Good Persistence
Our focus this week — Nov 5-Nov 11: “Perseverance”
Today’s MotD: Good Persistence. Chances are over the years we’ve picked up a few “unhelpful” habits—habits that have become persistent in nature: procrastination, self sabotage, rash decisions, avoidance, and the like. We’re encouraged to take advantage of our persistent nature and use it for our good: self care, self appreciation, self confidence, self achievement, and so on.
Here’s the thing with persistence…if we know going in that some days we’ll take a step backwards while others we’ll take a step forward, we’ll have a better chance of continuing to create positive change/achievement over time. That if we were to look at our progress over that period of time, we’d see that, overall, we’ve been moving forward.
For instance if we’re looking to release some excess weight. We may have a day where the number on the scale goes up. So on that day it might not feel so “good”, or that we’ve “failed” or that we can’t do this; however if we were to look at the numbers over a period of a week or so, we’d likely to see that, overall, our weight has gone down.
At least that’s what happened to me yesterday morning. I had gone up 0.8 lbs in two days and yet for the week, I noticed that I’m actually down 1 lb. With that perspective, I feel more motivated to keep going forward with my quest.
Persistence tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (goal) and to keep picking ourselves up when it appears that we may have faltered a bit. Essentially, we’re doing a dance: two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back. With persistence, and doing the dance, we can reach our goal(s).
How about you ? Is there something you’re persistent with that’s not serving you at this time ? Can you use your persistent nature towards something that WOULD serve you ? Can you still persist towards your goal(s) even if it takes doing the “cha cha” to get there ?
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 