Hi friends, Feeling uneasy, I journaled about last week: - I did not wake up early every day.
- I skipped writing my affirmations and visualization practice.
- I forgot my morning exercises and hardly walked.
- I had coffee at night.
- I got stuck in morning traffic, resulting in being late to work.
That was what came first to mind. But it is only half of the story. I then asked myself what good things happened in that same week, and the answers poured out of my pen: - I launched my second journaling workshop with delightful attendees. Afterward, I enjoyed staying up late with a snack and an episode of Seinfeld.
- I had that late coffee when I met my brilliant mastermind group for the first time this year; the meeting was too good for tea. I learned that starting work at 10 AM as per the governmentās advice was a bad idea that I needed to ignore, which I did the day after and was the first to arrive at work, instead.
- I did not skip a day of meditation or reading my spiritual book.
- I walked in the cold weather two times to make up for my lack of movement at the beginning of the week.
- I wrote four new blog posts and daily on Twitter.
Once again, I was feeling uneasy because of that perfectionism rearing its ugly head, demanding to do it all at the same time, or it would not count as success, but I chose to dig deeper and not stop at the first answers I got. Looking for the good helped me overcome it. Bad day? Try it. Ask yourself: what good did you still manage to do? Eating a healthy breakfast counts; calling your friend counts; smiling at a stranger surely counts. Youāll be surprised to find out how much good you still made happen. Then at night, as you climb into bed, say to yourself what the author Brene Brown taught us: āNo matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.ā |
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Although the weather still does not agree, happy first day of Spring š· to you all. I love this particular seasonal transition so much, and of course, happy Mother's Day to you and your mothers, aunts and grandmothers. May you celebrate it beautifully š. |
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"Stress is caused by being āhereā but wanting to be āthere,ā or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. Itās a split that tears you apart inside." ā Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now |
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