23-308 Agreements #7

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Today’s Mandala Message: Write it Down

This week I’m working through Principle #54 “Keep Your Agreements”. I set my intention today to ponder writing down my agreements…especially the ones to myself. From LeadingWithHonor.com they offer some tips on being better with keeping your promises (aka agreements). Tip #4 got my attention the most: “Write Commitments Down Immediately. Assign them a realistic completion date on your to- do list or calendar.“

I tend to _NOT_ write them down especially the ones to myself. I don’t seem to make them as important as my agreements to others. I’m embarrassed to say that currently I have about 50 online courses that I have paid for and have yet to complete…or worse…I haven’t even started. A while back on my ipad I documented all these classes, printed the list, and put them in a folder. I’m not sure I could tell you where that folder is right now. I need a better system which also needs to include assigning a completion date on a calendar. More importantly I need to allow myself to honor myself and the commitments I make to myself.

I find I do much better with hand-written lists that I can readily see, versus hidden in a digital or manila folder. So tomorrow I plan to itemize all these classes and put them on a physical calendar. I find I have a greater sense of things if I can see it in analog form and in plain view.

A good mindfulness practice would be to ponder how honoring your agreements to yourself is a form or honoring and respecting yourself.

So how about you? Are you more likely to follow through on a commitment to yourself if you’ve written it down? Do you ever give yourself a completion date? Do you believe that honoring your commitments to yourself is a form of honoring yourself?

“Honoring yourself
is not selfish,
it’s vital.”

— Elaina Marie

Blessings,

Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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My Mission: connecting with our Inner Light in delightful, inspiring ways For me, creating mandalas is more than just coloring pretty patterns in a circle. I do it because my spiritual evolution and creativity require it of me. My mandala designs come about within an active meditative state, connected with my higher self, my spiritual guides and nature spirits. Together, we bring into form, mandala art the allows me to re-connect with my own inner peace and joy, letting me explore and expand my own creative spirit to however far and in whatever direction I want to take it. As part of my own spiritual journey, I encourage, and hopefully inspire, others to explore their own creativity, to help them re-connect with their own inner peace and joy. As a means to that end, I make all of my mandalas available for people to color. Why should I have all the fun?

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