December 7, 2020 • Life
A list of good things
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for me. 🥲
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The darker days and colder weather probably isn’t helping along with big life changes, so I wanted to write a list of things that are just… good things. Things that sometimes I forget about in my moment of anxiety or when I’m feeling sad.
Whilst I was writing this, I felt a lot better remembering that although there seems to be a lot of bad days especially this year, there’s also a hell lot of great things. Note: this list is in no particular order.
- Living in an apartment where I’ve made the space feel like home
- Exercising and getting the endorphin rush afterwards
- Progressing in my strength with things like pull-ups and push-ups
- The sun when it comes in leaks into my apartment. Sometimes when I close my eyes it feels like summer.
- My plants
- Closing my activity rings
- Cooking myself and my partner good food
- Shopping less
- Making my favourite shake with banana, blueberries, greek yoghurt and protein powder
- Long walks on weekends
- Being away from screens
- Having a heart-to-heart with my partner
- Talking in the dark in bed before sleeping
- Making a meal for my partner and seeing his face light up
- Re-connecting broken relationships
- Talking on the phone with my family for hours
- Looking for Christmas presents
- Writing to reflect
- Writing with gratitude
- Telling people you care about that you care about them
- Enjoying my favourite shows and movies
- Watching the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon and laughing at all the jokes
- Playing games for fun
- Playing games with my sister
- Learning something new every day
- Structured learning
- When something reminds someone of you and tells you about it
- Hot chocolate and biscuits
- Cleaning, decluttering and tidying up
- Up-cycling items
- Texting friends
- Yoga practice
- Realising that you have more than enough and feeling content
- Caring colleagues
- Successfully setting boundaries with work. Taking breaks without guilt.
- My “at-home” spa days
- Following a recipe well
- Hugs
- Thanking someone for everything that they’ve done for you (without them realising it per se)
- Asking for recommendations, recieving kind words
- Standing my own ground for my choice
- Being told that you bright up a room
- Being told that you have an unknown superpower: “the Pauline thing that you do”
- Sharing thoughts/ideas with others at virtual events
- Breathing
- Blue skies (even though it’s cold)
- Wearing out all my favourite comfortable clothes
- Helping others with work/life
- Connecting with communities
- Feeling hydrated
- Ugly crying it all out when you need to
- Realising that imposter syndrome ain’t shit, but you are the shit.
- Reminiscing on the best memories
- Someone recommending something to you, giving it a go yourself and loving it
- Singing even though you can’t sing
- Dancing even though you can’t dance
- Connecting with new people even though it’s all virtual
- Laughing at something so much it hurts
- Inside jokes
- Not scrolling too much on social media
- Putting the heating on
- Wearing comfy socks
- Light at the end of the tunnel — a vaccine!
- The people I care about are safe and healthy
That’s my good things list right now. Is there anything that you would add? 💜
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