My second goal has to do with my perspective on life and how it's affecting not only me but also my family and others that I could serve. So, this is related to my quest for optimism but is a smaller step. I want to watch what I'm saying and thinking and make sure that I'm being positive and grateful rather than negative and complaining. This especially applies to how I'm speaking to my children, but also my self-talk. I'm no longer allowed to say "always" or "never" as these terms are usually inaccurate and negative.
My old stake president talked about the law of abundance and the law of scarcity. Basically the principle is that you will receive more of whatever you focus on. So, if I'm always focusing on what's wrong and complaining, then things will continue to go wrong! Also, I believe the principle that we are active creators of our own lives, which means I can create more positive experiences in my life if I'm focusing on and working toward the positive.
Here we go!
Kamie
So....this goal is super vague. It's also hard for me to know for sure if I'm doing it and making progress. So, I'm going to modify it to be more specific with 4 days left haha! How about I just wrote down 5 positive things about my day before going to bed. Then I can remember my day and think about how I could've been more positive :) alrighty!
ReplyDeleteThat is great! It was one of the goals when I was in young women (in the big old white book - they transitioned while I was in high school) that in your journal every night you had to finish the sentence "I feel good about myself when..." and "Something that went right today was..." I want to know how this is going!
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