The Drops of Awesome that started my Bucket of Happy:

"Drops of Awesome"- Has anyone read this blog? ( http://www.daringyoungmom.com/2012/12/19/drops-of-awesome/ ) because it has basically blown my mind and changed the way I look at my life. Kathryn, the author of this blog has this epiphany,

"Drops of Awesome! I thought. Every time you do something good, something kind, something productive, it’s a drop in your Bucket of Awesome. You don’t lose drops for every misstep. You can only build. You can only fill." I love this concept! From here I decided that I need to give the daily things I do in my life some more credit.

I am terrible at keeping a journal.. I’m a note taker. Which sounds super lame. I always have this little black book in my bag that I geekily pull out and take write down whatever I hear that hits me. If it was said within my hearing and it affects me- it's in my little book. Which is great.. BUT what has hit me recently is that I need to get better and writing down my own epiphanies and insights about my life. In sacrament meeting, a speaker was talking and expressed his thought that it’s important for us as individuals to not write down just what other people say, but the thoughts and impressions we have as they are said. This was really inspiring! And so of course, me, being me, wrote this statement down word for word before I realized the irony of the situation and crossed out my very carefully written quotation. Over it I scribbled my personal break- through that I need to do better at writing MY own story.

My problem is I can never bring myself to write down the things that happen in my life to me, personally, that impact me. I never write down when I do something awesome with my roommate, or go on the best date ever, or have the best spiritual epiphany, or teach the best lesson, or have the coolest conversation with my mom. Those are things I really want to remember, and I don’t want to start writing them down too late.

In my head these daily things don’t seem epic enough to be written down, but this whole idea of “Drops of Awesome”, to me, means that anything good, kind, productive, anything that makes me happy needs to be remembered. These daily adventures in Rexburg Idaho, that usually don’t include life altering decisions, or ground- breaking breakthroughs, are all drops in my bucket of happy.