make sure you have your best year ever? What one thing will mean the difference in actually achieving your goals rather than chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? What can you do to enhance a specific aspect of your life? Think about it. This life is yours to make of it whatever you desire, so start now!
January 24 • 11:30 AM • FREE
1. Expand your thinking with new experiences. Each month for 30 days in a row, commit to doing something new that you have thought about doing, but have not done, and notice how it affects your life. Some possibilities: do aerobic exercise for 30 minutes, listen to only positive music, stop watching television, verbally appreciate at least 10 people a day, get eight hours of sleep, meditate for 20 minutes, do 20 minutes of yoga, read a self-help book every morning, call one of your children on the phone, write a handwritten thank-you note to someone, drink 10 glasses of water. Start this month and do one activity for the next 30 days in a row and then assess how it has impacted your life. I started doing this in July of 2009 and it has created the most magical year of my life. – Jack Canfield, co-founder of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
This month’s speaker is Mary Campbell with the Oak Harbor Public Library.
2. Write letters to three people in your life to let them know what they mean to you.
Senior Center Will Be Closed Monday January 2 & Monday, January 16, 2017
FITNESS CLASSES START! Mon, Wed, Fri • 2 PM • $25/month Come see us at the Senior Center to sign up or call Janiece Black at (360) 279-4583 for details.
BROWN BAG PRESENTATION
INTRODUCTION TO STORY TELLING STARTS Starts Thursday, January 12 • 1-3 PM $60/entire session Join us every Thursday for the next 10-weeks for these two-hour long classes.
REIKI HEALING CLASS Thursday, January 19 • 1-2 PM Free Free Reiki treatments to follow this class every Thursday, 1-2 PM at the Senior Center.
HOLISTIC HEALING CLASS January 24 • 1-2 PM • Free
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3. Make a commitment to fitness. Don’t just make a resolution and join a fitness center you won’t see after February – make a commitment and build fitness into your schedule. Join a class (at the Oak Harbor Senior Center!). 4. Find a volunteer opportunity. 5. Practice the one-a-day principle. You can’t delight everybody all the time but you can do something extraordinary for someone each day. Find a relative or a friend each day and do something remarkable. Using the one-a-day principle will make your life remarkable. 6. Increase your awareness of your thoughts. Become aware of what leaves your mouth by recording everything you say for at least an hour each day for the entire month. Words have power! When you listen carefully to your language, you will know whether or not you are moving with momentum and purpose toward your vision. If you catch yourself speaking about limitations or problems, give yourself the chance to look for solutions and possibilities.
7. Write a personal mission statement or mantra.
8. Lose other people’s opinions. Quit worrying about trying to please everyone. As Bill Cosby says, “I don’t know the key to success, but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” 9. Get a whole new hairstyle or haircut.
10. Keep friends close. My oldest friend is my former childhood friends from summer camp. We used to laugh that no matter how many months passed between conversations, we could still pick up as though we’d spoken yesterday. But a lot of time has passed – fast. Work schedules, family obligations: life gets in the way. She’s not the only out-of-state friend I’ve lost touch with, either. I’m working on taking time off for visits, but meantime I’ll reconnect the old-fashioned way by writing, sending cards throughout the year.
11. Clean out your closet and donate unwanted clothes to charity. NEW YEAR continued on page 2
INSIDE THIS EDITION Library Events...................... 3 Menu................................. 3 Calendar............................ 4 Inter-Generational Opportunity........................ 4 Travel................................ 5 Puzzles............................... 6 Brown Bag Lunch Series....... 6 Activities & Events................ 7 New Classes in 2017.......... 8