It’s a new day! When my daughter was a toddler, in the morning she would stand up in bed and say “It’s new day Daddy!” Her joy at the prospect of the new day was contagious. Lately, I find myself enjoying each new morning, a giddy feeling of joy will bubble up, and the possibilities and opportunities are glorious to behold. Feeling that childlike joy causes re-remembering that each day is a gift not a curse.
It’s not always so, I can get too focused on the treadmill of work and worries, the grind of daily obligations. Days can feel like they are coming too fast, too many demands creates a sense of being overwhelmed and colors the dawn of a new morning with low level dread and apprehension chasing away the possibility of contentment and joy for the day. Not good.
However, as a natural consequence of keeping a my 365 Commitment morning routine, I’ve noticed that my mindset is is more often oriented toward seeing life as a gift, and feeling gratitude . Just as we can experience incremental improvement with the physical through daily disciplined exercise, we can experience the strengthening of our 365 Commitment through daily incremental focus. Daily re-commitment happens as a matter of course each time I focus on my daily list, it reinforces my commitment to my goals.
Each morning I address my list and reflect on what I will choose to focus on for the day. Inherently, I see opportunity and the potential for gratitude rises by habitually orienting or mindset toward what I want. This focus somehow protects me from feeling overwhelmed. Maybe the act of choice confers a feeling of control, or maybe it filters out unwanted experience. Probably both.
Daily re-commitment and focus on what is most important each day help us to experience each day as a gift. The 365 Commitment makes things better.
It’s a new day!
Ben Wagner (144)
Member The 365 Commitment
