It says: You are worthy of love. You are worthy of happiness. You are worthy of all good things.
a little shimmer:
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
- Weekly Intention: My intention this week is to step back a bit. I think I’ve been struggling a lot lately in several areas. I am definitely struggling with my food and the choices I make there. I am struggling to stay on top of my mails at work and do all the context switching required for me to do my job well lately. I am still trying to get a hold on my schedule and figure out when I do what. I am also struggling on a personal level with my attitude and outlook. While I am holding everything up, I feel very tired, resentful and quick to anger lately. I also feel a strong sense of scarcity. Especially on the weekends. So I want to take a big step back, take a good look at what’s going on and why I feel the way I do. This is not how I want to live out my days/moments. I want to make purposeful choices and then act upon them. For me to be able to do that, I need to be clear on my purpose, on how I feel, on what I want to do, etc. My plan is to do some soul searching but mostly a lot of journaling. Writing things down, making plans, organizing my life, putting how I feel down on paper always helps me connect with myself. So that’s my plan. At least that’s the first step I plan to take. If that doesn’t work, there’s always more things to try.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to tackle my work schedule. Figure out what I like and what’s tough and how I want to change things moving forward.
- Two: I will choose to journal about my feelings around life right now, what’s tough, what’s working, what do I want to do differently.
- Three: I will choose to take time for myself this week. Block it out on my calendar and use it to reflect.
- I am looking forward to: book club. it will be at my home this week and i like hosting it.
- This week’s challenges: lit club. just because I am not sure what I am walking into. Also going to work twice and each kid has a day off school this week so a lot to juggle.
- Top Goals:
- Work: My intention this week is to make a plan for each time I work with.
- Personal: I wrote this last week but didn’t do it so I will repeat that I want to spend time journaling.
- Family: I want to be less tired when I am around my kids. I want to read to Nathaniel.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to my soul. I think I really need it.
- I will be strong and get organized. I know I am getting in my own way.
- I will be generous with kindness to myself. I will take time to rest.
- I will be true to who I want to be. I will take the time to reflect and understand what I want so I can act intentionally.
- I will be brave and say what needs to be said. I will not be afraid to admit what I don’t know.
- This week, I want to remember: that things will be ok. there isn’t much a lot of sleep and rest won’t cure. And journaling.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
It says: You make the world a better place. You really do. Your life makes a difference.
It’s quite shimmery:
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
- Three Choices I made this week:
- One: I chose to work hard while in Seattle and ran my mile every morning anyway.
- Two: I chose to commit to a recurring volunteer slot at David’s school.
- Three: I chose to take a rest day on Sunday. I am struggling with resting.
- I read/learned: I am still slowly savoring Paradise in Plain Sight but I almost finished Finding Your Own North Star and I just finished The Nix which I loved. I’m also a third of the way through Hoot as part of the Lit Club I am leading with another parent at David’s school for third and forth graders.
- I celebrate: I celebrate being back home for two weeks. I like working hard when I travel but I am feeling exhausted lately and need some rest.
- I am grateful for: my husband. He’s been so very kind to me always and I feel so lucky to have him in my life.
- I focused on my health by:
- I am still failing on the food and the 7minute. this is why it’s important not to stop!
- Walked 10K+ daily except today.
- Ran 1 mile every week day.
- I made art: I worked on my September and October OLW this week. I love this class.
- I let go of: I let go of doing anything today. I needed to rest. I still need to rest more I think.
- Core Desire Check-in:
- Kind: I’ve been kind to parents at Nathaniel’s school.
- Strong: I have been working extra hard lately. It’s hard but I am hanging in there.
- True: I was true and had a lot of 1-1s this week to connect with my teams.
- Generous: I’ve been generous with my joy of listening to The Nix this week. I enjoyed it so much.
- Brave: I was brave to do the lit club at David’s school. I am looking forward to it but nervous, too.
Here’s to another good week! 🙂
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
It says: You are enough today. Right now.
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
It says: You don’t have to hustle for worthiness. You are already worthy.
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
I read Fates and Furies because amazon said it was the best book of 2015. This book was weird. I really didn’t like the first half much but I knew there was a big twist in the second half so I endured it. And indeed the second half was much more interesting.
But.
