This week of the 52 week gratitude challenge is about showing gratitude towards a personality traits. I also want to talk about personal values. I recently did a Life Reset Week where I re-examine pretty much my whole life and now working towards rebuilding. If you read, week 3 of this gratitude challenge you would know I needed it.
These traits are in no particular order:
- Adventurous – This was suppose to be the year of travel and adventure. My thought process was to find myself through traveling.
- Caring/ Kind –
- Loyal – I am fiercely loyal. I may not talk or call my friends a lot but they know they can always count on me. I am very much a ride or die friend. I don’t need to know where we are going or what we are doing.
- Independent – This is a trait that I am working towards.
- Authentic – I feel like for the most part I am authentic. In times of difficulty or stress, I tent to retreat and become hardened. I want to be authentic all the time. Kindness is often looked at as a weakness.
- Minimalistic – The end goal is to be able to live my car, an RV, or slide in truck camper.
- Spiritual – In the beginning of this challenge, I wanted it to be spiritual in terms of my biblical. Over the year, I have learned that spiritual is much more than that. By being open minded in this term, I have learned I am more spiritual than I thought.
- Hardworking – I don’t know why I feel this way, but I feel like I have always had to work harder than anyone else. It’s probably because I have always been interested in fields that have always been male dominated. I love writing
- Creative – I have always been super creative. I feel like I see things in a different way than others sometimes.
- Organized – I am so organized sometimes it is crazy. My favorite story about being organized is in Pheonix I was in the Junior League. Each year they have this massive sale at the fairgrounds. Each member is supposed to donate $200 worth of stuff. They had a sheet that showed what everything was priced. I had everything organized in a spreadsheet, separated by department with the breakdown. Then I had it organized in my car in the same layout so I can easily find and take it out. One of the ladies said this is a new level of organization. I thought it was just simple.
- Growth – This year was about growing mentally.
My Values
During my life reset weekend, I worked on my values. I did this last year, and it really helped on staying focused on my goals.
- Adventurous – I love to travel and explore.
- Decisive – I am not the best at being decisive right now, BUT it is something that I want to work towards in the upcoming year.
- Confident – Confidence is a tricky one. I am confident in some situations. The goal is to work on being confident in expressing what I need and want from others.
- Growth – Growing and learning is an important trait for me. I want to be constantly be growing and learning. We can learn from every situation.
- Balanced – My definition of balance is being able to do everything I want without having to compromise or regret.
- Creative – Creative is something that has become more important to me over the past few years. My creativity is crocheting, writing and most recently painting.
- Disciplined – This is a trait that I am working towards. I want to be more disciplined in my life with my habits and routine.
- Loyal – I am extremely loyal. This is not something I say boastfully, but something several people have said to me over the years. I never really thought about it being loyal, but just being a good person.
- Strong – This is just not physically, but mentally and spiritually. I want to strong mentally and not second guess or doubt myself as much.
- Intentional – I want to be more intentional with my time.
Gratitude Update
Gratitude is still a word that gives me anxiety. As I am writing this, my chest is tight and breathing is kinda difficult. I don’t remember where exactly I read it, but showing gratitude start with I get FILL IN THE BLANK. This will be easier to come up with a list of things you are grateful for instead of writing on a blank piece of paper. When I read this, it made things so much easier. I hope this tip makes it easier for you as well.
I also want to give credit where I got this idea and a lot of my prompts. Esther and Jacob from the Local Adventurer.
Other Gratitude Posts
- 52 Weeks of Gratitude – The Beginning
- Something I Created
