The OVL Project - Day 16

The Power of Stick-to-it-ness

Okay, so it's not a word but I bet you get my meaning.

Thinking about and writing your five daily gratitudes in your 

journal as well as your daily thank you card takes effort and 

persistence. For me, so does writing this blog. But when I am

 done each part of my commitment, I feel satisfied and empowered.

 I set out to accomplish something and I did it! Too often we let

 ourselves off too easily. We say we are going to do something

 and we get distracted, we forget, we get too tired... There are

 a multitude of excuses available. Whatever happened to the good

 ol'days of sticking to your word? Meaning what you say and 

saying what you mean. Following through to the end, no matter

 what? This is how thoughts turn into action and action makes you

 a creator.You say something and it happens. You trust yourself,

 you believe in yourself and in turn, so do others.


This morning I decided to go pick some wild blueberries behind my

 parents house in the country. I announced my departure with my

 large plastic container in hand and after turning back for 

mosquito repellent after the first 5 minutes, I was headed out 

into the backwoods to fetch me a pail o' berries. I found a small

 patch of blueberries and started picking and picking and 

picking. Wild blueberries are particularly small and I was hardly

 making a dent in the container. I started looking for new berry

 patches. Time passed. I changed my stance: I knelt on the mossy

 ground, sat, squatted and bent over from a standing position. I 

became one with the patch and got into the flow of picking. All I

 could hear was the wind blowing in the trees and the bees

 buzzing about around me. My bucket was full(the blackberries 

were a bonus passing bush).

 I walked back with great pride not having realised that two 

hours had gone by. I thought about doing it, I said I was going

 to do it and I did it!

I created a full bucket of blueberries where before there were

 none. The OVL Project is much like that - you are filling your

 own bucket as well as others by your daily ritual of picking 

love and gratitude, one small deposit at a time. Before long,

 your bucket overfloweth.

Enjoy!

:)Francine