Hey Delights!
First let me start off by saying that the area pictured here currently looks nothing like this.
This is what it looked like back in my favorite month, October in 2019 when I challenged myself to spend the entire month of October doing daily things to invoke joy. I used the hashtag #OctLiveWithJoy and shared a bit about it here.
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I thought about doing the challenge again this year but I didn’t think that I would have the discipline to do so because there is so much going on in my world with the plant business and just life.
But today 12 days into the month I realize that I thought about it the wrong way. The whole goal of the challenge is to get you to focus on creating those little moments of joy.
So while I was “logically” thinking about it and not wanting to ghost on it, I probably should have challenged myself to do it without the expectation that I had to strictly follow it day to day.
Do you get what I’m saying?
Now thinking about it, it feels like I talked myself out of doing something that would have ended up being good for me simply because I feared failing at it.
Have you done this? I basically ghosted on myself.
And honestly that kinda shocks me because I’m not usually the fearful type. But I am sitting with the feeling and the realization and just trying to make sure that I don’t make similar decisions going forward.
So for the rest of the month I am going to pull some of the items from the challenge and make time to complete them.
And not because I have to but because I know the joy that they will bring me.
But as far as that area in my living room goes, currently I am in Halloween mode so the wall looks like this. Here’s what it looks like at night.
It’s currently half decorated and I will be adding other touches to amp up the spooky vibes. After Halloween I go will go into fall mode 🍁.