#CLRJ - CLR GRATITUDE JOURNAL on 14-05-2026 (CLRJCLRGJ4052026)

CHRISTOPHER LIAM ROSE JOURNAL (CLRJ)

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Hello everyone, my name is Christopher Liam Rose. Um this is my gratitude journal for the 14th of the 5th, 2026. And um you know today's been a good day. Um obviously I've been quite busy today. Uh I've just started my first um university course, which is called the peer support supervision course, um, which is a training to learn how to do peer support supervisions in groups settings. Um obviously it's been a while since I've been an educational department or university or college or school. Um I think um it's a lot of learning that I learned today, a lot of understanding that I learned today. Um learning that you know um when you have a dream and a desire to want to achieve something and do something that's very important for you, sometimes in life you have to come out of your comfort zone. So sometimes you've got to do things that you wouldn't normally do. It's not that um you're not capable of doing the things that you want to do as far as your dreams and desires, it's more that when you come out of your comfort zone and do things that you're not normally doing within your life, this helps you to spiritually grow as a human being. And when you spiritually grow, you learn and understand new things. So I woke up very early today, I woke up about probably 5 40 today, um, went to uh the university, which is a city St George's University, and um has been a long time since I've been in like a university environment. The last time I remember being in universities when I studied um a degree um which I didn't complete, but it was um there were two degrees that I studied, but the first degree was business management and the second degree was business information technology. Um but I think with those degrees that I studied it wasn't aligned to who I was as a person, and um I never thought I would be going back to university again. That wasn't like part of my uh plan. Um but I think it's important to learn and understand as well when you do things that is very important to you, like something that's very important to you, you know like your call to do it, you know it's aligned to your values, your purpose, your morals, and your values, and you stay on that path and you pursue that, like basically pursue the path that um you know you want to basically go down. Um obviously it has been like 12 to 13 years since I've worked in mental health and um I do explain it quite a lot to people and try to let them see the inspiration and the motivation towards helping other people. Um life is precious and um I've started to learn as well today and understand today that you only got so much time throughout the day. Um sometimes you you want to do more throughout the day than you should because you feel like you don't have enough time to get everything completed. But I um I realize that sometimes it's not about going, going, going, pushing, pushing, pushing, trying to keep like um what's the word for it? Like trying to keep pushing towards things. Sometimes you just have to be okay, this is what I can do today, um, this is what I'm meant to do today, and if I don't get other things done or achieve the other things I was meant to do, that's okay, because um they say there's a saying that people always say they say you can't there's no human being that can work 24 hours a day. So as a human being, no human being can work 24 hours a day. Normally, when we work, it's normally between normally eight hours to maybe 16 hours throughout the day, but there's no human being that can work 24 hours a day, so that means within a day of however your day is within your life, you have to make time for rest, you have to make time for just not always pushing, pushing, pushing, moving forward, forward, forward so quickly. I'm not saying that like um dreams and desires don't matter, and you know what you want to achieve out of your life doesn't matter because it always matters to the individual. What it does mean is that basically a spiritual life is a slow process, it takes time as you learn and understand, develop yourself to understand the process. So when you it's hard to explain, but I try to explain it in this audio when you um when you when when you when you see things within the world of society and see sort of what's going on within the world of society, and you think everyone's just like on their mobile phones or something to do with their looks or something to do with um perception of reality, and it's like this non-going um how can I describe it, like rat race where it's like you constantly it's like you work, you work, you work, you sleep a little bit, and then you work, you work, you work, but it's like it's not the way to live, right? So it's like you have to find the right balance for you, and I think for all human beings, we need to find the right balance for ourselves. And I think today what I've learned today is that which is one of the main lessons that I've learned today, it's okay to take your time, it's okay to say, you know, I can do this for a number of hours, but then at some point throughout the day, I need time to myself, I need time to just look after myself, take care of myself, and that's nothing wrong in the work you do for others because if you look after yourself and take care of yourself and find that time for yourself, whatever you do within that time is up to the individual, but you have to make that time for yourself, then you're able to help more people that way, you're able to give back more, and you're able to make a bigger difference. But I think when you it's like even today, like how how like I was thinking, like I was at university and I was thinking, I've got so much I need to do, and I need to just stay behind and do it, and I I was thinking, but no, like I need to go home. Like I've been I've been in university all day, like from probably I'll say from like six from seven o'clock to about I left about like five thirty or five forty, so that's a whole lot of time in university. So I thought to myself, like, I know I've got work to do, I know there's more things I need to to basically do throughout the day, but you can't do everything in one day, and I think that's the reality of things. It's like a building block. You build, you build, you build, you take a rest, then you build, you build, you build, you take a rest. It's like a slow, gradual process. So sometimes you're you obviously I'm a very hard worker, right? And I do think like, look, if I've got things I need to do, I need to complete and do it, but at the same time, it's like when when would I find time for myself if I'm always working and constantly busy, so it's like you have to find the right balance for you, and I don't know what the right balance is. I'm just trying to find it because um, you know, it's a lot, you know. Um just realizing I'm back in university, like I never I never would have I never in my path I never would have thought it at all. You know, I was just like um trying to help other people, give back and make a difference, and um I never thought I'd be back in university and it's it's weird because it's like I've only gotten this opportunity because I've been aligned to what I've meant to be doing within the world of society, and that's it's like sometimes in life you can't it's like I I'll I'll put it in the audio, it's like when you're so busy, right, and you've got so many things