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 Year of Yes – 281
Happy Friday. Today was hectic and full but I still feel the ease I’ve been trying to hang on to. Let’s see how long I can stay with it. I hope your weekend plans are exactly as much or as little as you like. Yes to choosing the life you want. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 280
This morning I had a moment where I realized that I am not anxiously stressing about anything actively at this moment. I have some things sitting there in low noise bit nothing really taking up constant space in my brain. Is this how others’ feel? If so, I’m so jealous! I am making sure to note this moment because it doesn’t happen often but it does happen and it’s important to acknowledge it so I can remember what’s possible. Yes to ease. Yes to paying attention. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 279
For the first time since March of 2020, I got to go to work today to the building where I work and see a few of my work colleagues. It was quite magical. It felt weird and nice at the same time. I wonder when it will feel normal again. Yes to baby steps. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 278 I am learning to write things down. It’s amazing that I have to learn and relearn this trick but here we are. I’ve been making a lot of lists in my head lately. Things I am anxious about. Things I have to get done. Things I need to follow through on. Etc. When they are in my head, I keep having to repeat them to myself again and again so I don’t forget. When I write it down, there it is on paper. I can see it, I can cross it off and I don’t have to worry about forgetting. Obvious and yet I had stopped doing it for some reason. Yes to writing things down! #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 277
I’ve been consciously working towards paying attention to the direction of the flow lately and trying to see where I can go with the flow vs swimming upstream too often. I’ve also actively been putting down things that aren’t mine to carry. And being intentional and really clear with what’s actually mine to carry. Much of this also comes with trusting others and trusting the universe and I am working on that too. When possible, swimming in the direction of the flow is considerably easier and creates space for so much more. Yes to ease. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 276 The days are passing quickly. Especially the weekend days. I did not spend my day wisely today. And yet I still managed to connect with my nephew and my mom. And I am sitting outside with my husband listening to the planes, crickets and my book. We’re going to call it a win. Yes to letting it be. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 275
September felt like a stressful and challenging month for me. And yet, today, I was looking back at the goals I’d set for the month and I checked off more items this month than I had in a while. Which was odd. It shows, yes again, that my perception isn’t reality. And thanks to my friend Kelly, I now do seem to have a bit of a routine again. So maybe there’s hope for this fall after all. Yes to hope. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 274
Every Friday I am grateful for the week coming to an end and getting some downtime. Now even more than before, I find that the line between work and life is blurred and things still feel like walking through mud too often. So when the week comes to an end, I welcome the rest. Now more than ever. Yes to rest. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 273
May your day be full of rainbows. Yes to joy. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 272
Here’s something I realized today. Let’s say I get to have a cup of energy every day. It’s like a glass full of water and I get to sip it with each person, each meeting, each email or whatever. I get to decide who or what gets how much from the cup. But here’s what I don’t get to decide: I don’t get to have endless cups or endless “water.” The cup is a specific size and it starts full most mornings and it doesn’t get a refill during the day. So it’s all I get to have. If I use it up by 10am, that’s all there is and no one or nothing gets to have any when the cup is empty. So, knowing that, it’s important for me to make sure that I am intentional in how I use my “water” for the day. If I want to live inside out, honoring my values, well I’d better distribute the water so most of it goes towards the people and things that are aligned with my values. If I care the full amount about everything ( which I, sadly, often do ) then I am living life as if there is a bottomless cup or infinite cups. There isn’t. So this is my lesson of the day. This might already be obvious to others but it wasn’t to me. I know this to be true about time and I generally use my time very intentionally but until today I didn’t really consider this to be true about my energy and my worry. I am anxious about all the things and all the times, and, well that doesn’t work. So now I will imagine a cup every morning and as I move through my day I will be careful about when and how I use up what’s in it. Yes to being intentional. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 271
I caught this on the way to dropping off my son this morning and I am sitting in the backyard right now as the sun sets. The days are getting shorter and winter is coming. There’s not much on my mind tonight. I am thinking about next year a little and my goals but mostly I am just here tonight. Present and quiet and just being. Yes to being here and now. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 270
The last week has been full of anxiety for me I’ve still done all the things I usually do. Drive the kids to the bus, helped with homework, climbed, worked, etc. But underlying the whole week was this anxiety. Just a reminder that we never know what’s going on with people. So it’s best to always be kind. Yes to being kind. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes |
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