Prompt: Pieces – 05 | What makes you, you?
There are many things that make me, me. Like loving my family, working hard, being reliable, helping others, showing up, finishing things, doing it anyway. These are the pieces of who I am and they all make up what’s important to me.
But at the core of everything is my burning desire to grow. To learn more, to do better, to be better. Intentional growth is the fuel that keeps me going. Setting goals and creating projects that enable those goals is who I am. It’s what makes me, me.
I’ve learned over the years that if I wait to be in the mood to do something, I will likely wait forever. There are very, very few things I am in the mood to do. However there are many, many things I am very happy to have done. Even the things I love doing can fall into that category: like art and reading. It’s easy for me to not want to do anything. But when I look back at all that I did, I am always unequivocally happy and proud and grateful.
So I set intentions, I make plans, I get intentional.
This is how I grow and learn and become the person I hope to be. This is the biggest part of what makes me, me.
This year I am planning to do something different than last year. Around last September, I stopped taking a lot of daily photos which then meant I also stopped scrapbooking. I have several of the Story Kit’s piled up. So I decided to switch gears a bit and see if I can use Ali’s prompts to tell my stories. I might (or might not) also turn them into scrapbook pages. In the meantime, I will just enjoy telling my stories.
Stories from 2020 is a year-long project for 2019. You can read more about my projects for 2020 here. The prompts are from Ali’s Story Kits unless mentioned otherwise. I have started an instagram account for these, we’ll see if I keep it up.
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