25-119 Not All at Once

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MotD 25-119 Not All At Once — after. painted front side of Puzzle Piece No. 8 with colors of greens, blues, reds, yellows, orange, and purple.

Not All at Once

This week we focus on the concept of “One Day at a Time”. Today’s MotD encourages us to go after our big dreams, goals, and aspirations yet not all at once. Take a step at a time, a day at a time, a task at a time. The main idea of this approach is to minimize overwhelm, maintain our peace, and keep momentum going forward. Otherwise there’s the potential to be waylaid…and where does that get us?

This week I’m scanning all of the Mandalas of the Day from 2024. If I truly wanted to, I could scan all 366 of them in one day. I could but at what cost to my well-being. The temptation is there to keep going, my OCD would LOVE for me to do all 366 in one session, but I know the toll it will take on me.

So I’m scanning 50 or so a day. It’s more manageable and it allows me time to make daily progress on other tasks as well. As of today, I’ve scanned 160 of them. Within the next four days they’ll all be scanned and I’ll still have my sanity

How about you? Are you tempted to do things all at once? Is that your M.O.? If you can, take one task and see if you can break it down into seven smaller tasks that can be done one at a time per day over one week. Then notice how you feel by the end of the week when it’s fully completed.

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:

MotD 25-119 Not All At Once — before. front side of Puzzle Piece No. 8
MotD 25-119 Not All At Once — before. back side of Puzzle Piece No. 8

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.

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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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