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For this month, I picked Listen Carefully. I wanted to go deeper this month. Notice what I am missing. What am I not paying attention to? What more could I see? Am I misinterpreting anything? I just wanted to pay attention even further. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked participate. Before saying goodbye to September, I wanted to try one more intention around being social. I wanted to take it up one notch from showing up so I chose participate. Not just get there but be there, join in, be a part of whatever’s going on. Even if it feels like I am not welcome, I almost always am. I just have to be willing to try. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked show up. As with most things, the first step is the hardest. For being social, that’s often showing up. Once I get there, I find a way to navigate through it but leaving the comfort of my home is generally undesired for me. So this week’s goal is to show up again and again. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Without realizing it, I picked the same lettering two weeks in a row 🙂 Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked praise. One of the things I want to focus on this year (which might be obvious with the word listen) is to focus on the other person and not on me during a social interaction. I feel like praising is directly aligned with that. Finding something wonderful about each person I interact with and seeing the very best of them. I love that. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked volunteer. One way I can see myself being more social is with a purpose. So if I volunteer to do things that need to be done, to help a cause, I know that I will show up and I will feel like my presence matters. As a side effect, I also get to be more social. In my world, that’s a win-win! Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this month, I picked “listen socially.” While I am super talkative, being social is not something that comes naturally to me. I much prefer to be alone, doing my own thing. This month is all about getting out there, reach out to some of the people I’ve fallen out of touch with but I still miss and want to reconnect with. I could no longer find where I got the lettering.. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked record. There’s lots of proof that we need to write down our gratitude to remember it. So we need to record the things we’re grateful for. I used to do this but i’ve fallen out of the habit. I need to get back in it. Apparently once a week is the right amount. Not too frequent so as to not take it seriously but frequent enough for it to be meaningful. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. Are you recording your gratitude? Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
This week’s photo is blurry for some inexplicable reason. For this week, I picked observe. What’s the best way to show gratitude? One of the important aspects of being grateful is observing your life and noticing the millions of things you have to be grateful for. If I don’t observe, I miss so many of these. Here’s the pin where I got the lettering.. What would you see in your life if you were observing more closely? Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked celebrate. What’s the best way to show gratitude? With a celebration of course! Once I am aware of all that I am grateful for, celebrating comes naturally to me. I also want to bring back our weekly celebration parties. I will have to think of a creative way to do that. Let’s see what this week brings.. The lettering I used here comes from a book. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
Hello August. For this month, I decided to go with Gratitude. I decided it would be too cliche to leave it to November and I could use some gratitude before the summer is over and I am thrown back into the rush and insanity of school. So gratitude it is. For the last days of summer. For all our awesome vacations. For our lovely little life. The lettering I used here comes from a book. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
After a short hiatus on this project, I realized that what was driving me mad was coming up with ideas of what to draw each week. What would line up with the topic. But then I remembered that the intent of this project is to practice lettering and to create intentions around my word each week. Neither of these require a sketch so I decided to forgo it. Onward. This week is all about smiling. Yet another awesome patience tool. If I smile, it stops me from rushing or from getting irritated. It’s a great tool. The lettering I used here comes from this pin. The image here is supposed to be mountains to imply looking beyond something. Looking for other things on the horizon. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.
For this week, I picked wait. Wait is different than pause in that it is a specific act I want to do while I listen. When I think the other person is not done, I want to be able to wait longer, better. When I think they are done, I still want to wait a bit longer and see what more comes. I know that if I wait, more always comes. And often that’s where the gold is. So wait I shall. The lettering I used here comes from a book. The image here is supposed to be a chair to sit on while I wait. Listen with Intent is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here. |
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