At first, I wrote about experiences within the day that provoked some thought rabbit hole that just had to be written down or mindless chatter about the day which is still fun to write sometimes.

To be consistent with this habit and also keep it interesting, I decided to try writing according to “prompts”. This has been somewhat difficult because I’m the type that only writes when I get inspired, which happens more times than I remember to put the words in ink.

So in documenting my days I also better my writing, which is the reason I decided to keep a journal.

Today’s prompt is Growth. It came to me while I was doing the dishes. Self-reflection seldom happens for me during showers and while doing the dishes lol.

I’d just come down from taking cute pictures of some flower ornament that lights up with my baby cousin. children and things that light up. best friends. then remembered a snap memory that I had seen earlier in the day from 2 years ago. She could barely sit upright! Now she talks and makes peace signs in pictures.

It was a sweet reminder that growth, change, and progress happen every day whether you’re aware of it or not. You just gotta keep going to keep growing.

https://www.art.com/products/p53762321947-sa-i11544996/cynthia-decker-personal-growth.htm

Sometimes you feel stuck like you can’t pull your foot out of a six-inch deep puddle you seem to have gotten it into. That may be true in some aspects of your life. But then comes gratitude.

Gratitude for every other thing that brings you joy, little as it may seem, great as it may be. You have to count your blessings, be patient, and work at working out the things that steal your joy.

In learning to work things out you fail and fall but pick yourself back up, eventually, you get it right.

Trial and error, finding the bugs and squashing them.

“hey, it works!” Growth.

http://hifructose.com/2015/12/23/justin-bower-debuts-an-explosive-new-portrait-series-in-thresholds/

Like finding and fixing the puzzle that is you.

This all sounds like some motivational bs and yea maybe it is but who doesn’t need some motivation?

I know I do.

So this is for me. For you.

From me to you.

Now, this all reminds me of this tweet that I saw a while back.

You gotta work to grow, either way, growth happens so you gotta be thankful and let that spur you to grow some more.