Can You Be Happy for 100 Days?
Three years ago I completed the #100HappyDays challenge for the first time. The rules are simple - select a social media platform, and post a photo of something that makes you happy for 100 consecutive days. It's that simple! It could be a photo of an especially spectacular cup of coffee you're enjoying, an outing with your best friend, a new pair of fabulous shoes you ordered that arrived, some beautiful flowers that are growing in your garden - anything that brought you happiness that day. I started the challenge for the first time at the beginning of January 2014. Upon completing the challenge, I wrote about it on MY REAL BLOG to share what I learned going through this exercise in happiness.
I enjoyed the challenge so much that I opted to go through it a second time, except this time I began in September 2015, a year and a half later. It was fun to catalog 100 days of happiness through my favorite season, autumn. Here is a photo montage of some of the photos from that exercise:
Visitors from out of state and country, and the triumphant return of Bluebell Ice Cream,
were definite highlights from my second round of the #100HappyDays challenge
Focusing on a moment of happiness each day can alter your frame of thinking to seek out that which makes you happy. As I mention in my blog post (linked above), I learned that, while not every aspect of every day will necessarily be happy, I could always identify something each day that brought me happiness - even if it were something quite simple.
Knowing that this semester would be perhaps my most challenging yet - taking a full-load of courses while working full-time - I opted to go through the exercise for a third time. Some days it has felt like one more thing I have to remember to do, when I already [often] feel overwhelmed by the amount of what is expected of me to accomplish; however, it has served a beautiful purpose in forcing me to pause for a moment each day this semester to remember something that brought me happiness. An additional benefit of doing the challenge this third time is that it has served as sort of a countdown towards the end of this semester. My 100th day will be this upcoming Monday, May 1st. At this point, I fully intend to do the challenge a fourth time, likely a year from now, when my husband and I go on our trip to Europe.
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