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 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  Year of Yes – 269
When the kids were young, I used to tickle them during family photos to get some genuine laughs. As they got bigger and stronger, they got better at stopping me so I had to devise a better strategy to ensure we didn’t end up with a bunch of fake smiles. We start our sessions with smiles, and then do a bunch of faces (sad face, angry face, shocked face, etc.) And then we start to fake laugh. I told the kids that the camera can’t tell when you’re fake laughing so we fake it. And the camera can’t tell. But here’s the best part: a few seconds into the fake laughing we start laughing for real. We can’t help it. The whole thing feels so absurd that we start laughing and laughing and laughing. And the camera captures those too. Sometimes faking it till you make it is the best strategy after all. Yes to laughter. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 268
Played with lots of paint today while I listened to a good book. Painting, journaling, reading. These things never get old for me. I am so grateful to the people who fill our lives with stories to read, stories to watch, they create worlds we can live in however briefly and let us peek into other worlds. How magical is that? Yes to celebrating storytellers. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 267
The weekend is here and all I want to do is rest and hug my people. This little boy is always there for it. He’s kind and generous and so very loving. I am grateful every single day for him. I’m grateful for my friend Evelyn who came over today. I’m grateful that my older boy spent time hanging out with his friends after school today. I’m grateful that my husband is spending time with his brother tonight. Yes to people who fill our lives with joy. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 266
Wishing I was there right now. Don’t have much to say tonight. It’s been a long week and it’s not over yet. Yes to being here with what is. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes  Year of Yes – 265
Happy equinox. There are 100 days left in 2021. Depending on who you are and how you filter life, this might feel exciting that we still get 100 more days or alarming that we only have 100 left. I’m in neither camp today. These days I am leaning into “it is what it is” attitude and trying not make a bigger meaning around things. I’ve been really tired lately and have a lot of headaches so I’ve been giving myself grace with what I can get done. Some things are behind and others are doing ok. I’m regressing and I am progressing and I am also standing still in some areas. And that’s just what it is. Yes to what is. #yearofyes #karenikayearofyes |
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