Day 15 of 30 Days of Bravery
👁 INTENTION
Today, let's tap into our inner resources to harness creativity, determination, and unstoppable drive towards our goals.
Imagine tapping into an endless well of creativity, determination, and drive. Today, we dive deep within ourselves to unlock these hidden treasures, turning obstacles into stepping stones. It's about seeing beyond the immediate, recognizing our innate potential, and leveraging what we have to move mountains. With each challenge faced, we're not just finding solutions; we're also building a more resilient, creative, and unstoppable version of ourselves. Let's embark on this journey of self-discovery and mastery, turning our inner resources into outer achievements.
💡 INSPIRED POEM
Let us delve into our inner depths,
to unlock the treasures that we possess.
For creativity, determination and strength,
Are within us, waiting at arm's length.
Let us not dwell on what we do not possess.
Instead, focus on what we can do with what's left.
Our resourcefulness lies in recognizing our needs,
and in the courageous acts that water those seeds.
💬 QUOTE
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
– Ernest Hemingway, a Nobel Prize-winning author, was renowned for his concise and understated style, reflecting his belief in the power of resilience and making the most of available resources.
📿 MANTRA
Power over emotions, is power to shape DESTINY.
This mantra reminds us that our ability to manage our emotions directly influences our capacity to mold our future. When we understand and regulate our emotional responses, we unlock the power to pursue our destiny with intention and clarity. Reflect on moments when your emotions led the way. How did it affect your decisions? How can mastering your emotions now pave the path to the destiny you desire? Let this mantra inspire you to cultivate emotional intelligence, a key to unlocking your true potential.
📿 MEDITATION
In today's 10-minute guided meditation, Jodi guides us into connecting to our inner resources so that we can rebalance the nervous system and gain clarity into inspired action toward our brave goals.
✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTS
Reflect on how you can harness your inner resources to overcome challenges:
- What strengths have you not fully utilized yet?
- Recall a situation where being resourceful turned things around. What did you learn?
- Envision a goal. What creative steps can you take towards it using existing resources?
🙏 MICRO ACT OF BRAVERY
First, enjoy watching how Derek Sivers shares how resourcefulness is all about shifting from a victim mentality to a proactive mentality.
Then, let's make a point to put this resourceful wisdom into action by taking extreme ownership over something in our life we want to shift.
📣 AFFIRMATION
- I am a naturally resourceful person, capable of finding solutions to any challenge that comes my way.
- Every obstacle presents an opportunity for me to tap into my resourcefulness and find a creative solution.
- I trust in my ability to make the most out of any situation, no matter how challenging it may seem.
- My resourcefulness is not limited by my circumstances, but rather fueled by my determination to succeed.
- I am grateful for the abundance of resources available to me, but I know that my true power lies in my own innate resourcefulness.
🙌 KUDOS
Congratulations on exploring your inner resources today! You've taken meaningful steps towards harnessing your creativity and determination. Keep nurturing this intention, and watch as your resourcefulness transforms challenges into opportunities.
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What's one creative solution you've found to a recent challenge?
Share your stories of resourcefulness in the comments. Your journey inspires us all! Let's celebrate our collective ingenuity and support each other in tapping into our unlimited inner resources.
I realized this the last time I did this challenge, so I was able to address them ahead of time for this one. I needed more time to practice running, to work out with walking, drills, etc., and the work schedule I have now is not conducive; so I decided to wake up at 5 am everyday (even on rest days/days I don’t need to). That way I always have time to workout and since I’m waking up at the same time everyday, it won’t be hard to get enough sleep to have the energy to workout and work.
I need a good support system, so I am currently still looking for a running group I can run with regularly. I can walk, do workout drills, etc. on my won. In addition, I have opened up to close friends and co-workers and they have become an additional support system for me, even if they don’t run themselves.
I utilized determination to find these solutions because I really want to accomplish this. I recognize that I will not be perfect about how I go about accomplishing this goal. But I am pro-active and I will try my best to work with what I have.
