The place you in the end find yourself significantly relies on your each day perspective and response.
This morning one among our purchasers, Monica — a sufferer of a reasonably latest and debilitating automobile accident — was smiling from ear to ear the minute our FaceTime teaching session started. “What has you in such good spirits at present?” I requested her. “I’m considering higher about issues at present — about how fortunate I’m to be alive,” she replied. “I believed the accidents I sustained in that accident final 12 months signified the tip of life as I do know it, however now I understand they signify the start.”
All particulars apart, Monica determined to start once more, in her thoughts first after which in her life. It’s taken her a number of months of therapeutic and observe, however she has progressively let go of the “shoulda, woulda, coulda” attachments in her head about her circumstances. And she or he has stepped ahead with grace, willpower, and a optimistic mindset.
Let’s observe Monica’s lead and observe considering higher as we journey via the primary quarter of the 12 months, so we will start to construct momentum, collectively, as we transfer ahead…
Morning Reminders & Quotes on Sticky Notes
It’s all about conserving the precise ideas prime of thoughts from the get-go day-after-day in order that they’re available within the moments once we want them most. For Monica, that has meant intentionally reflecting on what she wants to recollect. To make this observe seamless she writes necessary reminders on sticky notes after which places them up the place she will see them very first thing within the morning (just a few of her sticky notes are up on the wall in her bed room, and she or he has just a few extra on her toilet mirror and fridge).
Monica’s sticky notes hold her on observe by conserving her thoughts impressed with optimistic, proactive reminders, even when she’s struggling. By way of this each day observe she she has in the end discovered that interior peace doesn’t imply to be in a spot the place there is no such thing as a noise, chaos, or challenges to take care of; it means being within the midst of all these issues and nonetheless being able to sustaining a wholesome mindset. And I’m certain you’ve discovered one thing related through the years from your individual life experiences. I do know Marc and I absolutely have. However identical to Monica, and also you, we regularly neglect…
Which is exactly why Marc and I’ve sticky notes up in our home too. So my problem to YOU is to begin working towards alongside us for the subsequent month or so. To get began, steal our notes and quotes beneath — maybe simply those that resonate most — and rewrite them on bodily sticky notes, so you’ll be able to then stick them up the place you’ll be able to see them. Then pause for just a few moments each morning and quietly learn them to your self. See how doing so progressively modifications the best way you assume from everyday…
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(Word: A lot of the sticky notes and quotes above are included in “The Good Morning Journal: Highly effective Prompts & Reflections to Begin Each Day”.)
Let’s make the perfect of what’s in entrance of us.
We regularly yearn for a really small and selective vary of life experiences — the enjoyable occasions, the pleased days, the issues that make us really feel calm and comfy. And but the complete vary of our each day actuality is usually fairly totally different. Life provides us an in depth array of experiences that evoke emotions starting from disappointment to uncertainty to frustration to curiosity to nervousness… to happiness to pleasure and extra. These emotions are all a part of being alive.
So we will revolt in opposition to the wide-ranging experiences life naturally gives, or we will make the easiest of them. Beginning at present, let’s do the latter…
This implies embracing each second with our full presence, being open and susceptible to actuality, being mild with ourselves when occasions are robust, and working towards honest gratitude at any time when attainable.
It means accepting life as it’s, and accepting ourselves as we’re.
It means not anticipating the perfect to occur each time, however as a substitute accepting no matter occurs, and making the easiest of it one step at a time.
And it received’t at all times be simple after all, however it’s price engaged on.
YOU are price engaged on, beginning very first thing each morning for the subsequent month, and past.
Now it’s your flip…
Sure, it’s your flip to get some inspiring sticky notes up in your partitions at present. However earlier than you go, please depart Marc and me a remark beneath and tell us what you consider this publish. Your suggestions is necessary to us. 🙂
Which sticky observe or concept above resonates with you essentially the most?
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