In 2021, I created a little side project ‘Every Day Encouragement’. I posted something encouraging - a few words, a quote, a celebration of something inspiring - every day for 365 days.
I imagined it would be tricky; what on earth would I find to say every day? It turned out to be much easier than I thought. As I posted, so people were encouraged to send ideas and writing prompts, sharing the quotes they had found. All I needed to do was wrap them in the framework I’d created.
Looking back I see that Days 32 to 38 involved an additional twist. I decided to handwrite the quotes and ideas.
Day 35
What a treat to be sent a touching quote by our lovely friend, Veronica Fossa, which turned out to be the perfect prompt for Day 4 of the handwritten ‘encouragement’:
One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
John O’Donohue