My creative mind/brain is the greatest help in my moving into brave endeavours. The emotions that match and drive me forward are happiness, love, determination, curiosity and and my greatest emotional help creativity!
The resources I need are positive experiences, to show myself I can face FEAR, and not back down!
I need to be more thick-skinned, and now be so sensitive.
My resource would be people and nature. When I’m out in nature or when I’m with good people, feeling connected, I thrive. My biggest hurdle lately has been my anxiety and depression. It’s flared from this thing in me that wants to be successful (which isn’t a bad thing), but I obsess over it. I find myself comparing and envying others. I view my emotional self as a nuisance rather than one of the best resources and character traits I have. I don’t know how to set my goal and then let it be. I live in the destination rather than the journey, and my mind is always worried about the future that I miss the beauty of the present. My goal is to meditate more and begin loving who I am, which includes the bouts of depression and regular anxiety.
People and being out there and doing /saying things that I don’t because of fear of what others would think. My emotions, just being me and not showing fear because of what people might think. loving everyone and myself. being honest to myself and showing my work because I am proud of it not because I want approval from others to make me feel better.
I am really so lucky because, as a professor, I get two months off for the summer, so I have time. Time is such an important resource. I also have money, technology, and training. So I have all the resources I need to find what I want. My problem is more the emotions, there seems to be some kind of emotional block that stops me from using these resources to their full potential. I find a great resource and then I have a sort of negative gut reaction to it. For example I just downloaded a 31 writing prompt package with every intention of using it, but I read the first prompt and immediately closed the package. I’m not sure why. A rejection of sorts. It was almost fear. Oh my god I can’t do this! I can’t commit to this. Do I have commitment issues when it comes to writing? I know that I begin a lot of stories and never see them through to the end. I am excited at the beginning and then peter out half way through. Recently I wrote a poem that took several weeks of work and I did complete that, but only because it had a deadline for submission. I do find I work better to hard deadlines with an attending audience. It is as if I can commit only if it is for someone else, but not for myself. I spoke to my mother the other day about her art and why she does art and she replied that one could only do art for oneself. That trying to do art for someone other than oneself would be a waste of time. She is working on a series of 21 paintings and I asked her what she would do with them when she finished them. She said she would put them in storage. That the important thing was that she had completed them. I wonder what technique I can use that will either allow me to do my art for myself and let that be motivation enough, or find a way to do my art with a deadline. Perhaps if I write to publish? To submit my work on a publishing deadline? I am going to think about this problem.
A resource I badly need, just as much if not more so than money, is a good support system. People who will listen people who will be honest but not super judgmental and critical would really help reinforce the love I feel for myself and my body and add to the much needed confidence I need to truly wear what I want. The emotions I can elicit is honesty (in how I feel about myself and the reasons who I hesitate to grow), love (for my body and so that I can understand my worth as a person who deserves to feel good about themselves) and determination (to open myself up to people, to communicate this challenge and my honest feelings about life to friends, which can also help make new friends and garner a bigger support system).
One resource I have been using is the prompt to sink my attention down. From my head to my belly. It helps me relax. Re-center. Be present. From there I usually find a sense of kindness for myself.
Money
Money is needed to pay more bills and to stay out of litigation. I don’t have it and pray everyday. I’m in school trying to make it and feel like once I graduate in 6-8 months I’ll be hopefully able to get one job that helps me better pay. I’m also hungry and barely making rent.i could also use more freinds & faith that if God brought me to it, then he will see me through it… I also need better organization and executive functioning skills. I also really need to have someone help me get a job that fits my current schedule anti try to be positive in the face of adversity
My resources that I would need is more money and more time. Money to keep my family going and time to make more money and time to actually spend with my family! The emotions I would need to elicit would be creativity and love and determination. I would need to be creative to find ways to make the money while still being able to care for my family.(I am a single parent doing it all on my own) I already have the live for my kids to keep me determined to be creative to be resourceful to do what I need to do.