Keep Showing Up
Our focus this week — Nov 5-Nov 11: “Perseverance”
Today’s MotD: Keep Showing Up Two adages in all 12-Step programs come to mind with regard to today’s MotD: “Keep Coming Back” and “It Works if You Work It”. Whatever it is that we’re wanting to achieve or do, whether it’s to learn a new language, become sober, release excess weight, earn a college degree, or foster a vegetable garden, all of it takes consistency, tenacity, and perseverance.
In other words we have to keep showing up for ourselves in order to make it happen. We have to keep coming back to it with the knowing that it will work out if we work at it. Although, my Team of Guides and Angels highly recommend that we find a way to “play” at it, to find a way to enjoy the process, enjoy the journey—even on the challenging days.
Outside of my art, one of the things I’m wanting to achieve is to become more confident with playing my piano. Earlier this year, I had made it a point to practice or play each day. I was actually starting to experience some progress and then I stopped. I think there was a part of me that had the thought “what’s the point ? you’re not going to do anything with it.” I started seeing it as a waste of time and a chore rather than something I could do just for the fun of it. It probably has something to do with an old limiting belief I picked up from my dad that “if you can’t make any money doing it or if you’re not doing anything productive, why do it ? What’s the point ?” Having “fun” is not productive. How sad.
In doing some meditations recently, I was repeatedly getting these one-word messages: play and fun. I took it as a sign to get back into playing my piano—even if it’s only for 10 minutes. I do know that it’s better to practice 10 minutes a day for six days than it is to practice one hour every six days. So that’s what I’m doing: playing my piano for 10 minutes a day (or longer if I feel inclined to do so). One change I’m making is my mindset: to allow myself to take my time with learning a new piece—to let go of the urgency of needing to “learn it right away”. Just enjoy playing the notes and the incremental progress I’m making each day—and to keep showing up.
How about you ? What’s something you’re wanting to achieve but seem to lack any consistency in your approach ? Is there a way to work/play at it in smaller increments of steps or time ? What needs to happen in order for you to keep showing up for yourself and your goal ?
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 