your daily rock : start again

June 17, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

My friend Amy made me an awesome calendar to plan Change Your Life Patti Digh (CYLPD), to give myself stickers for achieving goals like walking and eating well and practicing my fiddle and writing, and more. She even gave me the smiley face stickers and colored markers to use on it.

The May 2013 calendar was full of brightly colored notes and all kinds of stickers! I was writing down how I felt and what I wanted to do! I was walking and practicing my fiddle daily! And drinking 64 ounces of water a day!

Two days ago I sent a photo of my blank June calendar to Amy with this message: “I am a loser.”

No stickers. No smiley faces. No brightly colored notes to myself.

She texted back: “No you are not!!!!! Start filling the days!!!! Take a place holder walk!!!! Write in bright colors WHY you didn’t walk. Fill it up with good and bad. Start now!!!!!”

And just like that, Amy reminded me that every day is day one.

Start again, honey. Start again. Now.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.