{"id":7985,"date":"2022-01-03T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2022-04-25T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:00:33","slug":"begin-begin-again-begin-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/cravings-tribe\/begin-begin-again-begin-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin. Begin again. Begin every day."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, my lovelies! Were you wondering if I had forgotten about you and our plan to start a reVolution not a resolution? There is a method to my madness. As I said from the get-go, this is not a resolution that you make and, once you break, you give up until the next year. No, no. This is a daily decision. And I wanted to wait until we were a few days into this new year \u2014 past all the potential, \u201cThis feels like a resolution,\u201d questions. Plus, I like the idea of a Monday post to jumpstart our week as we go. So expect Mondays to be the day you\u2019ll see some new Tribe-ReVolution posts going up.<\/p>\n

So here we are in Week 1 of our daily efforts to journey inward and discover our true selves and create transformation along the way. If you missed the first post on this, you can find it\u00a0HERE<\/a>. It will tell you what to pack for this journey (hint: If you have a spiral notebook, you\u2019re pretty much good to go. The rest can be collected along the way.) The one \u201crequirement,\u201d and I use that term loosely, is a gratitude journal, because, trust me, it is such an easy way to begin to shift our attitude, and it\u2019s really nice to be able to go back and look at all the blessings in our lives rather than journals filled with angst and woe. So today I thought I would start with that basic daily activity: gratitude journaling.<\/p>\n

What does it look like? Whatever you want it to look like. Seriously. You can buy yourself the most beautiful leather journal with homemade paper; you can use a 10-cent spiral notebook picked up at last year\u2019s back-to-school sale; you can even use a great big mason jar or some other container and squares of brightly colored paper. So many options!<\/p>\n

Okay, now that we\u2019ve got the actual journal, what do we do? Well, there are lots of ways you can choose to do this, but I\u2019ll tell you my way, which is quick and so easy I (almost) never say, \u201cNah, I don\u2019t have time.\u201d Every night before I climb into bed, I take the spiral journal from my nightstand and date the entry. Then I write down three things from that day that I count among my blessings. (I number them consecutively so I can see them adding up over the months. It\u2019s a banner day when I hit a milestone, like 3,000, which I did last month!) Sometimes the entries are so simple (the smell of coffee brewing in the morning) and other times sublime (someone getting a good diagnosis). Most days it\u2019s somewhere in between. Once you start this practice, you\u2019ll find yourself noticing things as you go about your day and thinking, \u201cOh, I can\u2019t forget to write that down tonight.\u201d Of course, you can always jot down those blessings as you go \u2014 on your phone, in a planner, whatever is handy. When I do notice something like that and I\u2019m not near my journal, I often speak the blessing or happy moment out loud to memorialize it in some way. It makes it more real (and less likely I\u2019ll forget it when I get to bedtime).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a sample from a recent entry:<\/p>\n