Thank you for the challenges, opportunity, and beauty of this day.
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How do you start and end your day? Is it with anger or sadness or happiness or gratitude?
For myself? I try to start and end with gratitude. I even remind myself about it throughout the day.
Back in 2015, one of my goals was to show more gratitude and be thankful for what each day brings to me. I searched for a phrase or a mantra to support that goal. My vision board was covered with phrases like give thanks and be more grateful. But I was really having a hard time finding that certain phrase that felt right for me.
In going through my notebooks (you know, those trusty Moleskines that I write everything in) I found this phrase. I don’t know where it comes from. I don’t know if I created and wrote it in my notebook or if I saw it somewhere and copied it. But I like it, somehow it feels right to me. And it feels like something that can both start and end a day.
Challenges allow me to grow and be strong and I hope that I’m able to see the opportunities that are there for me. And I always hope to find beauty in the world around me either through people or nature. I’m not sure that I’ve acknowledged my thankfulness for all of it in the past, but now I feel like I’ve found my one way to start and end each day.
But it’s not just something that I say in the morning and at night. I have the phrase written where I can see it at work. When I have a challenging customer who is pushing all of my buttons like they know a secret code, I read that phrase. I breathe deep, release my shoulders, and then remind myself to be grateful for the lesson I’m learning while I’m handling this customer.
What is your daily mantra?
Mine is really the start of my prayer. Every morning I say to God, ” Thank you for the Gift of this day…”
Oh this is a beautiful mantra. While I go through the day saying thank you, I start the day with “I am open and receptive to the joy abundance of the Universe’.
Hi Jennifer, I love this! And it’s so true that every situation everyday brings us something to either learn from or to be positive about. Ok, some days are harder than others…. but you’re right that gratitude really does help set the day up. It almost becomes a ‘bring it on’ mindset – I can take it all – haha 😉
Hi Jennifer, I start each day with a prayer of gratitude to the Lord for a new day with fresh opportunity, grateful to be a part of whatever will come my way. I like how you keep your mantra with you throughout the day and use it as needed!
I don’t really have a mantra as such but every now and again things come to me or I read a quote and think that it would be perfect for this type of daily saying. Your is a lovely gentle mantra! #mlstl
Love this! My best days are the days that I can steal a moment with some mindfulness and a bit of Bible study…those days seems so rare this chapter, but when it works, that makes those days that much more magnificent.
It’s funny, I find that the more the world falls apart, the more I think this just might be heaven–even with all its flaws. So, I try to enjoy it. I remember my mom saying, this too will pass, often, over the course of her long battle with cancer. I try not to wish my days away, even when they’re hard. Guess that still doesn’t land me on a mantra–I’ll keep thinking!
Hi Jennifer – I’m a big fan of gratitude and of quotes – so this ticked lots of boxes for me. I love that it covers the tough stuff we deal with as well as the good and easy times. I’ve saved it to my Inspriational Quotes board on Pinterest to remind myself of how true it is. Thanks so much for being a part of #MLSTL
So beautiful. I agree that gratitude is key to a happy life. It opens up everything.