Tag: Life

Celebrating 2023: A Month of Gratitude – Day 7

I passed my exams!!! I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am to have achieved this! I needed to complete just 2 more subjects this year in order to graduate with my BA Honours in Psychology. I earned a distinction for one and scraped through by the skin of my teeth with the other but I will take it! A pass is a pass!

I also what to say thank you to all who have congratulated me and especially to my friend, Gayle, who went out with me to have a coffee to celebrate. Alcohol is not really my thing anymore but coffee is definitely life!

I am grateful for the privilege of being able to study a little later than most. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a bit of a late bloomer. My curiosity around why we do what we do only became apparent to me when I joined the R&D team. My desire to learn about and understand psychological principles only became apparent to me 10 years ago. I would really love to spend the rest of my days doing tons of academic research especially around the psychology of consumerism. I suspect there is a lot to uncover as well as the mind, body and spirit connection. Watch this space…

Image: Canva

Celebrating 2023: A month of gratitude – day 6

Hello again. Welcome back. Can you belief that it is 18 days to Christmas! I need to get my Christmas tree up! Have you put yours up yet?

Today I am grateful for my newfound confidence. I have spent my whole life second guessing myself and not believing that I was capable of great things. Clearly God had enough of it because He has sent me people over the past year and a bit who have helped understand that:

  • No-one is perfect
  • Perfection is over-rated
  • It’s ok to make mistakes
  • I belong in rooms and spaces I find myself in.
  • I am worthy of all the good things God has in store for me. I have been limiting Him.

A bit late to figure this out but rather late than never. I am very grateful that I have.

Image: Canva

Celebrating 2023: A Month of Gratitude – Day 3

Abundance is a mindset that attracts everything you need and desire to you. This is a lesson that I am very grateful to have learned this year.

2023 has been a year of abundance. I would like to believe that it is because I made a greater effort to nip the scarcity mindset I have had all my life and started believing that I will always have more than enough and that I deserve, and am worthy of, the best of everything I desire.

I only realised last year that I had never believe this about myself. It is not easy to change such a long held belief but it is not impossible either and I have only just begun. Imagine what lies before me!

This year, I was finally appointed to the role that I have wanted for years! I am so thrilled and very grateful. I won a competition through my bank that basically covered my petrol bill for the second half of the year. How’s that for the Universe having my back! I received the biggest bonus I have ever received this year! I believe that this was God ensuring that I would make through this year with a lot less financial stress than I have been experiencing.

These are just a few examples of all the unexpected financial help I have received this year. I believe that because I believed that I would have more than enough, I opened the door for God/Universe to deliver to that belief. May I never forget this awesome lesson that I learned this year. Thank you God!

Image: Canva