I’m Over 60 and I Will Always Keep Surprising You

Why You Need a Go-To List of Good

There’s a painting I keep close to my heart called Enchanted Forest.
It looks simple at first glance—soft trees, blues and pinks, a dreamy, otherworldly light—but it holds something far more sacred: the memory of when I started rewiring my life

Enchanted Forest” Still Brings Me Back

I painted it during a season when I was slowly stepping away from everything I’d been taught to believe I wanted—especially when it came to relationships. I wasn’t bitter. I was curious. I was asking harder questions, giving myself permission to wonder: What if I didn’t chase the same old story again?

I was living in Louisiana at the time, devouring books, journaling like mad, sitting quietly with my own soul and saying, What now?

Then the hurricane hit. I lost a lot—but not this painting.
Enchanted Forest was packed away, protected, and preserved.

When I sold my house and moved to Virginia, it came with me.
And within two weeks of arriving in my new town, I was asked to show some of my art at an open house. I set Enchanted Forest up near the doorway of the building.

Within 15 minutes, a woman walking down the street came in and said, “I have to have this.”
She wrote a check on the spot.

I had been in town less than two weeks.

There was no hustle.
No perfect pitch.
Just flow. Just faith. Just the deep knowing that I had followed my soul—and my soul had led me somewhere good.

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But here’s the bigger lesson:

That moment is something I return to when I feel misaligned.
When I’m having a hard day.
When I feel like I’ve lost the thread of who I am and where I’m going.

And I don’t wait for memory to rescue me.
I keep a list.

Every night before I go to sleep, I write down the good things that happened that day.

It might be something as small as seeing a butterfly.
Or as big as receiving a message from someone who tells me my work helped them breathe a little easier.

This list becomes my lifeline when I hit a rough patch.
I pull it out. I reread a few lines. And I can literally feel myself pivot into a better emotional space.

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Why you need your own Go-To Goodness List (aka Pivot List):

🖋 Handwrite it.
There’s a rhythm that connects your body and your mind when you write longhand—not on a keyboard. That rhythm anchors the memory into your nervous system.

🌿 Fertilize your brain before sleep.
What you focus on before bed feeds your subconscious. End the day by noticing what was good, and your brain will keep nourishing it overnight.

🧭 It gives you a map back to center.
Bad days happen. Low moods sneak in. But when you have your own handwriting reminding you that good things are real and recurring? That’s power.

⚡️ You can pivot faster.
Instead of spiraling, you grab your list, read three or four moments of goodness, and your energy shifts. You stop feeding the fog and start moving forward.

💫 It raises your quality of alignment.
We’re always connected to our inner being—but the quality of that connection is everything. Your Pivot List helps you restore clarity and flow, fast.

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You don’t have to earn good days.
You don’t have to manufacture joy.
You just have to notice it—and write it down.

So if your days have felt heavy, or unclear, or like you’ve lost your spark…

• Pull out a notebook.
  Write down the tiny wins.

• The compliments.

• The synchronicities.

• The little flower you saw blooming in a sidewalk crack.

You’ll be amazed at what happens when you start tracking your alignment instead of your flaws.

That’s how I come back to myself.
That’s how I stay in the frequency of what’s working.
And that’s how, even years later, Enchanted Forest still brings me home.

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