I love journaling prompts and positive challenges. These are combined into the book 200+ Journal Prompts for the Mind, Body and Soul by Riley Reigns. One of her prompts on the topic of self-love is to list ten things you love about yourself. Of course, it shouldn’t require a book of journaling prompts to come up with this idea, but oh well. I am going to take this challenge today and try to take it to the next level by challenging myself not to follow each statement with a “but…”. Here goes.
1. My sense of humor. I particularly love wordplay and verbal jokes, most with a dark theme. I remember, when I was first admitted to the psych hospital, cracking jokes about the difference between the patients and staff in a mental ward (“the patients get better and leave”). I mean, literally during my first days.
2. My intelligence and craving for knowledge. I love to collect facts and information and this I consider a true asset.
3. My perseverance. I am not one to easily give in and ask for help before having tried something myself first. Particularly when I’ve set my mind on accomplishing something, I’ll really go for it. I can also really focus my mind on a topic of my interest.
4. My honesty. I am open-minded, but if I don’t like something, I’ll be truthful about it. I don’t sugarcoat my opinions.
5. My open-mindedness. I consider myself slightly left-leaning politically and a progressive Christian, but am open to people from all walks of life. Even though I am bluntly honest sometimes, I respect everyone who respects other humans.
6. My sensitivity. I am easily touched by the beauty and sadness around me. This allows me to connect to others on a deeper level than I would otherwise be able to and to experience the world more richly.
7. My ability to express myself. I find that both creatively and verbally, I am able to be very open about my experiences and inner world.
8. My generosity. I am not sure that’s the right word. What I mean is the fact that I find joy in making my own gifts for people and especially thinking about what they’ll enjoy. I love it when I can make them smile.
9. My strong-willedness. This allows me to stand up for what I believe in and for what I want even if it is outside of the norm.
10. My resilience. Even though I’m prone to depression, I always find a will to continue fighting.
What do you love about yourself?
Linking up with #LifeThisWeek and Hello Monday.
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You are a wonderful person and have so many good qualities. x
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Thank you so much, Kim!
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These are fabulous traits to love about yourself! I love my sense of humor too even if I mostly rely on movie quotes and sarcasm. 🙂
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Oh yes, sarcastic humor can be so great indeed. Love it!
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I love this list Astrid! Well done! A great list of great qualities! xo
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Thank you so much. Now I’m challenging you to do one for yourself, too. 🙂
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Yes I think I will do one too 🤗
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That is a wonderful Top Ten list, really!
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Thank you. Haha, a top ten list? I think these are the only ten qualities I could come up with and some actually overlap.
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What a great list Astrid. I admit to being determined and someone who likes to have a say in how things need to be!! Thank you for linking up for Life This Week. Next week, I am sharing my self care stories for the last time in 2021. Where DID that year go?
Hope to see you then too, on or off prompt!
Denyse.
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Thank you for commenting. I am so proud of your determination, that’s a great quality. Yes, the year definitely flew by, didn’t it?
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Oh this is such a lovely list and what a good idea to look for things you love about yourself (and well done for avoiding the ‘but’ – it’s so easily done, isn’t it?!) These are all such fabulous qualities to have. #MMBC
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Thank you so much. Avoiding the “but” wasn’t so easy, but I’m all the prouder of myself for having accomplished it.
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I like your resilience, too. And perseverance (hard to spell). I had perseverance trying to figure out how to spell that word…didn’t want to cheat and see how you spelled it!!
I like my creativity, my work ethic and my big heart!!
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Thank you so much. And LOL about it taking you perseverance to spell the word “perseverance”.
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