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Generosity Challenge: People Watching

The joy of giving to yourself and giving to others

In this post I’ll talk about my motivations for doing Lent and for doing the challenge, and what I learned from my first day!

I decided to give up Instagram for Lent this year. I could make a whole post about this, but essentially I want to grow as a person without Instagram as a “fallback.”

What I mean by that is Instagram is something I turn to numerous times throughout the day. I have an email to answer, or I’m about to move on to the next item on my to-do list, but I sigh and think to myself, I’m overwhelmed by all this work––I’ll just take a couple of minutes to scroll through Instagram.

So I scroll, but it ends up being much longer than a couple of minutes. I get sucked into hockey highlights, bloopers from The Office, and I’m just sitting there accomplishing nothing.

All of the scrolling keeps me from getting to the things I should be doing.

I’m taking away that distraction, and my aim is to be more committed to my work for each day. I also hope to spend the time I save doing more of what I love, like writing and going for walks!

Today’s prompt for the generosity challenge was about people watching: paying attention to those around us and looking for opportunities to be generous.

I was actually able to do this without physically seeing people.

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