Trust begins at home
Sunday Blog
This weekend I had the joy and horror of running an event in my neighbourhood. You may know the saying - event planning is easy, just like riding a bike. Only the bike’s on fire, you’re on fire…
It went really well I’m pleased to say but caused more than its fair share of middle of the night anxiety.
Which brings me to my Sunday blog.
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday wherever you are.
Sunday Blog 161 - 1st December 2024
Being a constant consumer of self-improvement, I’m always looking outside myself for advice. I am aware of the irony of writing a Sunday Blog about trust beginning with me. But isn’t self-development is an endless round of remembering, then forgetting, then remembering? A regular podcast reminder of the importance of connecting in with my own values and living them is a must for me.
This week I listened to Ep. 497 of Rangan Chatterjee’s Live Better, Feel More, and I was washed through with the moment of remembering what I’d forgotten. The importance of building trust in yourself.
I am blessed to be (blissfully) unaware of feelings of anxiety or fear during the day. Nothing especially enlightened about that, I think it is just a neuro-quirk. It’s during my middle of the night wakefulness that I can often access that spot of depression, the twist of unease. And it is almost always the pressure of undone things. Things I said I would do, and haven’t.
Rangan talked about his three questions each morning and I paraphrase slightly: 1. What’s one thing I’m grateful for? 2. What’s the most important thing I need to do today? 3. What quality do I want to bring to the world today? And his three questions at night: 1. What went well today? 2. What did I do for someone else today? 3. What can I do differently tomorrow?
The simple act of deciding the one most important thing I need to do today, and reckoning with whether I did it, is building and re-building trust in myself.
Now the big question is, do I buy his beautiful journal just for the 3 questions each day, or do I squeeze them into my regular diary?
In the end, isn’t all self-improvement about justifying stationery purchases?