"Every day is a great day..."
and it's up to you to figure out why
Abundance has always meant money to me. Period.
Because there is always more to earn and more to have, I never feel like I have enough. My mind is constantly buzzing with the hum of comparison, lack, and striving for MORE.
A few days ago I was listening to a podcast with Alex Ikonn, co-founder of Intelligent Change and The Five Minute Journal, and he said something that landed deeply:
“Honestly, my baseline is just waking up. I wake up in the morning… and I’m grateful to be alive, healthy. I get to live another day? Incredible. That’s my baseline for happiness. Everything else is a bonus. Whatever I get, whether it be a hug or a great conversation or an opportunity, like, happy days. But my baseline is just waking up. Everything else is happy days.”
I thought to myself —
That’s not how I feel at all.
When I wake up, my body doesn’t jump out of bed or ease into gratitude. I brace. My body tightens and my mind races for another day of striving, chasing, grasping.
Alex’s perspective on gratitude and abundance made me pause and ask: what would it take to change this? To build a new kind of baseline that doesn’t rely on constant achievement or external markers of “success” or the constant chorus of more, more, more?
Moments that Matter
I decided to start an experiment. A nightly check-in with five small but mighty questions to help me tune into my life and the moments that actually matter. Because why not be all in on your life ALL THE TIME? (Thank you to
for that gem!)Here are the five questions I’ve been using:
What sparked a sense of awe or stopped me in my tracks today?
What’s something beautiful I noticed?
What was a meaningful moment I had?
What feels uncertain? What’s one new way I could approach it?
What do I want to experiment or play with tomorrow (even if it flops)?
They're helping me tune into my own life. To build the muscle of noticing. To shift my awareness from what's missing to what’s already here.
And then (because the universe loves timing) I saw a TikTok where a woman shared a quote from her therapist:
”Every day is a great day and it’s up to you to figure out why.”
🤯 🫳🏼🎤
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This daily practice and these five questions are helping me do exactly that. To figure out why each day matters, catch the micro-moments of magic, and rewire how I relate to what’s already here.
If you want to try it with me, you don’t have to do all five. Just start with one ✨