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This month’s theme is Blessed, and we are considering how to receive the blessings that are out there in abundance for us already. It’s harvest season, and one must go pick the garden produce in order to receive it. What are your blocks and/or tools for receiving all the good that’s out there in the world just for you?
Your being is whole whether you solve your problems or not. They’re just problems, not you. (Mark Nepo) Let’s talk about focusing on you instead of your problems today.
- How do you feel in the fall as you anticipate and celebrate harvest and all the good holidays to come?
- healing, deliverance, favor, provision, protection, guidance, peace, joy, family, spiritual gifts, talents
Joy opens the door to receiving:
- Joy-ercises (like jazzercise in the 90’s)
- Joy Journals & gratitude glasses
- The Ta-Da list- Happier episode134 A Way to See Real Accomplishment
- If you are not working in a high-paced, publicly lauded job without pressure for immediate results, it can be hard to motivate yourself. You may feel like you’re not accomplishing anything.
- Consider this: Every Friday, write down everything you have done that week and look back at your substantial progress, as in “Ta-da! Look what I’ve done!”
- This has the added benefit of being a chronicle of things you’ve done. At the time of a life or business performance review, this list would show your value, progress and accomplishments.
- It also works well at home- list the things you have done just as a part of daily life at the end of the week, Mom’s: how many diapers did you change, faces did you wipe, meals did you cook, laundry, kisses, books read etc.?
- You can look at it and say, I’ve obviously been very busy- life is filled with good things that I’ve accomplished.
- Another take on this is the What went well? List or, as Jaycine calls this, what are you most proud of that you’ve done this week?
The Ta-Da List flips the to-do list on its head. It’s not a list of things you need to do. It's a list of things you have done. It can be energizing and powerful for us.
When you’re doing many different things and feel like you’re never getting anywhere on one thing (being pulled in many directions), this can show you that you really are accomplishing a lot. You can see what you did on every project and have the feeling of accomplishment you crave. It can also prevent burn out by showing you your progress and that you’re not just spinning your wheels- you really are getting things done.
- Another way Ta-da’s help is the Monitoring Principle: What gets measured, gets improved.
- When you know how much you’re doing something, you automatically start to do better. If you monitor how much sleep you get every night, how much walking you do, or how often you are grateful, it’s natural, by observation, to be more aware and do better, nearly effortlessly.
- You also may not realize just how you really are doing until you start monitoring. If you put that on your ta-da list, it will help you see that.
- Reframing technique- instead of stuff you have to do, it’s yay, look at all the stuff I’ve done.
- Great for rebels- who resist what they are told to do. Reminds of what you’ve done is look at what you can accomplish when you put your mind to it- it’s a celebration of all you have done. (Rebels, Questioners, Obligers & upholders)
- Experts will tell you what you should do, but choose what works for you. If a to-do list is not working for you, go to the ta-da list and try that.
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