9/27 Whole Life Wednesday

Winter is coming. Can Taylor and J-Bo outrun it?
We are in our second week of our Fall Whole Life Challenge. How are you all feeling? Hopefully, we are all through our "carb flu." 
This week's healthy lifestyle challenge is to practice morning gratitude. The instructions are simple:

1. Upon waking, create a mental list of things for which you are grateful.
2. The list can be as long or as short as you like. We recommend finding at least three things. 

The Whole Life Challenge folks think this is an important lifestyle practice because:

"There are oh-so-many ways to get the day started. It can be an automatic process, with its tone and energy determined by the first thoughts you have when your eyes open, or even the thoughts you had right before you went to sleep.
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If you’re not intentional about how you begin your day, you will get what comes your way.Your mind will decide your mood before you even know what’s happening.

Consider how easy it is to start the day in a less-than-optimal state of mind. Thoughts about how many things need to get done, how little sleep you got, or what somebody said yesterday that rubbed you the wrong way rush into your mind like a flash flood as soon as you wake. This sets you off on a particular track that can easily influence your experience for the rest of the day.

Imagine instead what your day could be like if you put aside any thoughts or feelings that rush in and gave a moment to acknowledge the good reasons to be awake, the things that make you happy, or that make the world a better place.
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Yes, this week’s practice is an exercise in morning gratitude, but it is also about practicing setting your own mood and energy, taking responsibility for and control over how you experience the world." 

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