Your Best Life in 60 Seconds...or Less

Your Best Life in 60 Seconds…or Less

One of the things I love most about the New Year is we are given another opportunity to create the life we most desire; our best life. There is nothing mystical or magical that occurs between 11:59pm on December 31st and 12:01am on January 1st. But somehow, everything just feels different. We determine within ourselves (whether through written resolutions or verbal confirmation) to do a few things a little different.

Well, I’d like to challenge you to do something with me for most of the remaining days of January. They say it takes 21 days to create a new habit and there’s one good habit I’d like to make a part of my inner being. So I’m kicking off a new challenge for myself beginning this morning (feel free to join me) and by the end of this month I pray it will have become a permanent habit in my life.

I’ve mentioned this Proverb before but it’s worth repeating: “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” I truly believe this. In every area of our life, we can speak life or we can speak death. Our positive thoughts and words attract light. We have all been given the power to change our lives for the better or for the worse. And what we say, do and believe plays a major role in that change.

So here’s the first half of this daily challenge: Wake up every morning and spend at least 60 seconds saying thanks and listing all the things you are grateful for that day. You can do this while laying in bed staring at the ceiling, making the bed, while drinking a cup of tea or coffee, eating breakfast, brushing your teeth, etc. It doesn’t matter when you do it, as long as it’s done in conjunction with the very first thing you do in the morning.

The second half of this daily challenge is to declare (either out loud or internally) that you will focus on everything you have to be grateful for that day and will acknowledge challenges but will not dwell on them. Your thoughts will remain focused on everything you have to be thankful for in your life.

There are many roads leading to happiness, but all of them, must at some point merge with Gratefulness. So for the next 21 days, I will make a choice at the beginning of each day to be grateful. And before this month concludes, my hope is this daily acknowledgment will become a part of the fiber of my being.

If you feel compelled to go on this 21-day challenge too, let me know in the comments section below. And if you’re already doing a different challenge this month, to kick off the new year, please share that one too (feel free to leave the link). I’d love to know about all the great challenges out there.

Until tomorrow…make it a great day!

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).