Do This First, Before Creating Your Vision Board

Before you do anything else on the first day of this year, do this first. This new year let’s all complete the “14 things I like about me gratitude sheet” and show appreciation and gratitude to ourselves. Download your copy of the gratitude sheet below.

In the world where social media has icons for like and love, with love given the greater ability because of the emotions it brings and its universal familiarity all over the world. So what do you like about you and how can this help your awareness and appreciation journey in the new year. When this sheet idea came to me in November, it was regarding the fact that the little things we like about ourselves are the things we end up loving about us in the end.

According to the oxford dictionary, as a noun: like is the things one likes or prefers. Oxford also shows us like is an action word, a verb defining like as a thing you find agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/like

Here’s a romance story example: Boy meets girl in the movie theatre, the boy makes eye contact with the girl and they both live happily ever after. We shouldn’t love our life partner on our first date (the movies would have us believe this), we should rather like them or not like them (and I think just enough) to know if the date will ever become a relationship. According to the oxford dictionary, as a noun, love is an intense feeling of deep affection and like is the things one likes or prefers. Oxford also shows us like is an action word, a verb: defining like a thing you find agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory.

Gratefulness. Defined on Wikipedia, gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’, is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, towards the giver of such gifts.

Being grateful for ourselves is one of the – things – that we need to turn into a habit.

Things like being grateful for our loved ones; family, friends, our job, our health, our home, our car are pretty doable. Gratitude and appreciation for others come easy but it’s when we have to do the same for ourselves it feels like hard work. Being grateful for ourselves is one of the – things – that we need to turn into a habit.

I feel like in all that we do when we are grateful for others we forget that we can be grateful and appreciate ourselves too, for being US, you know, liking our unique self with our unique quality or qualities. I don’t mean liking ourselves in the way where you spend money or buy more things to give a green light to liking ourselves but rather taking the time to sit down, reflect and acknowledge what we like about us. And that can look like daily affirmations, personal care, self-care. And sometimes it can even look like something deeper like developing a sense of self, self-esteem, self-worth, figuring out our likes and our dislikes or even dreaming or creating a vision of the future. All these leading back to the first thing you should do this year, writing down 14 things you like about you.

Change watch: Once you complete the page put it in an area of your home where you can see it daily.

Gloria

Now that you’re ready to create your vision board for this new year, check out the link below and download the sheets you need to create your vision board at home.

Once again welcome to the new year!