This post was going to be about my struggles this week, but I'm not letting that sh*t rule my life. Instead, I'm putting aside the negative and embracing the positive, acknowledging the hurt, and moving towards the healing.
I bought myself a gratitude journal for the New Year. I figured I was starting my new, married life, and I was starting fresh. This journal is one of the ONLY habits I've kept well for the entire first 4 months of the year. I've written in it diligently every night before bed. Maybe not every night, but I've definitely caught up on the days that I missed and am completely up to date with thanking whoever it may be for the good things in life.
My journal requires me to find 3 things every day, and some days, it's difficult. Many a day I've written only about the weather, or food, or just the fact that I woke up and made it through the day. Other days I want to write more, I find 10 things to be grateful for. I have an amazing day, I see amazing things, I catch up with amazing people, I eat amazing food.
Looking back, it's the difficult days that I appreciate the most. Sitting in bed, at the end of a day where everything seemed to go everyone else's way, where I felt sh*tty, where things didn't happen the way I wanted them to, I HAVE to find something good about the day. There's no excuses, I have to write something down. I look back through my day with different eyes, try to find the glimmer of sunshine, the compliment paid, the warm fuzzy feeling.
It's always there.
Powerful.
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