One Month Milestone

February 13th: I’m celebrating my first milestone; completion of month one in my Year of Gratitude project.  I’ve posted every day except one, and only in a few cases did I resort to just a sentence or two.  What have I learned so far?

• I can show up when I put my mind to it – yeah!  I was beginning to worry that the long haul was out of reach for anything other than the most serious stuff — marriage and income generation.
• Writing is very therapeutic.
• It’s not difficult to find things, moments, or people to be grateful for once you re-educate yourself to think this way.  Open your eyes and look around.
• Gratitude is sometimes difficult to characterize.  Sometimes it’s a general feeling of well-being, something I find very difficult to put into words.
• Sometimes I get ahead of myself – instead of being in the present moment and having faith that tomorrow’s topic will reveal itself I wrestle with what I’m going to write about next. This is a habit I’ve developed about most things which means this blog serves another purpose — it’s an opportunity to practice being here now.
• I am writing for myself, but I’d be lying if I said the reader didn’t enter the picture.  Every writer hopes for a reader.  Come on, be honest.
• Validation is an addiction.  Instead of constantly checking Facebook or the blog for feedback I need to let it go – set it free – move on.
• In WordPress I’ve learned how to manage my media files better, use categories and tags, widgets and some plug-ins and I’ve added printing capability to my posts.
• I’ve learned I can make a book from my blog!  Wow, that would be something.

I’m grateful to reach this point in my writing project because it’s a sense of accomplishment and leaves me with a feeling of good will.