After creating major themes to focus on this birthday year, I made a huge list of potential mini goals I want to complete. I've narrowed it down to 3 themes, 12 goals, and 12 months starting in October 2020. One of the themes for this year is what I like to call "Thoughts" Some of the ideas around this are: How do I increase positive thoughts and emotions? How much or little will I let social media control my thoughts and ideas? How do I create more stillness in my life? How do I organize and filter my thoughts and prioritize what's important? For the month of October, my goal is to practice gratitude for 31 days straight by taking daily photographs based on a...
"I don't want to wait for our lives to be over" best told by Paula Cole is a quote I think about quite often. Life gets so busy and complicated, we sometimes forget the reason we are living our lives. Menial tasks, day in and day out, without purpose, and at the end of the day, we look back, and realize that so much time has passed, and we either have no recollection of what we've done or we believe that we haven't done anything. And yet, the word busy gets passed around like hot cakes! Why does that happen? How does time fly and we only notice at major events like new years, birthdays, or the beginning of a new school year...
I'll be posting Monday Morning Reads here on awake on monday in hopes of bringing value to you and your mornings. It's important to me that this website is not just a place to buy things but also a site that provides inspiration and guidance for going after the life you want. In that, I am also doing this for myself. I've learned that building habits and routines are the foundation to anyone's success. A few more things come to mind; i.e. a positive mindset, and expectations... but that's for another Monday Morning Read. So, yes, it's selfishly for me, it provides structure in my routine to talk about things I'm finding are crucial for overall fulfillment (see how I...
I felt something was missing in my life. I was sleepwalking. Unaware of what I was doing, and more importantly WHY I was doing it. This is important because the name comes from this desire of wanting more, yet understanding that it is only truly possible if you let that desire go. The inspiration for the name comes in two parts. Awake: Inspired a few months after reading the book Awakening to your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle. I was going through life's motions, but without any real purpose. This book taught me the importance of the here and the now, letting go of negative thoughts that I was consuming, and being present to what I was doing. This is...