2019 Goal 1
The day after Christmas is a day of rest for me. With my family there is never JUST Christmas day. My oldest daughter Brittany and her fiance came out for a week right before Christmas. The Friday before Christmas we went out to the Black Hills to see my brother and his family so it was like a Christmas--then we had Christmas Eve at my In-Laws, Christmas morning with my own family, and Christmas dinner with my mom. It has been like this for years--and as exhausting as it is--I finally feel I have adjusted to it. However on the 26th--I am do absolutely NOTHING.
When visiting my brother I slept wrong and messed up my neck--every morning the pain has moved to a new location. I have never really been through anything like this and I have a new found sympathy for anyone that has chronic neck pain or headaches. I feel quite limited on a lot of things and am a tad cranky.
As I wasted the day in my comfortable new blanket--(a great gift from my brothers' family) I went back and forth between old episodes of Dr. Phil and the Cary Grant marathon on TCM. Oh Cary Grant was so handsome and such a great physical, expressive actor. We are now sitting in a blizzard warning for the rest of the week so my family is basically stuck home. Hopefully we stay warm, not have a power outage, and still love each other when the storm passes.
I am actually looking forward to 2019. And I hope you are too. I never really know where to start when it comes to New Years Resolutions. They are usually so outrageous like--I am going to look like I did in High School--I am going to lose 100 pounds. Or I am going to work out everyday--and pay a stupid amount of money to a gym that I will never go to. The fact is--we all set ourselves up for some sort of failure. So how about we start off our changes slowly? So instead of setting up New Years Resolutions I am going to commit to a 30 days of change challenge. Little things that will make a big difference in my life.
My first challenge is Cleaning UP my social media. I am a business owner, I am an exchange coordinator, a book keeper for my husbands trucking business and a blogger. I have used Facebook as a huge outlet for all of these things. Not only that but I have Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever else is needed to promote what needs to be promoted.
Have you ever looked at some of the Facebook Groups you are in? I checked out mine and I was floored to see how many groups I am in. Weight groups, money budgeting groups, recipe groups, political groups, rummage sale groups, direct sales groups, groups people added me to because they had a party, clothing groups, Pre-Code movies, Favorite Actor/Actress groups, Favorite TV show groups, Favorite movie groups, groups the motivate you, livestock for sale groups, I mean NEED I go on? I am in A LOT of groups. That is not including Facebook pages I have "Liked". Like 5000 pages.
Are you struggling seeing what your friends are writing on Facebook--it has a lot to do with the pages you like. Facebook gets paid to promote pages--I have also paid to have Facebook to promote my businesses and the paid get priority. So you are flooded with those pages. Facebook also knows what you like or don't like so they use that to flood your feed. So how do you stop this? Well you can click "take a 30 day break" from a page or simply click "unfollow" --or just click the "unlike" button. I found I saw a lot more of what my friends were doing by taking the 30 day break from pages.
So let's talk about the friends list--I love Facebook when I first signed up for Facebook and connected with friends from High School, College, old co-workers and of course family. There was so much nostalgia and I really fell in love with the purpose of the app. Now that I have had Facebook for 9 years I have realized that we don't really need to hang onto that nostalgia. I have lifelong friends, new friends, friends from other countries and Facebook is still incredibly important to me. What I have realized is that it is OK to let people go, and let them let YOU go. We change. I am not who I was in 1992, or even 2002. Some don't want you to change, some love the change, and others HATE the change. NO ONE has the time for HATE
I truly feel that when it comes to your friend list and it doesn't matter if you have 100 friends or 1000 friends. 20% are there for you. 40% probably can't read your status, 20% have unfollowed you, and the final 20% just love to watch you crash and burn. So make it your goal in 2019 to see where everyone stands on your list and in your life. And if they have unfollowed you or enjoy watching you crash in burn get RID of them. Also Facebook gives you the option to make friend lists. Take advantage of that--I have a family list, and a business list. They work well. Helpful hint--want to know if you are on a friends' restrictive list? If you visit a friends' profile and all of the posts you see are public, or just "tagged" posts you are most likely on their restrictive list. Restrictive means only "public" or "tagged" posts can be seen by you while others can see everything. In all honesty--it makes you a little bitter--but it also puts them on the list to be deleted. Surround yourself with a friendship list that loves and supports you. Because THAT is what we need in 2019.
So sort through your friend list in 2019. Make a few friend lists, leave a few groups and unlike a few pages. See who is being true to you and be true to your friends. I tend to get a little political sometimes on Facebook so I am staying in a few political groups and unliking all the political pages. The less I deal with trolls, or people who just want to pick a fight or vice versa--me wanting to pick a fight with them the better off I will be.
