This activity will take about 30-45 minutes. Open a new note on your phone or a fresh google doc and title it, “The Receipts” This is not a journaling exercise. Set a timer for 20 minutes and answer these prompts. Short answers. Bullet points. No pretty sentences. If your brain says “that doesn’t count,” write it down anyway and put a STAR ⭐️ next to it. We’ll come back to those stars next Tuesday when we meet. 1. Three times someone thanked me or told me I did something well (any context, any year, work or personal). 2. Three problems I solved that other people didn’t know how to solve. 3. Three things I built, started, organized, or made better that would not exist without me. 4. Three moments I was scared or overwhelmed and did the thing anyway. 5. Three skills I have that other people have paid me for or asked me to teach them.

Happy Friday. Read someone else’s introduction today. Welcome a new sister. Leave a thoughtful comment. Share encouragement. Start a conversation. This is how community is created, not through perfection, but through presence. You don’t have to arrive with everything figured out. And you don’t have to be your best self every day. You simply have to arrive as yourself. This is your invitation to make room for joy, not as something you have to earn, but as something you are worthy of experiencing, protecting, and creating. Oh that’s just a picture of my niece Kaci☺️

Attached is document. You can use this to identify values, explore them or add to ones you have before we meet tomorrow.

For everyone who attended on Tuesday, was it as great for you as it was for me? I got so much good feedback and I thank you for it. Do you have any takeaways to share? Also, we meet next Tuesday, same time. 8pm cst/9pm est. I'll be sharing about planning joy for this last quarter and into the new year. I'll also give a breakdown on Communion by bell hooks and how we will break down the chapters to discuss. I'll share more about next week in another post.