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Optimistic October Calendar

This month's theme: Optimistic October

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Especially when things are feeling a bit tough, it can help to set some goals.  Making goals achievable and ensuring that you have a few short term as well as longer term, more ambitious goals helps us feel we're making progress. It doesn't matter if your goal for the day is something really small, the important thing is to give yourself the opportunity to feel like you've achieved something and to celebrate that! This month's calendar is full of ideas to help you think about how you can put this into practice.

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Here's how you can get involved and make a difference:

This month's theme is based on Direction: Have goals to look forward to from the Ten Keys to Happier Living >> Find out more about the Ten Keys.

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Thanks

This calendar is a new addition to our series of monthly action calendars which have been used by millions of people and translated into 30+ languages.

Thanks to Peter Harper for coming up with the original calendar idea and also to the many other kind and talented people who have helped contribute the ideas and inspiration, including Patrick Higgins who first suggested the idea of a new calendar in response to this global crisis.

Many thanks also to the generous volunteers who have translated the calendars into other languages, including Hala Disi, Carine Bouery, Aida Laubach and Jaber & Nailah Aljasmi (Arabic), Faria Mahbub (Bengali), Sevdzhi Eubova (Bulgarian), Victòria Picó (Catalan), Janice Torkildsen (Chinese & Nepalese), Natalie Lui, Yun You & Chun Fat Huang (Chinese), Jasminka Begic (Croatian), Gabriela Macova (Czech), Merete Klitgård (Danish), Martine De Ruiter (Dutch), Anna Langley (Esperanto), Arezou Sabet (Farsi), Kirsi Paldanius (Finnish), Elisha Gay Hidalgo & Kristo Mari Demegillo (Filipino), Laurence De Olivera & Windy Diakité (French), Rika Tjakea Schütte, Tobias Polzin, Ingrid Schäberle, Yvonne Macasieb, Gunnar Kolley & Rika Tjakea Schütte (German), Areti Efthymiou & Marina Derlere (Greek), Ella Movshovitz (Hebrew), GopiKrishan Bali & Arti Kanwar (Hindi), Eva Fekete (Hungarian), María Ammendrup (Icelandic), Lisa Samadikun (Indonesian), Andrea Magnabosco (Italian), Narumi Isoda (Japanese), Rasa Kokoreviča (Latvian), Joana Butenaite & Janina Sabaite (Lithuanian), Davaa Amgalanbaatar (Mongolian), Marek Zywert & Lidia Golba (Polish), Ana Rute Costa & Heide Castro (Portuguese), Rajat Khatri (Punjabi), Laura Larion & Iris Mihaila (Romanian), Claire Guzanova & Natalya Kuznetsova (Russian), Tara Jevrosimovic (Serbian), Mária Boťanská (Slovak), Vicenç Rul.lan (Spanish), Naima Skillingshage (Swedish), Ali Gülüm, Ceylan Özpınarand Ilgın Bayraktar (Turkish), Kate Rudenko & Olga V. Seredyuk (Ukranian), and Lubna Zaidi (Urdu).

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OCTOBER CALENDAR

Optimistic October: daily actions to help youfocus on what really matters.

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> Arabic: PDF & JPG
> Catalan: PDF & JPG
> Chinese (simplified): PDF & JPG
> Chinese (traditional): PDF & JPG
> Czech: PDF & JPG
> Dutch: PDF & JPG
> French: PDF & JPG
> German: PDF & JPG
> Hungarian: PDF & JPG
> Icelandic: PDF & JPG
> Italian: PDF & JPG
> Japanese: PDF & JPG
> Kyrgyz: PDF & JPG
> Lithuanian: PDF & JPG
> Nepali: PDF & JPG
> Polish: PDF & JPG
> Portuguese: PDF & JPG
> Portuguese (Brazil): PDF & JPG
> Russian: PDF & JPG
> Serbian: PDF & JPG
> Slovenian: PDF & JPG 
> Spanish: PDF & JPG
> Swedish: PDF & JPG
> Turkish: PDF & JPG
> Ukrainian: PDF & JPG