finding your bliss

It's Texture Tuesday (just barely)

and here's what I am thinking about today.

I'm thinking about bliss.

Today I'm working on Crafting My Life

with Amber Strocel, and we are working

out how to map your life so that

you spend more time focusing on

your bliss.

And my thoughts are this:

that it is so easy to slide back

into living a life that doesn't

truly reflect your values.

That to live artfully requires

constantly checking in.

Constantly asking yourself,

am I following my bliss?

Or am I just doing what

I think is expected of me?

 I am trying to live

more artfully

more honestly

more authentically

more mindfully.

And it is a daily practice.

Sometimes I fail miserably.

Sometimes I stumble through

the day and when I sit down

to write my gratitude journal

I realize that I wasn't

truly present

at all that day.

Sometimes weeks go by

and I realize I haven't even

written in my gratitude journal.

Sometimes, even though I am

trying to eat healthier,

I take a chocolate eclair

out of the freezer and

gleefully scarf it down ;)

But every new day

I have the chance to remind myself

that I want to

live artfully.

That I want my daily life to

reflect my core values:

Family

Friends

Creativity

Spirituality

Self Care

And tomorrow is another new day.

P.S. For those interested in the technical aspect,

I used two layers of Kim's Sweet Tart texture

at 100% soft light to process this image :)