I don't feel like I'm a great writer or really qualified to do this but I have decided to make myself more vulnerable and share my journey to being more happy with life and more healthy. I don't necessarily consider myself an unhappy person but I would like to be more happy with the everyday things. And after 2 children, I'm definitely not the most healthy.
I'm not sure where this will head but I hope it lasts and I can use it as a journal for myself and maybe if I share it with others, it will keep my more accountable. I have felt inspired to start this journey many times and I have had moments of motivation but they have never lasted. This time, I hope to find other sources of motivation through the times that are tough. I have even often thought of blogging as a source of outlet for me but have always wanted it to be perfect before I do anything. Then nothing happens because it's not perfect. Recently I was listening to Gretchen Reuben and she mentioned that you have to just start somewhere. If everyone waited for perfection to start something, then nothing would ever get done. You have to adapt and then you can eventually reach perfection at certain moments but then what is needed for perfection will change again. It was at that time that I decided I just needed to start something. That was 2 weeks ago and I have been putting it off because I didn't know how to start. I finally am just sitting down and starting because if I don't now, I don't know if I ever will.
My daughter and I went to the library a few days ago and I picked up a few books to help me hopefully gain some self awareness with this. The first is My Year with Eleanor and second is The Myths of Happiness. I'm looking forward to reading each one and hoping that I will learn some things from each of them about how to be more happy with what I am going through no matter what is happening.
I'm not sure where this will head but I hope it lasts and I can use it as a journal for myself and maybe if I share it with others, it will keep my more accountable. I have felt inspired to start this journey many times and I have had moments of motivation but they have never lasted. This time, I hope to find other sources of motivation through the times that are tough. I have even often thought of blogging as a source of outlet for me but have always wanted it to be perfect before I do anything. Then nothing happens because it's not perfect. Recently I was listening to Gretchen Reuben and she mentioned that you have to just start somewhere. If everyone waited for perfection to start something, then nothing would ever get done. You have to adapt and then you can eventually reach perfection at certain moments but then what is needed for perfection will change again. It was at that time that I decided I just needed to start something. That was 2 weeks ago and I have been putting it off because I didn't know how to start. I finally am just sitting down and starting because if I don't now, I don't know if I ever will.
My daughter and I went to the library a few days ago and I picked up a few books to help me hopefully gain some self awareness with this. The first is My Year with Eleanor and second is The Myths of Happiness. I'm looking forward to reading each one and hoping that I will learn some things from each of them about how to be more happy with what I am going through no matter what is happening.
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