{"id":15451,"date":"2018-12-31T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:07","slug":"last-day-near-a-river-eagle-encouragement-bj-rae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/last-day-near-a-river-eagle-encouragement-bj-rae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Today is the last day of the year.\u00a0 What will you do today?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What do you do on the last day of the year or month?\u00a0 My husband usually plans to spend his day with me\u2014tickling and teasing me, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Have you thought about how will you spend this day?<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t decided yet what you will do today, consider asking yourself a few questions about how you have spent the rest of your days.\u00a0 Have you\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Improved yourself in any way?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you learned anything new? Overcome any challenges in your life?\u00a0 Let go of the things you cannot control?\u00a0 Rekindled old relationships or started any new ones?<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, have you eliminated the negatives in your life? Have you done your best to improve your own health? Have you amended any broken relationships, especially relationships with your family?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Improved anyone else\u2019s life in any way?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you helped anyone else overcome a challenge?\u00a0 Contributed your gifts and talents to the world?<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, have you done your best to help others every day this year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Made anything wonderful happen?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where have you gone and what have you accomplished?\u00a0 Seen any interesting places? Have you set any personal goals and tried to meet them?\u00a0 Have you learned what you need to learn so you can make your dreams come true?<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, have you done your best to make your dreams come true?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you answered no to any of these questions, today is the day to start\u2014not tomorrow.\u00a0 Today, you can think, plan, and decide how you will do these things in the upcoming days.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, what is your next resolution?\u00a0 Mine is to try each day to accept myself unconditionally.\u00a0 This may sound like a selfish resolution, but it is not.\u00a0 When a person accepts himself or herself unconditionally, (s)he is starting on the road to a successful life, health-wise and otherwise.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Get ahead in life by achieving your resolutions<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">every month instead of every year!<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Let the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/encouraging\" slimstat=\"5\">encouraging words<\/a>\u00a0in these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/river\" slimstat=\"5\">near\u00a0a\u00a0river<\/a>\u00a0posts then help you<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">soar like an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/eagle\" slimstat=\"5\">eagle<\/a>\u00a0above life\u2019s storms.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you have room for peace in your life?<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/hat-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle\/\">Haven&#8217;t you ever found any magic in this world?<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/reading-with-child-eagle-near-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words\/\">Please make this one of your goals for the rest of the year.<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Perhaps we shouldn&#8217;t vote for politicians who use this option!<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Enjoy BJ\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/encouraging\" slimstat=\"5\">encouraging words<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/river\" slimstat=\"5\">near a river<\/a>!<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of the year.\u00a0 What will you do today? What do you do on the last day of the year or month?\u00a0 My husband usually plans to spend his day with me\u2014tickling and teasing me, of <a href=\"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/last-day-near-a-river-eagle-encouragement-bj-rae\/\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1089,133],"tags":[1588,2612,77,1271,1269,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,9754,1331,9755,9753,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,9410,9552,8784,1327,1336,1335,1268,8888,1265,1333,1276,297,1299],"class_list":["post-15451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-happy-holidays-near-river-bj-rae","category-successful-bj-rae","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bald-eagle","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-book-for-children","tag-eagle-book-for-kids","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-for-children","tag-for-kids","tag-happy-new-year","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-new-year","tag-new-years-resolutions","tag-reading-book","tag-resolutions","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21256,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions\/21256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}