Two for the price of one today. I wrote a post yesterday, but before I saved it, my computer crashed. Technology and I don’t always get along so well. You’ll just have to trust me that it was beautiful and funny 🙂 So today you get twice the amount of stuff floating around in my head.

Yesterday’s mission was to

   2. Tell someone something I did this past week that I’m proud of

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Surprisingly, it was this blog. I tried something new and I’m proud of it. Its exciting, scary, and pretty fun. 48 people viewed my 1st blog post. That felt HUGE to me. The response from my friends and family was so supportive and encouraging. I have no intention of walking around feeling like “I’m the shit”, but I do feel proud that I not only created and chose to start this journey for myself, but that I shared it with others.

I’m pretty great at celebrating others, but terrible at celebrating myself. I can’t count the number of times I’ve told others to recognize their strengths and take time to celebrate their accomplishments no matter how small. But I can’t remember the last time I did that for myself. For as long as I can remember I’ve downplayed any successes or accomplishments. “Oh it’s no big deal”, “That’s nothing special”, “Everybody can do that”. Sound familiar?

I know its important to know yourself. And there is nothing wrong with recognizing your strengths and being proud of what you do (or maybe its that we should do things we’re proud of).

Moving right along… (pushing save draft now)

Today’s mission was to

3. Choose a positive word that describes me and meditate on it.

My word – Opportunity

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I was slapped in the face with opportunity today. I can’t share much about it yet, but change is on the horizon for me that could bring great opportunities. Thinking about this word for minute, really, there is opportunity every day. Lots of things get in my way of seeing it. Fear. Negative thoughts. My busy life. Feeling tired. I think sometimes I only see the big opportunities. But, each day brings small opportunities to take advantage of.  Its fun to think of what a day might look like if I choose to the the opportunities it brings with a different attitude.

Whenever I run a meeting, I try to have an agenda to keep us focused, take notes to help us remember what we decided, and a list of action steps so we all walk out knowing what we are supposed to do to accomplish what is needed. Today, my agenda item was to meditate on a word. This blog is serving as my meeting minutes (which is really good for me, if I don’t write it down, I don’t remember). And my action step is to try to see opportunities large and small and take advantage of them in the best way I can.

Bonus Material: Something else interesting has surfaced as a result of this project. It has a secondary benefit of giving me something to focus on when things start to feel negative or overwhelming. I can pop over to my daily mission and take a moment to think about what I said I was going to do today. It pulls me out of whatever funk or negative thinking I’m experiencing and reminds me focus. Kind of like pinching yourself to remember to be in the present. So yay! Double win!

Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend!

~Teresa