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2022 is the Year of Weird Christmas Socks
2022: Year of the Weird Christmas Socks
I start this year in conscious reflection that I really like who and what I am right now. I’ve been living intentionally, succeeding at being who I want to be. I’m a place where I want to enjoy this peace for awhile instead of knocking myself out over incremental improvements; the relative modesty of my year’ ( Read more... ) -
2019 is the Year of the Single Step
- Make things easier on other people.
- Seek examples from role models who inspire me.
- Live as a good example of what I believe in.
Give Back, Give Forward- Be the tortilla chip person to someone else’s chicken enchilada dip.
- Say yes to others whenever I can.
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21 Days of Positivity: Lessons Learned
- Doing specific things every single day is challenging! And sometimes not fun.
- Practicing random acts of kindness, even just verbalizing the compliments that pop into my head, is easy - and necessary.
- It's easy to practice gratitude, but it's surprisingly challenging not to pick the same old things all the time, and focus on the new things of which I' ( Read more... )
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Day 18 - 21 Days of Positivity
Something positive that happened in the past day:I'm asking for a raise at work, and the meeting for me to make my sales pitch has been on, it's off, it's back, it's back off. Turns out that the meeting is just a social courtesy, a formality. My direct supervisor told me today that my grandboss, the head of our department, with whom I'd have that ( Read more... ) -
Day 17 - 21 Days of Positivity
The days which are the easy days, the bright days are the ones when it's joyous to celebrate positivity in a mindful way. It's the days and the moments of some disappointment or gathered rainclouds when having the tool of such an exercise is honestly a relief. This is one of those hours ( Read more... ) -
Day ??? - 21 Days of Positivity
I'm working on it. :)
Something positive that happened to me in the past day:
I'm asking my grandboss for a raise. Today I sent the meeting invitation for that discussion next week. Got some helpful advice and encouragement from my direct supervisor on this.
3 new things for which I'm grateful:- Forward notice of upcoming projects from another ( Read more... )
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Day 11 - 21 Days of Positivity
I'm livin' the lifestyle, even if falling behind on the journaling every day piece ( Read more... ) -
Day 8 - 21 Days of Positivity
This whole conscious effort is definitely having a good effect of making me more mindful of what I put my energy, and my words into. I've enjoyed this week!
Something positive from the past 24 hours: I'm a Words of Affirmation person as "love languages" go. My good friend Amy recognized that, and over time has been putting effort into composing an ( Read more... ) -
Days 6 & 7 - 21 Days of Positivity (weekend edition)
Positive expericnes in the past 48 hours:Friday evening was my company holiday party at the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Denver -- fancy! I decided to take public transportation into the city to get there, which turned out to be easy and convenient. I dressed up fancy for the party and had these big fake red flowers in my hair -- and of course a ( Read more... ) -
Day 5 - 21 Days of Positivity
I like the feeling that there's something active I can do to combat being overly negative. These 5 days of efforts so far have definitely made me more conscious of my language of criticism or lacking support, and offered me the chance to decide to change or temper that.
3 new things I'm grateful for:- My housemate's broken leg is healing exceedingly ( Read more... )