Advice from the Trenches: When you see the beauty and the gifts around you, the world looks brighter.
Single parenting and co-parenting are experiences that naturally come with their own unique set of successes and challenges. Few things can grow you into an adult like learning to co-parent and committing to raising up good humans. Learning to count your successes, practicing being in the now (rather than yesterday or tomorrow), seeing the small miracles and acknowledging the big ones all help you to see that all of Creation is on your side.
This week’s challenge is to “See the Beauty” and then share it.
The great thing about beauty is that it is a gift that multiplies upon itself. Often times, it is free to give and free to experience as it simply is. It can be a sensory experience or something simply witnessed. It also feeds the world in a way that nothing else quite can — and really no one else can do it quite like you. It also dominos into the rest of your day and into the people that you encounter. Remember that a good mood, vision and insight is contagious.
So let’s get after it!
Need some tips on how to See the Beauty?
See Your Beauty, and witness it for what it is.
Find some thing to appreciate in 10 people.
Smile.
Tell the good stories.
Grant yourself the pleasure of a bit of extra self-care.
Share the good.
Lift someone else up.
Give your kids a compliment.
Cheer some one on.
Take a selfie.
Get Your Spiritual Workout in.
Eat a pretty meal with plenty of color and seasonal flavor.
Notice the flowers, the grass, the sun and the natural beauty around you.
Honor your Truths.
Hug your people.
Get dressed up for no reason at all.
Celebrate your Victories.
Notice the gifts of every day.
Grant Forgiveness.
Pay It Forward.
Volunteer for an hour to a cause that makes your heart smile.
Cheers to a great week,
Teia
