Looking back at your entry from Prompt #7 - What thoughts are you looping? Are they consuming your day? Your energy? Your outcomes? Your chance to move forward? It’s time to get them all out. - What do you think causes you to hold onto those looping thoughts, expectations, and judgements?

Just when we think we’re over something we get triggered and then we tend to jump right back into looping thoughts leading us to create so many different scenarios of what could or should’ve happened.

Define what a Should Shield looks and feels like to you.

I define a Should Shield as the shoulds stacked against us, and the shoulds we stack against others.

Define the word Expectation and what it means to you.

Keep it real on this one. Don’t let illusions take you down a rabbit hole.

Do you live with a list of expectations or a menu of intentions?

I purposely connect a list with expectations because when you make a list it’s usually of items or things you need to gather, complete or tend to, right? Whereas a menu is again a list yet you get to choose what you’d like to have because it’s what you love and it makes you feel good.

Do you think it’s possible to shift your expectation-based life to living in the flow of intentions?

A simple question that will take more than one journal entry to unpack but today is a great day to get started.