Hello hello!
Look at us at Day 27! Go Team!
I think today is a great time to take a minute to notice how much stuff you DID get gone this month.
Yes, I imagine most of us started the month with huge plans that we had to scale back quite a bit as we went along. And while it would be easy to get all caught up in our regrets and frustrations about the things we put aside, I think it would be waaaaaay more helpful to spend a little time congratulating ourselves on what we did instead of being annoyed about what we didn’t do. *
While we’re at it, let’s also celebrate doing all the tasks that we usually do without thinking about – work tasks, home tasks, family commitments – because this month we were doing them with extra pressure and less time.
(Truth be told, I think we could be celebrating that kind of work on the regular but since most of us don’t usually do that, let’s make a point of celebrating them now.)
All of that work, the regular stuff, and the extra December stuff, matters and it is really important that we notice our own efforts and congratulate ourselves for them.
Obviously, you can notice all of those things just by thinking about them but I can’t help but wonder if it might be useful to actually write down as many things as we can think of just so we can see the length and breadth of that list.
And, seriously, include everything you can think of, including things like washing your hair, getting snow tires on the car, and answering that phone call.
If you did it, it goes on the list!
I, of course, am celebrating you and cheering you on from over here.
And I am offering you this gold star for your efforts:
Amidst the list-making and the celebrating, you may still need to make a little space for yourself so here are my suggestions for today:
Here is our movement practice for today:
Here is our meditation practice for today:
*There will be lots of time to use our regrets to help inform our future selves, we’ll get to that in a day or two. Today is about celebrating our victories!
