While the leaves of fall turn their colors naturally, change does not come so easily to rest of the world.

For this month’s positivity challenge, I want you to consider one change that may allow you to enter into a new season of beauty in your life.

A season of beauty doesn’t necessarily have to do with changing your physical self. It can include changes in faith, patience, humility, acceptance, or simplicity. Choose to do something that brings a more beautiful light or outlook to your existence. Brighten your daily encounters with a more hopeful view or a greater appreciate for the diversity that you experience in others.

Some simple but significant changes to consider for your spiritual or emotional self include:

• Practice quiet meditation for 5 minutes each day; select a mantra that will bring about the change you seek, such as “I appreciate the good in others,” “My time is a gift and valuable to myself and those whom I share it with,” “Peace begins within me, let that peace find me here.”
• Smile, greet, or politely acknowledge all you meet, especially those who you don’t normally pay attention
• Compliment others on jobs well done or their appearance; make note of it
• Be conscious of the words you use when speaking to your family, spouse, or coworkers; keep a log or jar of unkind or impatient words. Making note of the not-so-nice things we say forces us to select less “noteworthy” negativity when we speak.
• Schedule time for things that will reduce futures stress:
  • pick out your clothes the night before
  • make a grocery list before going to the store and stick to it
  • make a budget and stick to it
  • plan a game night or movie night with your loved ones
  • share your schedule with your spouse or significant other
  • clean as you cook allow yourself to enjoy time with your family after dinner
  • fold each load of laundry after taking it out of the dryer (this way you don’t have mountains of laundry to fold later)
• Pick up trash or use recycling bins, even if the refuse isn’t yours
• Reduce time spent on social media
• Increase time telling stories or sharing memories with friends and family
• Clean out cluttered drawers
• De-clutter your desk
• Clean out your car
• Say an extra prayer each day for someone or something other than yourself
• Keep a journal of positive things or share one positive experience from the day with your family members each night

We can’t consider change without including a few healthy, physical progressions. With physical change, gradual will get the job done most every time.

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