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Page 8A THE BEACON January 2020 By Linda Hutchinson Fresh Starts A while back, we were on a long road trip with our three youngest kids. We threw out some fun open-ended questions knowing that they had LOTS of time in the car to think about their responses. We asked questions like, “What do you want your life to look like in five years?” “What do you want to be doing in 10 years?” “What kind of things are you doing NOW to get you where you say you want to go?” Hearing them verbalize their dreams and goals out loud was fun. I think they even surprised themselves with some of their answers. The questions made them think. These kinds of questions are not just classic discussionstarters with kids but with adults as well. I remember my husband asking me these same kinds of questions early in our marriage. He still does. It used to drive me crazy. I didn’t know what I wanted to do next week, let alone next year. But as I reflect on those early years, I am now so thankful that my husband is a dreamer. He is always looking ahead and pushing me to set new goals. I didn’t like it at first, but I now see that he is helping me step out of my comfort zone. I wish I had written down some of those early goals we dreamed about together and could compare them with our reality today. Thanks to my husband’s constant encouragement and nudging over the past thirty-five years, I can honestly say that I am living my best life ever with no regrets. That’s not to say I haven’t made my share of stupid mistakes; I’ve made plenty of those. What I think my husband gave me, though, was the courage to try new things in spite of my fears. He encouraged me to step out of my comfort zone and set big goals, even if it meant I made a mistake or didn’t succeed. What about you? Is what you’re doing NOW going to get you where you want to be LATER? If you’re on track to accomplish your dreams and reach your goals, awesome! If you’ve already achieved them, congratulations! You’re part of the 2% club. Yep, that’s right. Research shows that ninety-eight percent of people die without fulfilling their dreams. Okay, so maybe you haven’t seen your wildest dreams come true. What about some short term goals? How do people fair with those? The results are not much better. Research shows that, on average, only eight percent of folks follow through with their New Year’s resolutions. My goal in writing this is not to depress you but to Fresh Starts help refocus your energy and priorities on where you want to be. Are you ready for a fresh start? Are you prepared to put some verbs in your sentences and get to work on a real plan for your future? Do you have goals or dreams you have not been able to reach? At Rock Solid Families, we work all the time with individuals and couples who are struggling or feel stuck. Sometimes, they come in knowing what their problem is, but they often have no idea where to start. They feel like they are floundering in a world of indecision. One way we help our clients is to ask them to rate the satisfaction level of different areas of their lives. We have them focus on eight different areas: financial, relational, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual, intellectual, and recreational. After they score the different areas of their lives, they focus on one or two areas with the lowest satisfaction scores. Together, we work on setting some SMART goals. One of the dangers of setting personal goals is making them too difficult or unattainable. Here are some ideas on how to set some SMART goals and see your dreams come true. S- Be SPECIFIC. Don’t just say, “I’m going to lose weight next year.” Write down a specific goal like “I’m going to lose five pounds in the next Peace On Earth. Goodwill To All! four weeks, and then go back and assess after a month.” M- Make it MEASURABLE You want to set a goal that can be measured at some point. If one of your financial goals is to put more money into your savings, put a dollar figure to that goal. For instance, I want to save an extra $100 each week and put it in my savings. That’s an easy goal to measure. A- ACHIEVABLE Dreaming big is great, but if you give up in a month, what good was the goal? Make your goals achievable. Making New Year resolutions year after year and never make it past February is depressing. Don’t try to do everything at once. When we “bite off more than we can chew,” we get frustrated and give up before we have a chance to see the fruits of our efforts. Be realistic in what you can accomplish. If you want to save $100 more a week, but after you pay your car payment and gas, you only have $20 left at the end of the week, then your goal is unrealistic and unachievable. R- RELEVANT Put the big rocks in first. Set goals that will have an immediate and positive impact on your life. Focus on your lowest satisfaction scores and set goals that are relevant to those areas of your life. I recently had a client who was struggling relationally and professionally. She had lost many of her closest relationships after leaving her longtime career. Focusing on those two areas first was important. Losing weight or building up her savings account should not be her top priority. A relevant goal for her was to find a job that would stimulate her