Writing a week of blessings was great--it helped me to think about where I want to be and what I want to be doing in a few months, as I start my new life. It also confirmed for me that my "list" isn't about things or about people, but rather about feelings and experiences.
As a study in contrast, I've been trying to journal each night since last Thursday on the "negatives" of each day, looking for additional focus on what I value and what I need to let go of. (Until I reached this age, I was never so worried about making the wrong career/life choices!) I am encountering a LOT of resistance to this exercise--but only because focusing on joy brings so much more joy, while focusing on negativity makes me feel much more of that! I HATE how I feel in the evening when I try to capture that negativity--it feels so much better to simply let it go.
THAT, for me, was a really important illustration of a lesson I SHOULD know but don't always heed! My new strategy: when I am feeling negativity, I'm trying to stop in that moment, for long enough to ask myself if this is something that *I* have any control over. If yes, then I consider how I want to handle it in the moment and how I can prevent it from happening in the future. If no, then I try to ride it out, all the while thinking of those joys I'm going to journal about in the evening!