A Gratitude Practice. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Gratitude works, and it takes less than 10 minutes a day. Starting your day in a positive mindset, thinking of small moments to be grateful for. My question for you, is why aren’t you practicing gratitude? “If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” Roy T. Bennett How I Started With Gratitude Rachel Hollis. She is the reason and the teacher I had for gratitude. I did not learn this practice until I was 35 years old. I didn’t grow …
I love organizing spaces in my home, Spring cleaning, and checking off home projects off my list. I basically enjoy getting rid of clutter, and refreshing a space in my home. My most recent example of this is organizing my home office. We moved a little over a year ago, and we are now chipping away at projects to make our house feel like home. “A good system shortens the road to the goal.” Orison Swett Marden My home office was a “throw things in the room and shut the door” space. I really wanted to utilize my office but …
Good self care is all about building habits and systems that work for you. For me, self care isn’t spa days and face masks at home. What works for me, is creating time for myself to work on goals that I care about, and setting myself up to succeed in my day-to-day routines. Here’s a list of what I think are important factors to take care of yourself and also make headway on some goals. Scroll to the bottom to see what this looks like in my daily life. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. …
My Long Term Goal- Running A Marathon Running a marathon has been a goal that I have been writing down since February 25, 2020. I didn’t write about what led up to me making such an audacious goal, but I did write down affirmations that day. I wrote, “I believe in myself, I chose to be happy. I am strong, I love my body for everything it has done for me. I love who I am becoming. I love myself.” Before deciding to run a full marathon, I had run 2 half marathons and a handful of 5K’s. I had …