both professionally and relationally. T- TIME-BASED Putting a deadline on yourself is crucial. Setting goals for 2020 is too broad. Be more specific with your deadlines. I recommend no longer than six to eight weeks at a time, and I highly recommend sharing your timeline with a friend or family member. If you want to reconnect with your faith, set a goal to attend church five out of the next six weeks and ask your spouse to go along with you. Remember that these are your goals, not theirs. Even if they decline, you should still go. Instead of saying that you’re going to start praying “more,” set a time-based goal that you can measure. Your goal may be to set aside fifteen minutes every day for prayer. If you’re reading this and already having doubts that you can hit the reset button and make a fresh start, solicit the help of a friend, coach, or counselor. Don’t try to go it alone. We all need the support and encouragement of others. As I mentioned earlier, my husband has always been a HUGE encouragement to me to get out of my comfort zone and dream big. Rock Solid Families, was one of those big dreams that we began envisioning over eight years ago. We both felt that God was preparing us for something new by working with couples and families full time but didn’t quite know the “how” or the “when” or even the “where.” I am so thankful that Merrill kept nudging me to dream big. What about you? What’s your passion? As the new year approaches, now is a great time to pause and reflect on a few questions. Be honest and transparent with yourself. Where am I now? Where do I want to be next year? In five years? Is what I’m doing right now going to get me there? If it’s not, maybe the time has come to push the reset button. Make some changes. Solicit help. Don’t settle for anything less. Linda Hutchinson is the Executive Director of Rock Solid Families, a faith-based life coaching organization in St. Leon, IN. Wagon Shed Candle Company Specializing in all natural soy candles and gift baskets made to order for all occasions DOTTIE SCHIPPER, Owner 4717 Tall Oak Drive Aurora, Indiana 47001-7735 812-926-1466 Home • 859-512-9792 Cell Merry Christmas & Happy New Year From Roger Ford & Conservative Financial Solutions Conservative Financial Solutions | Roger L. Ford 10403 Harrison Avenue | Harrison, OH 45030 | 513.367.1113 ConservativeFinancialSolutions.com Roger Ford offers securities through Madison Avenue Securities, LLC (MAS), member FINRA/SIPC. 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January 2020 THE BEACON Page 9A Less Waste, More Cheer By Stefanie Hoffmeier According to the National Retail Federation, consumers say they will spend an average of $1,047.83 this holiday season, up 4% from 2018. Spending more means more packaging, mailing boxes, wrapping paper, and food containers. Household waste increases by 25% from Thanksgiving to New Years. It’s time to reduce, reuse, and “recycle all the way”! Here are a few tips to make your holidays have less waste and more cheer. • Give an experience instead of stuff. Tickets to a show or an event require no packaging and only leave behind memories instead of trash. • If you are baking holiday treats as a gift, package them in reusable containers. • Send your holiday greetings and party invites via email or social media to reduce the amount of paper that will end up in the trash. • Keep reusable bags in your car for holiday shopping. If you forget your reusable bags, plastic bags can be recycled at big-box retailers like Kroger and Target. • Make sure you have a recycling container for guests to use. Wrapping paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and glass bottles are all recyclable. • Food packaging such as cartons for broth, eggnog, milk, and juice can all be recycled. Metal cans and flattened cardboard box packaging can also be placed in the recycling bin. • Cardboard shipping boxes can be recycled if they are flattened down. Styrofoam peanuts, bubble wrap, and plastic cushioning cannot be recycled. When shipping gifts, use shredded paper or newspaper as cushioning. • Holiday gift bags, tissue paper, and bows can be reused. Gift bags, tissue paper, and wrapping paper can also be recycled if they are flattened down and any ribbons or strings removed. Consider wrapping gifts using recyclable materials or reusable shopping bags. Fabric used for wrapping paper has a homemade look and can be reused the next year. • Use durable, washable dishes and serving ware during your party or family get-together. Paper plates and plastic silverware are not recyclable and contribute to a large portion of the holiday trash. The members of your household will probably receive at least a few electronic items as gifts for Christmas this year. Don’t just discard or shove the old electronics that are being replaced to the back of a closet or basement. Electronics contain toxins that can leak into the environment when dumped into a landfill. The Dearborn County Recycling Center (DCRC) accepts electronics for recycling free of charge year-round for Dearborn County residents. The DCRC accepts televisions (for a fee), computers, monitors, tablets, cell phones, game consoles, camcorders, cameras, printers, keyboards, and more. Electronics contain valuable, reusable materials like