you need to do, and so many tasks, and just things you need to do throughout the day. You don't make time for the simple things, you don't make time for okay, this is a big moment, you know, this is a big day, um, you know, um and just processing that rather than always like moving to the next thing so quickly. So it's like sometimes in life you've got to be present, you've got to be present with the now, and you've got to be present with okay, you know, um it's a milestone, it's it's it's an achievement, which it doesn't to me in my like career and what I've done for a living, it doesn't it may not feel like an achievement, it may not feel like that because you know I'm still young and I'm still developing and growing, but to the reality of it from like just the journey that I've been on in my life, you know, to to have the opportunity. Um and this isn't like my first time having this opportunity. I have had opportunities before in the past, but like this time it's different. This time I've learned a lot more than I did before because when I got opportunities like this before I was young, and I was still sort of growing and developing, and now it's like it's the right opportunity, and it's the right time. It it weren't like obviously today. I was thinking, Oh, I'm so busy, I've got things I need to do, I've got this I need to sort out that I need to sort out, and I'm thinking, but the truth is it's the right opportunity, and it's it's come at the right time, and um you know, getting back into that education, like um, you know, and it doesn't necessarily have to be university, it could just be education in itself, you're getting back into it, and then instead of spending a day working, I was spending a day like learning and understanding, so it's like you've got to appreciate that, you've got to appreciate that. I think for me just today, obviously my this is a bit of a longer journal um from a gratitude journal because I'm trying to process basically what happened and it's like um yeah it's it's it's it's it's a milestone for me and I think I think I think earlier I think my mind was just so busy that I couldn't recognise it. I was so focused on activities and tasks and what I need to do. I couldn't just make the time just to appreciate what's happened and um I would have I would have never thought I'd be back in university. Like it was it's just something I never would have thought of within my career path and opportunities, but there must be a reason for it, and um I think for me I need to spend the time learning what that secret of it is and what why in my path um now back in the situation because um it's amazing, it's really amazing and um I don't get much days when I don't have to work. Most of the time I'm normally working in some career or job or opportunity, but just having the time to learn grow um develop my skills, develop my abilities, develop my qualities and um just develop myself is quite amazing and um I think I know how important today was. I think I know why it's so important because I think for me just before I finish the audio because I don't want to go too too long, um I've always had an interest in learning. Like learning's been something I've always been interested in. Um I'm not just like someone that how can I put it, I just learn from books or audios or videos or podcasts and that sort of thing. My um learning and understanding and just learning and understanding my curiosity always leads me on the right path. And I'm not saying that when I say the right path, that I know what my path is because I I don't know what my path is. I'm just saying the right path in this present moment, so it's like with my dreams and desires, I I feel like I can do it. I feel like um it's possible. It's possible if I instead of how can I word it, instead of just being busy all the time, like really try to think, okay, is this what I want? Do I want to do this? Do do I want to be in the situation? Do how is my life going? Um do I feel content? Do I feel peaceful? Do I feel joyful? Do I feel love? Do I feel kindness? Do I feel empathy? Do I feel compassion? Do I feel like I'm making a difference? Do I feel like I've contributed? Do I feel like I'm going in the right direction for me? And um, you know, things happen in life, right? Things always happen in life, but I think for me, like my curiosity of learning and understanding is a really important thing. And it's like what I said earlier in the podcast and the audience today, it's not like um I learn from books, podcasts, audios, or videos. I'm I'm kind of a different person when it comes to learning and understanding. My um learning and understanding comes from life itself, you know, how I live my life and what I do day to day. And that's why with the journals that I always not just only recently I've been doing this, but with journals that I write, it's always been processing my days and processing what I'm learning. So it's like there's never a day when I'm not learning something or understanding something, so it's always continuous, and it just depends on you know, what do I need to pick up on, what do I need to work more on. Um, even sometimes what do I need to research on or what do I need to understand, and then process the information and then make my own choices and decisions based on not just the learning and understanding, but also my life experience and you know what what's gonna take me to the next level, what's gonna progress my life, how am I gonna move forward? And then when I say move forward, when I normally say move forward, I mean in like what I'm doing, and and I know people say, how do you say move forward and what you're doing? That doesn't make sense, but it it makes sense to me because I know where I came from, you know, I know I wasn't always like working, I know I was unemployed at some point, I know I didn't have opportunities at some point, I know I wasn't in university, or I wasn't in college, or I wasn't in school, I know that I wasn't doing podcasts or audios or gratitude journals or even writing in journals. So all of this learning, all of this understanding has basically made me who I am. So it's not for me, just before we finish, it's not just like simple things, it's like very, very, you know, important things is it's keep it's kept me learning. It's kept me just curious about life, and it's like when you're curious, it's like you make time for learning and understanding. When you when you actually when you when you are curious, you make time for learning and understanding, and that curiosity, not saying you know everything, not saying you're the best, not saying you're great, not saying you're good, just that curiosity of just okay, this is what my day's gonna bring, and this is what I'm gonna learn and understand throughout the day. If things happen in a day that I'm not happy about, okay, process it, reflect on it, um, try to see what you can do to improve it, and then move forward. And that takes a lot of learning understanding. So it's like the learning and understanding becomes important in everyday life. It's not just you do this, you do that, you do this, you do that. It's that every single day you're meant to be learning something, growing, developing, um, finding new things, discovering new things, and then that curiosity will keep you learning and keep you understanding. So that's my gratitude journal for today. Um, it's a bit longer, this one, but it's fine. Um, thank you for listening now. Take care, bye bye. Thanks.