Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for a PDF version and other notes.
If you’re new to Daily Prompts, you may want to start at the beginning of the series here.
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Day 20
Gratitude: (the free PDF below features lined entries for your journal practice)
Vision: (the free PDF below features lined entries for your journal practice)
I try to structure my Affirmations to describe only the things that are in my direct control.
This is probably one departure from the woo-woo guru who teaches Affirmations as magic. I’m not suggesting that daily Affirmations cause external forces to bring you your desires. I look at Affirmations, and all of The Lyceum Method, as a set of tools for personal development. They are instruments of change that radiate from the inside out. It’s not about what’s “out there”. It’s about what’s in you.
A personal example:
I don’t write Affirmations such as, “It’s so awesome to have 1,000 members in The Lyceum Community!”
Although I would love to see that happen, I don’t have direct control over this number. It requires the consent and actions of at least 1,000 other people! Instead, I focus on the traits and habits that I want to see in myself. These traits and habits could lead to the desired result of 1,000 Lyceum Community members, but that’s not what I’m focusing on at all.
Instead, I might write something like; “I feel so proud to be such a prolific artist and author!”
I don’t have direct control over how my content is received, but I do have complete control over how much I practice writing and making art. For decades I considered myself an artist, but would rarely draw or write. My blogging over the past 15 years has been horribly inconsistent. But when I began a daily practice of feeling pride for being such a prolific writer, I began to write more.
It just gets uncomfortable after a while. Writing out an affirmation and really feeling it as presently true makes it really uncomfortable to act in any other way. Telling myself every morning how proud I feel to write so much makes it really easy to go to my keyboard after the journal and start writing.
Because I believe I’m a prolific writer, I am.
I think. Therefore, I am.
Affirmations: (the free PDF below features lined entries for your journal practice)
Daily: (The pdf version below contains three lined pages for your daily journal)
NOTE:
The above is an excerpt from the upcoming The Lyceum Course Journal. We will be releasing it here for free as a Daily Prompt blog post. If you would like a physical copy, we will link to it here once it is released.
Suggested Use:
I realize a daily journal prompt on a blog is a little weird. This is how I would suggest using it: Open your favorite note-taking software such as Evernote, copy and paste this post into it, and write your daily entries there.
OR
Download a PDF version of this post here. Feel free to print it out, or access it through a PDF editor where you can type in your daily entry.
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