“Any time you spend working on yourself is well spent,” – The Miscarriage Journal.

New rhythms take time. Start by focusing on the small choices that will eventually create healthy daily habits. That new idea or a healthier person you desire starts as a thought but requires an individual to make a choice, actively stick with it, and live it out daily. Habits start as elective choices that turn into daily rhythms. Take a survey of your everyday choices and note the rhythms you create or have created. Are you satisfied with them? Where could you use a change? 

In my new work, The Miscarriage Journal, I spend a healthy portion of the book talking about healthy daily rhythms that help make the best-cared version of yourself, creating a sustained person vs. someone running on fumes. 

The outcome? 

A person equipped well and whole to set herself up for success and the ones in your care, spouse, family, friends, and community. 

With a new year a month in the making, the sense of urgency can feel overwhelming, but rest assured, good living-worth rhythms take time, and I encourage you to focus first on your goals as a mother, wife, person, and community member. What rhythms do you want to create? Think, pray, and write them down.  

Remember daily lived-out habits once started as a choice. Sometimes, when habits are harder to create in areas of our lives, we have instilled hard, heart-holding rhythms. Sticking to a healthy habit may mean making that choice daily or hourly. 

Good and worthwhile things take time, but I encourage you to stick with it; the outcome of a better-balanced and equipped you is worth the journey. Here are a few of my goals to create better daily rhythms. Use these for you or come up with your own.  

-       Daily time with Jesus, preferably in the morning before my house wakes, but realistically, this will be after everyone goes to bed. 

-       Moving my body daily, I could write an entire article on how our body’s movement is connected to our spiritual and emotional being. This one may not be at the top of your list, but I promise it won’t disappoint. 

- Plan out the dinner menu for the week; I look at our family calendar and figure out what to prepare each night. By having a plan, I remove the task that tends to overwhelm me most at the end of the day. 

Pick two or three areas where you would like to improve and hold yourself accountable but remember; we serve a God who gives the gift of grace. We are not perfect, but we are perfectly created in His image; if you slip up, it is OK. Forgive yourself, move on, and start again; your temporary failures do not define the outcome of your desired daily rhythms. 

Thank you for joining me here; as always, you can connect with me on my social media, nicholethompsonwrites, or at nicholekthompson.com. See you there!

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