Good things happen everyday.
And yet, sometimes it feels like the good starts on the weekends.
Sometimes I feel like I live for weekends. Do you ever feel like that? Like a week is made up of days that seem to blur together and you can’t tell one day from the other?
Like Monday begins a new countdown to Friday and by Sunday morning (and Saturday night) I feel the dread of a looming Monday. I hope I’m not the only one who feels like each week slowly trudges forward into a weekend that zooms.
It is the end of May.
On one hand, we are about 6 months into the year and on the other hand, the last 2 months felt like a year. Time might be flying but can also feel like the days escape us. We try to be SO productive but we can’t remember the good things we do.
Can you relate? Sometimes, I know I can’t remember what I ate yesterday or remember what I did 3 days ago.
Or maybe you can totally recall the stressful workday you had yesterday or ponder the comment you heard someone make about you, but you cannot think of any good thing that has happened.
I think we are far too good at remembering the bad things that happen…
…then we let the good things slip by us forgotten, the impact fading as we deal with all else that arrives in the present.
There are ways to work on this. Good things happen every single day whatever we remember them or not. Even the absence of problems is a good thing (am I right?).
What are we grateful for?
It takes intention to remember the good but I think the good is worth capturing. The question is: what are we grateful for?
Years ago, I started writing in a calendar the daily things I was grateful for.
Each night, I’d write a few things I was thankful for…something exciting, happy, beautiful or new that happened. Each day became a beautiful piece of life and each month became a collage of occurrences I was grateful for.
If you’ve been feeling like the months are leaving you behind, try challenging yourself to record your gratitude.
These quickly passing days are better than you remember but unless you take note of the good things happening in the present, you might sail into the future without remembering the good that happen in your everyday.
The Takeaway
I hope you’ll consider challenging yourself to writing down the things you are grateful for. Whether you write them in your journal or in a calendar for a visual glimpse, taking note of the good things–the positive things–might begin changing your everyday–one day at a time.
For more on being intentional, you can take a look at more posts on noting positivity in your everyday life.
