Joy is not only something you find it’s also something you can choose to create– that’s what keeping a Moments Journal has helped me realize.

It’s 6 :39 AM on day 2335 of my journey towards independence and I managed to wake up early to say bye to my sister (she left to go back to university this morning),   pray, read 1 John 4: 9 and learn a new word –Potentate [po·ten·tate] n. One who has the power and position to rule over others: A monarch or ruler. “Industrial potentates.”

On New Year’s Day I decided every day this year I would write down one awesome moment of each day which has helped me realize that joy is not only something you find it’s also something you can choose to create – if the awesome moment does not happen naturally I make the moment awesome by doing something nice for someone, saying something genuinely nice to someone or simply appreciating the “little things” (it works every time the moments in which I’m the kindest and most grateful never fail to be my most joyful, most awesome moments).