Day 17 of 30.
Every day in September, I’ve been choosing what I can do fun, or funny, that day. Today, throwing a smokey sky into the mix of this crazy year reminds me how very important is to find what lifts your spirit. As we head into an uncertain Fall and Winter, maybe you’d like to try what I’m doing today:
Quicklisting spiritlifting things.
Quicklisting means writing/typing a specific number of answers in one sitting in answer to a question. I’m going to choose 100 because I know that’s do-able, but you may not believe me yet, so choose 50?
Today I will ask, “what’s fun and lifts your spirits?” I will just start typing (setting document to automatically do numbers) and when I get to, say, number 20 and I’m stuck, I will write something like, “Oh look, there’s a spec on the floor” or “why am I doing this?” or you could write, “Janet’s ridiculous” BUT I will keep writing, anyway, until I reach 100 items.
This process is excellent at ultimately revealing answers that you had buried for one reason or another, or discovering brand new answers that will bring a sparkle to your eyes. Those last 10 items can be very telling.
And then? Give yourself permission to do those spiritlifting things. You are worth it.
Image is a photo of a card my daughter sent me from Scotland many years ago. Isn’t it stunning?
Musings of Janet L Whitehead 