Articles On Information: The Little Things: What Was Your Life Made of This Year?

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"I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last 
forever, they don't notice the little things. It's only when the clock 
is ticking all those little things add up and become bigger." Shannon 
Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember</div>
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style="margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /></a>As the year winds down I am so 
acutely aware of each minute that ticks by. I take stock of what the 
aging year has produced and what hope the New Year holds. I think about 
what I've learned, hoping that I have learned a lot of things. I think 
about how much better off I am now than one year ago and I don't mean in
 terms of money. What I truly mean is in terms of personal growth and 
life experiences, which to me is so much more than money. It's the 
little moments of my life this year that I hope made the biggest impact 
on my soul and then I think if I can remember all of those little 
moments maybe they were the big things after all.</div>
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"Life is not 
made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of 
moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it." 
Sarah Ban Breathnach</div>
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In the spirit of honoring the year as it 
takes its final bow out of time I would like to leave you with a few of 
the moments/memories that have left an imprint on my soul. A trusted 
colleague calls this his annual review. It's made up of the very 
personal good and bad moments that made this year stand tall.</div>
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Perhaps
 you have had similar experiences but never thought to really pay them 
much heed or perhaps you will take these shared moments and watch for 
them in the new year or perhaps we are all on the same journey through 
time sharing similar experiences in our own unique perspective. 
Whichever way you honor the good and the bad of your life moments I hope
 you are better for them.</div>
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The most recent life moment I absolutely
 honor with grace and awe is the time spent celebrating my daughter's 
birthday. It wasn't a milestone birthday but it was a celebration of her
 birth nonetheless and that in itself deserves to make the list of 
little things.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"So much of life is in the smallness of moments... 
but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and 
occasions. People like to feel significant." Ally Condie, Atlantia</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Glancing over at the large picture window in my office and stopping everything to go sit in the sunshine streaming through.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"As
 the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the 
common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we 
should be particularly grateful. Just plain food that gives us strength;
 the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is 
warm." Laura Ingalls Wilder, Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls 
Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Meeting new people and realizing that their impact on my life, be it good or bad, changed me for the better.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"That's the ideal meeting... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again." Helen Oyeyemi</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Seeing a hummingbird for the first time in my life.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Some
 of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and 
burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an 
intangible, ephemeral blur." Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace</div>
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Silently
 celebrating the day after the first day of winter because for the next 
182 days we add one minute of daylight and hope blooms eternal.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"I
 find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and 
also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own." Sara Sheridan</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Sitting
 at my favorite coffee shop enjoying the smell while sipping my green 
tea and writing. I am not a coffee drinker at all but I love a good, 
old-fashioned, wrap me in warmth coffee shop.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"A smoke, a book, a 
cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this 
sometimes weary world and all the rainy days." R.M. Engelhardt, The 
Resurrection Waltz Poems</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Window shopping in the winter and seeing 
all the beautiful colors of the flowers in the flower shop on the most 
gray, snowy day of the season.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Somehow, those cold, lifeless 
winter months had prepared the land for something breathtaking. 
Something beautiful. Something brimming with life." Katie Ganshert, 
Wildflowers from Winter</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Laughing so hard when I'm supposed to be 
as quiet as a mouse. Whether it be at my job at the library as an adult 
or a teenager sitting in my English class I find that those quiet 
moments are the ones that really spark my uncontrollable laughter.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hearing the perfect song at a time of day when I needed it most.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Songs
 remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a 
laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the
 events and the people in it are dust and dreams are gone. That's the 
power of songs." - Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Raising my level of gratitude so much higher than I ever imagined it could go but battling still with moments of unhappiness.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Let
 gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly 
prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and 
welcome good." Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer</div>
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Understanding
 the lessons in why it's important to make quality decisions but not yet
 feeling able to make important decisions in my own life.</div>
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"The 
problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously.
 So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified 
that every choice might be the wrong choice." Elizabeth Gilbert, 
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage</div>
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Continuing to worry about the same problems year after year and finding it so hard to let it go or finding a solution.</div>
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"Who
 of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Therefore do not 
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
 enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:25-34 Anonymous, Holy Bible: 
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Thank you for your indulgence with my annual 
review of the little things. I hope it sparked something inside of you 
to help you take stock of your life this year and highlight what you 
want to work on and grow in the New Year.</div>
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Call to Action</div>
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How
 possible is it to mine each new day of the new year for little life 
moments, for the little things that flavor life with its sweetness? That
 is the call to action for you. Find the little things in each new day 
of the New Year and see how it changes you for the better.</div>
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What went well this year?</div>
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What did not go well this year?</div>
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Where does growth reside for you in the New Year?</div>
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What little things became the big thing after all?</div>
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    Lisa Zaccagnini: Founder of Journey On Coaching</div>
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