As you take the time to reflect this week, I hope you remember how important you are—and how important your perspective is.
Below are 6 journal prompts for you to explore, one for each dimension of your perspective.
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Personal History
The word tradition is derived from the Latin word tradere, which means "to transmit, to hand over, or to give for safekeeping."
Throughout history, traditions have served as the glue that binds generations of humanity together. Holidays are often a time when we reflect on the traditions passed down through the years, ones that connect us to our past and to each other.
What traditions have been passed down through generations of your family?
Environment
Sometimes, our souls feel called to certain places in ways that can’t be easily explained.
If money were no object and you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? What place is calling your soul?
Beliefs
You will always follow through on who you believe you are.
Who do you believe yourself to be? What do you believe you are capable of?
Emotions
I've been seeing the word 'sonder' floating around on the internet a lot this week.
Here is the definition:
(n.) the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
(Source: Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)
Does this realization make you feel more connected—or more alone?
Relationships
When in doubt, talk it out.
Relationships can suffer when communication breaks down, and so much can get lost in assumptions. This week has been a powerful reminder for me of how essential it is to carve out intentional time to truly listen and be heard.
What’s one conversation you need to have?
Identity
This week I am excited to share a beautiful excerpt written by a member of our community, Aundi. She is a talented writer and the creator of The Yellow Focus (@theyellowfocus), a curated page filled with uplifting and mindful reminders designed to brighten your day.
Here’s what she has shared with us regarding identity:
Identity growing up has been a foreign concept to me. I was nothing to myself and everything to everyone around me. My childhood was basically survival and performance. The constant desire and need to be seen. To be acknowledged. To get a "Well done." This served me well as a kid, but growing up, I've caught myself feeling sad and less than because of comparison and jealousy. Root of it, not feeling good enough. I've compared myself to the people I loved dearly and gotten jealous every time something beautiful happened to them and not to me first. Be it getting a job, a partner, or even something I've seen them work so hard to actually acquire. Something they wholeheartedly deserved. The audacity to be so entitled.
I'm learning to immediately call myself out. To constantly lean back to how blessed I am. To remember that I am living in my answered prayers. To focus on collaboration more than competition. To understand that there is unique freedom from living in a lane that you have created for yourself. One that is based on your vision, dreams and goals. Freedom for authenticity where every decision reflects who you are and where you're headed. Of course, the process and journey isn't linear but I'm learning to enjoy it and be extremely kind to myself through it all. To simply dwell on progression and not the illusion of there. Because nothing compares to the peace and joy of thriving in a space that you've created for yourself.
What fuels comparison and jealousy for you? How can you shift your focus to strengthen your sense of self?