Our thoughts generate our feelings. Happy, sad, excited, angry, calm, love, anxious, and on and on. It is never the circumstances in our life that cause our feelings, it is our thoughts about our circumstances.

Daily journaling has changed my life in the most amazing way.

Do you have negative thought patterns?

If you have trained your mind to believe thought patterns that don’t serve you, they end up becoming a belief system. .

What if I married him? Her? What if I never gained weight? What if I got a different degree? Or never moved? What if I stayed at that job? What if I was still with that person? What if we never had that fight? What if I would have said this?

Have you picked up and left all you were familiar with... family, friends, job, comforts of home?

What do you tell yourself about yourself? What do you say when you look at yourself in the mirror? Are you kind?

Do you struggle with Anxiety?

I think everyone does, in some form or another, at different times in our lives. It’s a part of the human experience. It’s just a feeling, a vibration in your body.

Do you struggle with wanting and trying to change people in your life? I know I do.

Are you afraid to get uncomfortable? Most of us don’t ever want to feel uncomfortable.

(I wrote this about two months after my wedding and a week after I moved to Holland to be with my new husband, he is Dutch.)