It’s hard to believe i’ve been home for almost 5 months! Life back in the real world was a lot easier to adjust to than I had expected. I owe a lot of that too the awesome community that I came home to! I definitely miss the race on occasion. I miss traveling and I miss my team terribly. Which if you’ve followed my blog during my trip you wouldn’t have expected those words to come out of my mouth.
I’m currently sitting in Ohio. Visiting some of my squad mates. I wanted to send a quick update letting you know that things are going well for me, and to let you know that I’m going to be starting a new blog.
I was given a challenge almost a month ago, that originally I was going to start at the beginning of the new year. But today on my drive up to Ohio I decided I was going to start today. Here is the challenge:
Life doesn’t always give us a convenient “like” button to click every time we come across something that we find delight in. But that does not mean that we should feel an less inclined to allow ourselves to appreciate those pieces of daily life that bring with them smiles, laughter, joy, happiness; maybe it was a kind stranger who held a door open for you, maybe you heard a song that you absolutely love but haven’t heard in years, maybe you realized you actually did have one more clean pair of socks as you were getting dressed for class and running late thanks to the snooze button. Whether we’re having the best day of our lives or one that couldn’t possibly contain one more unfortunate event (but, or course, always seems to have just one more around the corner), there is something to rejoice in. And no matter how big or small that something seems, it all carries equal importance because in whatever situation you find yourself in, it’s exactly what you needed to get a smile on that beautiful face of yours! (or at least in your heart if your lips just couldn’t find the energy to show it!) So here’s the challenge, “Operation: ‘Like’ list”. What does this entail? It’s quite simple…365 positive thoughts. Once a day for a year! That’s it! Each day, allow yourself to document (at least) one thing that brought you happiness. At the end of this year, you’ll have composed a wonderful log of positive reminders about the beauties that you’ve experience as each day has passed! Some may be subtle, unexplainable feelings, others may be loud victories. At the end of the challenge, you’ll walk away with quite a helpful archive of “souvenirs” from your year. Thoughts to remember, memories to carry, and a positive mentality that will continue on longer than you may think at this point in time.
So that is the challenge. So every day I will post something positive from the day for the next 365 days. It is possible that I will blog about other things as well but this will for sure happen daily! So to find out what Day one is make your way to my new blog!
AND…I want to challenge you to do the same. You don’t have to blog about it, but buy a journal or a notebook and write it down daily! I think so many times we focus on the things that didn’t go the way we wanted them to go, but this will make us focus on the blessing and things that we are thankful…every day for a year!
Good Luck!! 🙂
