• Day 14: Maintaining friendships as an introvert

    I am definitely not an extrovert. I love spending time in my own company, struggle with small talk at times and am happy staying home. This makes creating and maintaining friendships an interesting challenge. This lead me to creating “Connect with friends” as an intentional focus for this year. I am pleased to say I have made some new friends this year and deepened a couple of friendships. However, this has been more in bursts and not a consistent priority for me. In fact, if not for my daughter wanting to go out often, I probably wouldn’t get out as much as I do. I find it especially difficult to…

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  • Day 14: Maintaining friendships as an introvert

    I am definitely not an extrovert. I love spending time in my own company, struggle with small talk at times and am happy staying home. This makes creating and maintaining friendships an interesting challenge. This lead me to creating “Connect with friends” as an intentional focus for this year. I am pleased to say I have made some new friends this year and deepened a couple of friendships. However, this has been more in bursts and not a consistent priority for me. In fact, if not for my daughter wanting to go out often, I probably wouldn’t get out as much as I do. I find it especially difficult to…

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  • Day 5: My 2014 “goals” and intentional focus

    I am not a person who does New Year’s resolutions in general. The start of this year was a whirlwind of random God encounters. I had no idea of the journey the year had in store for me yet. I had come into contact with the Hello Mornings community (read more on that here). I then came across the My One Word movement around the time that I had been feeling prompted to develop more focus for what I wanted out of this year. I chose the word “Intentional” for 2014. I felt I needed more though. I needed to figure out what my priorities were. I needed to articulate…

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