Clearing up the clutter of social media is a never ending process for some, and for others not so much. Social Media is important to me, to my business, to my blog. So I am going to take this challenge throughout 2019. And I hope you do too. Kristi
When visiting my brother I slept wrong and messed up my neck--every morning the pain has moved to a new location. I have never really been through anything like this and I have a new found sympathy for anyone that has chronic neck pain or headaches. I feel quite limited on a lot of things and am a tad cranky.
As I wasted the day in my comfortable new blanket--(a great gift from my brothers' family) I went back and forth between old episodes of Dr. Phil and the Cary Grant marathon on TCM. Oh Cary Grant was so handsome and such a great physical, expressive actor. We are now sitting in a blizzard warning for the rest of the week so my family is basically stuck home. Hopefully we stay warm, not have a power outage, and still love each other when the storm passes.
I am actually looking forward to 2019. And I hope you are too. I never really know where to start when it comes to New Years Resolutions. They are usually so outrageous like--I am going to look like I did in High School--I am going to lose 100 pounds. Or I am going to work out everyday--and pay a stupid amount of money to a gym that I will never go to. The fact is--we all set ourselves up for some sort of failure. So how about we start off our changes slowly? So instead of setting up New Years Resolutions I am going to commit to a 30 days of change challenge. Little things that will make a big difference in my life.
My first challenge is Cleaning UP my social media. I am a business owner, I am an exchange coordinator, a book keeper for my husbands trucking business and a blogger. I have used Facebook as a huge outlet for all of these things. Not only that but I have Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever else is needed to promote what needs to be promoted.
Have you ever looked at some of the Facebook Groups you are in? I checked out mine and I was floored to see how many groups I am in. Weight groups, money budgeting groups, recipe groups, political groups, rummage sale groups, direct sales groups, groups people added me to because they had a party, clothing groups, Pre-Code movies, Favorite Actor/Actress groups, Favorite TV show groups, Favorite movie groups, groups the motivate you, livestock for sale groups, I mean NEED I go on? I am in A LOT of groups. That is not including Facebook pages I have "Liked". Like 5000 pages.
Are you struggling seeing what your friends are writing on Facebook--it has a lot to do with the pages you like. Facebook gets paid to promote pages--I have also paid to have Facebook to promote my businesses and the paid get priority. So you are flooded with those pages. Facebook also knows what you like or don't like so they use that to flood your feed. So how do you stop this? Well you can click "take a 30 day break" from a page or simply click "unfollow" --or just click the "unlike" button. I found I saw a lot more of what my friends were doing by taking the 30 day break from pages.
So let's talk about the friends list--I love Facebook when I first signed up for Facebook and connected with friends from High School, College, old co-workers and of course family. There was so much nostalgia and I really fell in love with the purpose of the app. Now that I have had Facebook for 9 years I have realized that we don't really need to hang onto that nostalgia. I have lifelong friends, new friends, friends from other countries and Facebook is still incredibly important to me. What I have realized is that it is OK to let people go, and let them let YOU go. We change. I am not who I was in 1992, or even 2002. Some don't want you to change, some love the change, and others HATE the change. NO ONE has the time for HATE
I truly feel that when it comes to your friend list and it doesn't matter if you have 100 friends or 1000 friends. 20% are there for you. 40% probably can't read your status, 20% have unfollowed you, and the final 20% just love to watch you crash and burn. So make it your goal in 2019 to see where everyone stands on your list and in your life. And if they have unfollowed you or enjoy watching you crash in burn get RID of them. Also Facebook gives you the option to make friend lists. Take advantage of that--I have a family list, and a business list. They work well. Helpful hint--want to know if you are on a friends' restrictive list? If you visit a friends' profile and all of the posts you see are public, or just "tagged" posts you are most likely on their restrictive list. Restrictive means only "public" or "tagged" posts can be seen by you while others can see everything. In all honesty--it makes you a little bitter--but it also puts them on the list to be deleted. Surround yourself with a friendship list that loves and supports you. Because THAT is what we need in 2019.
So sort through your friend list in 2019. Make a few friend lists, leave a few groups and unlike a few pages. See who is being true to you and be true to your friends. I tend to get a little political sometimes on Facebook so I am staying in a few political groups and unliking all the political pages. The less I deal with trolls, or people who just want to pick a fight or vice versa--me wanting to pick a fight with them the better off I will be.
Clearing up the clutter of social media is a never ending process for some, and for others not so much. Social Media is important to me, to my business, to my blog. So I am going to take this challenge throughout 2019. And I hope you do too. Kristi
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