Just For Today

• Embrace the grind.
• Do not worry so much.
• Do not be so quick to anger or to judge.
• Do not open your mouth in haste, anger or gossip
• Honor your parents, mentors, teachers, and elders.
• Earn an honest living.
• Show your gratitude.
• Be generous of spirit.
• Be more gracious and ladylike.
• DO NOT think that you are fat!
• Make your work-out count and eat to fuel your body, not feed your fears.

This used to be taped to my wardrobe mirror--I would make it my morning prayer.  As a long time practicing yogi, I know that the sounds that words make carry great power--their vibrations send messages throughout our actual being just by being recited in our heads and hearts.  But some how, some way my Just For Today prayer got shoved into an obscure pile of papers in my home office and the "good vibrations" stopped.  Amidst the panic of not being able to find tax papers, I took more than 3 whole days to clean out; organize; cry and panic; declutter; panic some more; shred and label.  Besides having the feeling of being so much more organized and way less panicky, I had the added bonus of finding this once again!

Let's be honest, I should probably copy and laminate it and put it in my purse, and tape it to the inside of the medicine cabinet and the outside of the refrigerator and put it in a frame next to Original Darya  as these words truly speak to my deepest fears and insecurities, as well as to my most desperate longings.  I really want to do and be these practices not just for today, but every day.

xoxo Darya