Seconds of Celebration

With the start of the New Year everyone has their goals, their word of the year, their vision boards laid out in spaces they can see them. There is this new hope, new spark of energy, new excitement for whats to come, and I freaking LOVE IT! I am so here for it, there here hope, there is passion, there is excitement in the air and I thrive off of it, but we all know that it fizzles out and that hard work comes into play and sometime those goals we set for ourselves time and time again just go to the waste side, and if your like me we start to beat ourselves up and feel like a failure, so what if we changed that. What if for the New Year we focus on finding Seconds of Celebrations, a year where each day we pause take a moment and celebrate something good, we take a moment for gratitude, appreciation, and to celebrate something in our day! It doesn't need to be long, less than a minute, but a pause in our crazy lives to realize that it may suck today but among the suck there is joy hope and celebration with in us, we just have to be willing to look and see it!

I thought of this idea after 2021 kicking my ass, its kinda funny I have a letter board on my book shelf that says bring it 2021 and well it freaking did and I was NOT ready for it at all! I let it get the best of me mentally and had more bad days than good and really struggled with seeing any good, value or worth within myself. In August I started therapy because the negative thoughts where getting very extreme and I knew that I needed some help, help it has been and then so much more! Although there are sessions that are more challenging than others I am learning who I really am and working through the struggles of my comparison and perfection, bringing to light that those will always be something I deal with they wont go away but how do I deal with them in a healthy way that is best for me! How do I find joy and happiness within myself, they are all the things that I am working on and hoping to share with y'all through this blog! I am willing to get raw open and real with you to remind you that you are not alone. That we all have struggles and battles we face within ourselves and we live in a digital world where its so easy to remember those things because we see others living their highlight lives each and everyday!

Because I struggled with so many hard days this past year and struggled to find good, I wanted to change that for 2022. I am a woman full of determination and resilience, I am not afraid to change things if I don't like them (being real there are some days that I question why I am trying to do the change and that it is easier to stay the same sometimes. (example, finding self happiness is the hardest thing in the world and some days I find myself saying its just easier to be make others happy than myself)). That being said I wanted to change the way I looked at this year and to bring the joyful self I had before the pandemic, I know that I wont ever go back to being the girl I was before I set out for this journey in 2021 and none of us will ever be the same after these past 2 years, but I know that there is happiness and joy to be found within if I look for it and not let the negative take over! I was journaling one morning and thought I love celebrating, give me something to celebrate and plan a celebration around and I freaking LOVE it, so how can I bring something that I love to everyday? How can I bring appreciation and gratitude to everyday without calling it that and making it fun? I don't want anything that is going to take a ton of time during my day as they are jammed pack with owning a business and working full time as a retail bank manager. Then it came to me #secondsofcelebration just a moment out of each day to pause, and celebrate something good that has happened in your day. Nothing big, it can be I got a workout in, I made a fulfilling dense nutrient filled meal, I got to spend some extra time with my husband, just a moment to smile and realize that there is so much GOOD all around us if we bring attention and awareness! Each day for the next 365 days I will pause take out a small piece of paper and write down a celebration for the day, then at the end of the year I will go back and read each one of the celebrations as a reminder of all the gifts the lord provides us!

Now I encourage you, JOIN ME! Join me in this journey, where we take a moment to pause and celebrate those simple things in life, bringing appreciation to the good in life! I think we will all be surprised at what life will bring us if we open our eyes to it :)