Judith Ashley is the author
of The Sacred Women's Circle series, romantic fiction that honors spiritual
traditions that nurture the soul.
I don’t know
about you, but I do better when I have a theme or focus for myself when I write
blog posts. If you read my December posts (you can just scroll down), you’ll
see that all my Monday posts were about Peace. And they are updated from my
January 2016 posts which were also on Peace.
This January I
decided on the theme of “Taking Care of Yourself”.
On this second
day of the New Year my question is “What Went
Well in 2016?” or “What Happened
in 2016 that you most pleased with/proud of?”
Notice I’m only
asking you to find something that worked out well. If your life went along like
mine, you had some downturns but somewhere during those 365 days, things did go
right.
My 2016 list
includes
1. Finishing the last two books in the
Original Sacred Women’s Circle series. They are available in e-books and soon
will be available in print.
2.
Learning programs that help me
connect with readers: ConvertKit, Book Funnel, WeebleyPro, etc.
3.
Taking care of myself physically
(no flour, no obvious sugar eating plan), mentally (stop whatever I’m doing
when negatively stressed), emotionally (start and end my day in gratitude for
what I have and what has happened).
My list is longer
but this gives you an idea. Be sure to add something specific about your
accomplishment. For example: for taking
care of myself physically, I added two specific actions.
Also note that I
do not include what went wrong, what I didn’t accomplish, where I fell short.
While we may bamboozle ourselves by saying we do better when we criticize or
chastise or even punish ourselves when we are not successful, I know from
personal experience that moving to the “positive” works better. It is a little
(or a lot) uncomfortable at first but it can be done.
I’ll be back next
Monday with another question for you about “Taking
Care of Yourself”.
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