But it was a depressing book in the end because of what it said about humans. (At least those humans.) and I just don’t like books like that.
A lot of other people loved it though.
It says: Let yourself enjoy the good things that happen to you.
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
It says: You are loved more than you can imagine. You always have been.
It’s quite shimmery:
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
And here we are, middle school.
In the last six months, David went from a fifth grader to a glasses-wearing, braces-wearing middle schooler. He started his new school and has already made friends, found his way around school and is on top of his homework.
I have to admit that each time I am on the campus, I feel so grateful that he is going to a school like the one he’s going to where he’s challenged and also cared for and I cannot wait to see the impact of this wonderful place on him. I hope that it’s as magical as we are thinking it will be and I hope that he makes some lifelong friends here just like I did in my middle/high school.
This is the school, assuming nothing changes, David will graduate from to go to college. This is the school where he will grow up to be the person he will be. This is the school that will help set him on the road the chooses to follow. This is the school where his love of learning will be fostered and celebrated.
Here’s to a wonderful new beginning.
We are so incredibly proud of you my wonderful son.
Stories from 2016 is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
- Weekly Intention: My intention this week is to catch up to a few work todos I’ve been putting off, but mostly it’s to deep dive into some of the teams I’ve been working with in Seattle because I’m leaving for Seattle on Tuesday night for two days and while there I’d like to learn as much as possible, form personal connections, understand needs, and as always, walk away feeling like the trip was 100% worth it. I would like my days both at home and there to be full, productive, but not exhausting. Let’s see if I can pull it off.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to think about my food. Create new habits around how I eat. This is not about losing weight, giving up sugar or anything extreme/judgmental. Honestly, I just want to be thoughtful about the food I eat and see if I can make conscious choices and also focus more on energy-giving food. I am working hard and long hours, I am running everyday, I am taxing my brain, my heart, my soul, my body so it’s only fair that I can use both food and sleep to replenish some of it. I feel like I respect and value sleep but I don’t extend the same courtesy to food and I’d like to take the first step here.
- Two: I will choose to rest as much as I can this week. Take time to sleep and rest.
- Three: I will choose to do no more than two social events this week. Being in Seattle will already be hard so I want to take it easy.
- I am looking forward to: Seattle: meeting everyone in person. learning more. digging deeper.
- This week’s challenges: Seattle: being away from home is always hard for me. I miss the kids, I work hard, don’t sleep well and feel exhausted. But I am also always glad I went.
- Top Goals:
- Work: My intention this week is to make connections that allow me to do my job well.
- Personal: I’d like to figure out a plan around journaling. it’s my connection to self-awareness and I would like to find time for it.
- Family: I want to do a better job protecting the time between 3:30-6pm for Nathaniel and me.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to my husband this week and try to prepare for when I’ll be out of town.
- I will be strong and do what I need to do to be successful at my work. Even if it means being “annoying” sometimes.
- I will be generous with my time while at Seattle but also take time for me and my family when I am back.
- I will be true to myself. Be who I am, good and bad.
- I will be brave and setup meetings with people I don’t know and try to see if I can get things done.
- This week, I want to remember: that I have the best of intentions. When things are working, I love my job, I love my family, I love my life. And my point of view and interpretation of words has a lot to do with whether I am at my worst or my best. I will choose to assume the best of others, I will choose to hear things from the most positive perspective and I will choose to show up as my best self everywhere I go.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
As September rolled in, I had no idea what I was going to do for my October project. I hadn’t done art in a while and I was feeling rusty and uninspired. I had a lot of ideas around what i “should” do but nothing that really called to me. As the days passed and I felt down in general, I had the thought that maybe I should do more truth cards. I hadn’t made any since 2011 and maybe it was time again.
As if hearing my thoughts, Melody announced that she had revamped the Soul Restoration class and was going to relaunch it on September 6. Sometimes life is full of coincidences. Sometimes things show up just when you need them.
And so it was.
Truth cards for October.
It says: Just Start.
Truth Cards is a Monthly Project for October 2016. All of the words belong to Melody Ross. These are a part of the Soul Restoration class in Brave Girls University, I cannot recommend it enough. Here are some thoughts from when I first took it. It’s even better now because Melody added so much more! You can sign up here. (I teach there, too.) You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
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