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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Dear Kate,
Here I am, in a new state, trying to create a new life for myself. Perhaps it is the life I've been meant to live all along, and it's taken me until now to get here.
All the self-help books I've read up to this point have had something to do with focusing on myself, learning how to be true to myself, making hard choices that feel right on some level, listening to my intuition, or learning to hear what the heck intuition feels like. It seems that, over time, one really does get the hang of comprehending these things. I'm not saying I've mastered them, but I'm finding more and more that each of the aforementioned is becoming that much easier. I think the more I realize what it is that makes me truly happy, the more I understand what I'm all about. Me. Not someone else's idea of me. Not who my parents or anyone else expects me to be. The concept sounds well and good, but I think I'm finding that the more I realize what really means most to me, the easier it becomes to be happy despite circumstances that surround me. It's hard to explain, despite the efforts of many authors that expound upon the subject.
I'm in the mood for a project that I think I can see through. For the month of September, I'm going to update a single page in my journal here (and I'd love to welcome other journalers to join me). The list-style entry will include one thing--however small--that I've done for the day that brings me joy. It will be something I do, not anything that someone else does for me. I'm sort of interested in seeing what (more) I can learn about myself, if anything, from this list, not to mention the fact that doing a little something for myself each day has to be good for the soul. It's my thinking that such a list will help me be truer to myself, because it will be right there, in black and white, so to speak, what makes me happy. Going forward, I should have no reason to think anything different.
Onward to The Joy Project, September 2002.
Quote Of The Day:
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." --John Andrew Holmes
Worth Noting:
That house I'm buying? I locked my mortgage rate in at 6.125%.
In The Background:
"Last Worthless Evening"
--Don Henley
