How?
This week we focus on the concept of “One Day at a Time”. Today’s MotD reminds us that we don’t have to resolve everything in our lives all at once. That just creates overwhelm, which in turn creates a situation where we just want to crawl into a hole someplace and hide. Instead, we’re encouraged to take it one day at a time. Yes, it’s cliché and yet it works.
We can start by daily asking ourselves what absolutely needs to be done just for today? Or it could be what’s one step I can take today towards completing a project? Or if we are working on creating a new habit, we could remind ourselves Just for today, I can go without eating cookies or Just for today I can walk for 10 minutes, or Just for today I can forgo watching TV and so on.
While there’s value in having a long-term goal that we’re wanting to achieve, with this week’s focus we’re invited to adopt the mantra of “Just for Today”. Right now, we only need to get through today. What can we do just for today? Even at 10 minutes a day over one year that equates to 60.83 hours. Imagine what we could accomplish in 60+ hours!
This year’s Mandalas of the Day are an excellent example of “one day at a time”. Each day I paint one of 365 puzzle pieces which at the end of the year will turn into one large, 48”x48” mandala entitled “Archangel Mandala No. 4”.
How about you? Are you overwhelmed by a project, goal, or new habit? Can you break it down into smaller tasks whereby you can make small but steady progress each day?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 