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31 Keepsakes continue with Keepsake #5: Be Expectant…of good and wonder!

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Hello & Huggabugga.

Thank you for being here and gathering to open up the 5th Keepsake…

I just get all little girl when we’re coming together to do this. I really do. πŸ™‚

I feel like we’re holding hands, huddling and celebrating with one big hug and sharing enough warm fuzzies to go around the globe. πŸ™‚

Thank you oodles for being here. Truly.

I wanna dive in and rip off the wrapping paper of this keepsake and just let you enjoy it all night and season and year long.

* If this is your first visit, hugs for being here.

You can open your very own of the first 4 Keepsakes too! Scootch to the bottom of this post where all the linkies are for the keepsakes we’ve already opened. πŸ™‚

Before we open the 5th Keepsake, lemme whisper something:

Personal Keepsakes Designed Just For You:

This is a pitch to hear back from you regarding 2 things:

1. What would give you a hug in your heart? This one’s a big deal. If there’s something weighing heavy on your mind, or something that you would soo value feeling mommied about over the rest of the month, please send it to me in the comments or via email.

Why? We have 5 more days and 5 more ways to mommy ourselves (remember, the first set of 10 Keepsakes have that intention: things that help us ‘mommy our hearts’).

And even though I have a buncha yums that help mommy me that I’d planned to wrap up and give to you over the next 5 days,Β  I would adore being certain I design the next keepsakes just for you. So if there’s a pressing need tugging at your heart (and no need is too great), please send me an email: tre at thought by thought dot net and I promise to design one of the next five keepsakes to speak directly to that need.

2. Has one of the 4 Keepsakes already meant something to you? Have you used it and felt “woweee, that really helped!”? If so, would adore hearing that feedback too. Again, email me at tre at thought by thought dot net.

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Alrighty, time for the 5th KeepsakeπŸ™‚

Let’s create our setting:

First, ready our space by finding a cozy nook wherever it is, just you there though, with your lappy or your mobile or however you read this post.

Mine? is a lit candle, a highchair for grownups (‘barstool just kinda sounds too blah’), my kitchen’s bar counter top, and my laptop.

Next, ready our thoughts by taking a deep breath and tryin’ to still whatever’s murmuring and blabbing on and on. Just feel calm, get still, be.

Hint: sometimes? I go outside and peek up at the stars. Yes it’s freezing out there but, whenever I stare up at that wonder? All murmuring ceases in my thoughts. πŸ˜‰

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Let’s open the 5th Keepsake: Be Expectant of Good

Meaning and visuals

To be expectant…hmmm. I love how that sounds. There’s a childlikeness to it, a simplicity to it.

To expect means to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of

To expect good then means to look forward to good happening, to regard good as ‘likely to happen’…to anticipate it.

Whee!:)

Visual: the bubbles (above) just captures this to me….or the just before a snowfall, or the just before anything awesome is about to happen…

Question: what if we treated the right now moment the same way??? πŸ™‚

Why I’m choosing this keepsake:

Expecting good helps me mommy my moments because it nudges me to steer thought to stay in the now.

Expecting good helps me mommy my moments because it encourages me:

  • to anticipate the good
  • to look for the good
  • to see the good
  • to defend the good — with anyone, with each situation, with all my doings and tooings and fro-ings.

Expecting good helps me stand for the simple fact that there is always good and often we just need to see it, defend it, claim it, expect it.

How we can use this keepsake:

Expecting good is Tinkerbell, not Eeyore. πŸ˜‰

Expecting good takes the right now and feels loved, innocent, free.

Expecting good doesn’t label ourselves, blame ourselves, attack ourselves, abuse ourselves, condemn ourselves.

Expecting good knows the right now is open with possibility to do better, to be better, to love more fully, to loosen our rigidity, to let go of fears, to let go of how we’ve always done something, to let go of how we’ve always treated ourselves, to stop seeing the bad, and to start right now, this moment, seeing the good.

What to be mindful of:

In the process of expecting good, the inner Scrooge will emerge.

This inner Scrooge will attack your efforts, call your efforts lame, tell you you’re crazy, that it’s just not practical to expect good or to try to change your ways.

The inner Scrooge will adore convincing you to stay stuck. The inner Scrooge will adore telling you that there’s no point to expecting good. The inner Scrooge will convince you that you’ve always been this way and there’s no way you’ll be able to change.

The inner Scrooge will convince you you’re not worthy of good, let alone of loving yourself.

The inner Scrooge lies.

Expecting good silences the inner Scrooge.

How we can begin tonight, right here, right now and take this keepsake with us:

While I can’t give you a thingy of bubbles to start blowing right now, I can hug your heart and tell you that you are about goodness and love this moment. And while I can’t make you start loving yourself, I can share with you that you own the right now. And you can decide however it is that you want to start practicing expecting good.

I can nudge you that one of the simplest ways to do it is to feel so grateful that the right now is yours to choose how you’re going to steer your thoughts. And I can offer that if you give yourself this keepsake of expecting good right this moment, some kinda wonderful feeling of warmth will fill your heart. Don’t wait til tomorrow morning to use this keepsake.

It’s yours this moment.

Use it.

Expect good. πŸ™‚ It’s all around us. It’s what we’re about. It’s what is true for the right now and always. It begins in our hearts and shapes what and how we see ourselves and what and how we see others.

So friend, here’s me expecting good that you will feel loved tonight. πŸ™‚

Thank you for being here and sharing these moments.

Til the 6th Keepsake, big warm wonders~ of goodness ~to you πŸ™‚

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* WELCOME NEW READERS TO #31 KEEPSAKES πŸ™‚

All we’ve opened is right here waiting for you too!!!! πŸ™‚

These keepsakes have a background story, the why for why I am offering them.

You can read about that here: Why the 31 Keepsakes?

If we were in a room, picture a big wonderfully bountiful trunk housing a bounty of overflowing keepsakes, plenty to go around and not stuck in some corner far from view but right in the center of a gathering circle. πŸ™‚ Forgive me for dropping this list here ….not at all does it mean you aren’t valued equally or you’re an after thought. It’s the nature of the techie world. I want folks who are returning to be able to dive right in. And that will be you tomorrow when you return. πŸ™‚ For now, here’s the yum we’ve shared and hope it means something for you too! πŸ˜‰ Big hugs.

Start here Keepsake #1: Be Gentle

then go here: Keepsake #2: Be Grounded

then go here: Keepsake #3: Be Comfort

and for to open the most recent, go here: Keepsake #4: Be in ~ charge

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{ 6 comments… add one }
  • Tresha Thorsen December 6, 2010, 4:12 am

    hi hi hi hi hi. thanks so much for takin a mo to outpour from the heart. and what an outpour. i get it soo totally much. the sitting around worrying ‘what if’ stuff. soo glad that steering thought to the bounty of good of right now helped free you:) (the whole point). huggin you hugely:)

  • Tresha Thorsen December 6, 2010, 4:03 am

    hi hi hi hi hi. thanks so much for takin a mo to outpour from the heart. and what an outpour. i get it soo totally much. the sitting around worrying ‘what if’ stuff. soo glad that steering thought to the bounty of good of right now helped free you:) (the whole point). huggin you hugely:)

  • Traci McCush December 6, 2010, 3:49 am

    I was feeling a little overwhelmed today and could only see the “what-it’s” about a current project. Your amazing post has reminded me to “expect good”. Rather than sitting and worrying about all the “what if this happens” I need to expect the absolute best and see it with this project. Expect the good.
    Your post really changed my day.
    Thank you.

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