Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat Pray and Love fame was on Oprah recently and she suggested 3 daily rituals:

1. Every day write down what you really really really want.  Yes it has to be 3 “reallys” to make sure it really is something you want.  I like this one.  So often we meander through life avoiding the bad stuff, but what are we really moving toward? 

2. Write down the happiest moment of every day.  This is a good “get to know yourself” ritual.  Do we really know all the things that juice us? 

3.  Refine your mantra. We repeat things to ourselves all the time.  Notice what it is.  Is it helpful or hurtful?  Be ready to find something new.

I was thinking about the three things and then I read this in the recent Conversations with God newsletter that explains why:

The experience of love and passion becomes the “magnet” and pulls to us the experiences or the doingness to create more of it, because the more we get clear about what produces the deepest most profound feelings of love and joy is where we find the path to our authenticity. CwG teaches us our feelings are our compass to truly know ourselves and navigate the world. The feelings of love and passion are the strongest magnets to pull that which we deeply desire to us. This is the “stuff” of creation–the engine that creates the movement of drawing that which you desire to you.

To me, Liz’s list exercise is just a good practical way to build awareness of what we want more of.  Not to mention that reviewing the list would be a great way to check in on whether what’s listed has the power to bring up the same feelings.  A touch stone to see what’s important over time. 

So I hope you’ll join me.  “I’ll tell ya’ what I want what I really really (really) want…..”