gold, steel, silver, copper, and glass that can be recycled. Not only are the electronics harmful to the environment, but rechargeable batteries that are in those electronics create a fire hazard in waste hauling trucks. You can bring non-alkaline batteries to the DCRC Drive-Thru to be recycled. Regular alkaline batteries are safe to place in your regular trash. As you put up or take down your holiday string lights, you may find that you have broken strands, or you may want to invest in newer, more energyefficient LED lights. Before throwing your old lights in the trash, consider recycling them at the DCRC. String lights contain common recyclable materials like metal, plastic, and sometimes glass. The DCRC Drive-Thru accepts string lights year-round. Never put them in curbside recycling bins, as they get tangled in recycling sorting machines. Real Christmas trees, wreaths, and garland can be chipped up for mulch or composted. Make sure that all decorations and wires are removed. For Lawrenceburg residents, you can take your tree FROM H ere By Ollie Roehm My old friend Bob Hyle, God rest his soul, was a huge fan of the movie “Hoosiers” and always maintained that it is the greatest movie ever made. Bob was a Bright resident, longtime columnist and sports reporter for The Harrison Press, and a fine man. He loved basketball more than anyone I’ve ever known. I used to tease Bob a lot about my Indiana basketball bona fides vs. his. Bob, a ’69 grad, went to LaSalle High School in Cincinnati, and I went to little Whitewater High School in Franklin County, Indiana. I played basketball all four years and got to experience something wonderful that Bob did not while growing up in Cheviot and going to LaSalle. Basketball was a sport where Bob lived. It was almost a religion in my part of the world. Practices began the first week of October, and games started in early November. Prior to the first regularseason game, we always had to the City Garage and place it in a special collection container for trees. Some neighborhoods like Hidden Valley Lake offer their residents a place to recycle trees. Greendale residents can put their tree out with the regular yard waste collection. Always check with your waste hauler to see if they pick up trees in the weeks following Christmas. If the thought of hauling your tree to another location is too daunting, then you can chop up the branches and needles and use them under trees and shrubs as winter mulch. It’s easy to reduce your waste during the holidays when you plan ahead. If you are not sure if an item is recyclable, visit DearbornCounty- Recycles.com. a “soap game” scrimmage to which the community was invited. The admission fee was a bar of soap, and when the game was over, we always had enough soap for showers for the rest of the season. Friday nights during basketball season in Indiana attracted just about everyone. Tiny gyms in tiny high schools filled up with farmers, factory workers, mechanics, housewives, and folks from all walks of life. Depending on where you were sitting, you could smell cow dung, pig poop, perfume, chewing tobacco, popcorn, Old Spice, sweat, fuel oil, and other wonderful aromas. It was cramped, loud, smelly, and it was great. We played schools, now long gone, like Alquina, Kitchel, Laurel, Liberty, Fountain City, Sunman, North Dearborn, Waldron, New Point, Milroy, College Corner, and many others. With just a couple of exceptions, the gyms were cracker boxes. The College Corner gym was truly special. The centerline also served as the state line, dividing Indiana and Ohio. Every time you crossed it, you changed states. If you straddled it, you were in both states. When Indiana was on Central Time, a player could shoot from the Indiana side and make a basket an hour We Need Listings! 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Or something like that… Many of the gyms, including College Corner, were so small that fast breaks were downright dangerous. The wall was located about a foot from the basket, and guys often slammed into it while running full blast. Even though there was usually a pad to help absorb the blow, injuries were common. Analgesic balm was the primary go-to when treating injuries of most sorts. It was an orange goo that came out of a five-gallon bucket, and you could smell the stuff a continent away. Think Ben Gay, but much, much stronger. Since the best basketball shoe back then was the Converse All-Star, there were plenty of sprains, shin splints, and the like. Enter the orange goo. But during the early ‘70s, everything changed. Schools consolidated, gyms got bigger, and other sports and activities became popular. As a result, Indiana high school basketball became less important. I was fortunate to experience the true essence of Indiana basketball, orange goo, and all. There will never be anything like it again. And I was even more fortunate to know a man like Bob Hyle. There will never be anyone like him again. Versailles • Dillsboro • Batesville • Friendship • Madison • Lawrenceburg • Rising Sun • Vevay friendshipstatebank.com 812.667.5101 Your Neighbors. Your Friends. Your Community Bank You Can Rely On. NMLS #454283 Equal Opportunity Lender SHOP LOCAL and tell our advertisers you saw them in The BEACON!
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