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Morning Reflections

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This is the second week of my “Create The Day” Series.

How will you create your day, your week, your year? The power is in our own hands to create a life we love. This week I’d like to create with gratitude and joy (I hope I can).

This weeks theme is Gratitude

This morning I woke up feeling grateful for the soft bed and fluffy downy comforter, a little too grateful maybe. I wanted to stay in bed. The mornings are the most difficult time for me because I’m never quite ready to greet the new day.

My husband is a morning person and gets up at 5:00 AM. He’s usually quiet at first, reading and meditating for awhile, and then begins his morning routine. By 7:00 the music drifts up from his basement office, and by 7:45 he’s banging around in the kitchen just outside the bedroom door. I wish I were a morning person, it’s such a lovely routine he has.

I’m a night person. I get inspired at night and I have trouble falling asleep. I often stay up until 2:00 AM. Even if I try to go to bed earlier, it’s useless before midnight. Even when I’ve taken pills or herbs to make myself fall asleep before midnight, I still don’t wake up refreshed in the morning.

I have to get out of bed and start the day, so I try to think of something I’m grateful for. I’m grateful for coffee! I got up early for many years because of my children, helping them get ready for school. I am so grateful for my children, they are the light of my life, but now they don’t need me like they used to.

I used to have a job that I had to get up at 4 or 5 AM for. I loved that job, but I’m grateful that I’m not still doing it at this time in my life. You see, I’ve spent many years doing what needed to be done, taking care of whatever needed to be taken care of, and that’s what got me up in the morning. I’m grateful for that, but it’s time to move on.

Now, I want to create my days with intention. It’s not easy though, having been an urgent responder for so many years, to take back control and focus in a new direction. In some ways, when your children grow up and move on there’s a lot to clean up from the past. There has to be a way to organize, store, and save the treasures as well as throw out the trash and give away the leftovers. Teenagers and young adults are not always receptive to these changes, but it has to be done if I’m going to move on in my own life.

I’m a person of movement and I’m grateful that I can still move. For me, life is about change and growth and discovering all the beauty and goodness there is to be grateful for. I’m grateful for the past, but I’m more grateful that I still have time to do new things, to meet new people and to create in new ways. Maybe I should write this on my ceiling so I can read it every morning to motivate myself out of bed.

 

Create The Day!

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With Joy

I love new beginnings, starting new projects, or creating something new. Since we are still in the early days of the Solar New Year and I made a resolution to write & post more, I thought this would be a good time to start a series.

When I thought about my goals I realized that every day is a new opportunity to create my life, to be the best I can be in that moment for whatever situation I am in. That doesn’t mean being perfect, it simply means I have the power to make positive choices that will enhance my life or the lives of others. Every day is an opportunity to creatively use my energy in a valuable way.

For this reason the initial themes of this series will focus on internal attitudes that allow creativity to flow, like joy, love & gratitude. Later the themes may be focused on more external expressions of creativity. Anyone can jump in at any time with this series and you’re not obligated to do it every week. However, I will be posting the linkey every week, along with my own post for that weeks theme.

“Create The Day!” Theme Hop

This is how it works:

  1. Every Tuesday starting 1/24/2012 I will post a linkey with a  different “Create The Day” theme.

  2. Link up one of your previous posts or create a new post that matches the theme.

  3. Hop to find inspiration and new friends to follow.

  4. Leave a sincere comment when you visit or follow.

  5. Please follow Create A Beautiful Life, and any guest host. If you would like to be a guest host just leave a comment letting me know.

Your posts can be anything; photos, stories, poetry, crafts, music, art, or just your regular post, as long as it’s family friendly. That’s all there is to it. This is a 21 week series. The linky post will stay up Tue.-Wed. to give everyone time to link up and follow. So here is the theme for the first week:

Create The Day With Joy!