Wow! It has been harder than I thought to keep up with this blog. In the beginning I had visions of updating everyday. Of course I also had visions of posting lovely pictures with each of my posts. You know, the perfect photo to go with each item I am grateful for. Well . . . as you can see neither one of those things is happening at this point. Today I was wondering why I wasn't making time to post everyday and I realized it is because I am blessed with a wonderfully busy life right now.
I am a wife, a mother, a friend, a business owner, and a contract worker. I am also a dog walker, a chef and a housekeeper. A daughter, a granddaughter, & a niece. A seeker of God, knowledge and a great cup of coffee. A facebook poster, and a Bunco player. In between all of those things, I like to sleep a little every now and then.
So rather than beat myself up for not blogging everyday, I am going to enjoy all of my roles. It is a busy and wonderful life indeed.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Choose Your Own Adventure
Remember those "choose your own adventure" books? The ones where you would read a few pages, be presented with 2 choices and then flip to the indicated page to see how things turned out? I loved those books. And I loved the fact that if you didn't like how things turned out, you could start over and make different choices.
Today I realized that attitudes are much like those books. We have to choose, every minute of every day, what kind of attitude we are going to have. Lousy things happen in life. There is no denying that. And no amount of positive thinking can change them. But what you can change is how you deal with it. Are you going to let your family disappoint you and ruin your day? Or are you going to love and accept them for just who they are and move on? Is the no-show client going to derail your week? Or will you use the unexpected time to make a few calls to line up more business? What will you choose?
Lately I have been frequenting a couple of blogs that are supporting a friend with cancer. Yes, they are supporting her with love and prayers, but they are also supporting her cause. At a time in her life when no one would blame her for taking to her bed in self pity, she is choosing to spend her time trying to make things better for other breast cancer survivors by helping to provide lymphadema sleeves for those who can't afford them. Wow.
Today a couple of things happened that made me sad. And mad. And then sad again. But I thought about this person I don't even know who CHOSE to make the best of her situation, and about all of her friends who were in full support of her choice and I decided that I didn't need to feel sorry for myself. I needed to pick myself up, and focus on the good things in my life.
There are so many things I am grateful for in my life - they far outweigh the bad things. And I realize that I am blessed that that is the case. So today, I choose to focus on the good! And the great things about life is that just like in the choose your own adventure books, we can choose another attitude tomorrow if we don't like where the one we had today led us. A cosmic do-over - available at any moment.
Today I realized that attitudes are much like those books. We have to choose, every minute of every day, what kind of attitude we are going to have. Lousy things happen in life. There is no denying that. And no amount of positive thinking can change them. But what you can change is how you deal with it. Are you going to let your family disappoint you and ruin your day? Or are you going to love and accept them for just who they are and move on? Is the no-show client going to derail your week? Or will you use the unexpected time to make a few calls to line up more business? What will you choose?
Lately I have been frequenting a couple of blogs that are supporting a friend with cancer. Yes, they are supporting her with love and prayers, but they are also supporting her cause. At a time in her life when no one would blame her for taking to her bed in self pity, she is choosing to spend her time trying to make things better for other breast cancer survivors by helping to provide lymphadema sleeves for those who can't afford them. Wow.
Today a couple of things happened that made me sad. And mad. And then sad again. But I thought about this person I don't even know who CHOSE to make the best of her situation, and about all of her friends who were in full support of her choice and I decided that I didn't need to feel sorry for myself. I needed to pick myself up, and focus on the good things in my life.
There are so many things I am grateful for in my life - they far outweigh the bad things. And I realize that I am blessed that that is the case. So today, I choose to focus on the good! And the great things about life is that just like in the choose your own adventure books, we can choose another attitude tomorrow if we don't like where the one we had today led us. A cosmic do-over - available at any moment.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Back Again
Wow - its been over a month since I have posted. Its certainly not that I don't have things to be grateful for, I just haven't been posting them for some reason. But since my husband outed me to my friends last night and now they know I have a blog, I guess I better get back to writing!
When I sat down to write this, I had so many things to choose from - my life is quite amazing right now. And for some reason I feel almost guilty about that. Why? I have no idea. What is it that makes us hesitant to talk about the amazing blessings we have in our life? Why is it so much easier to point out the problems, to complain, to focus on the negative? I don't know why that is, but I am determined to break that cycle for myself. I pledge to acknowledge the bad things, but to spend my time focused on the good. To take a moment and find the good in every person and every situation. Yes, there is plenty of bad in the world, but there are also many, many people that focus on those bad things. Since that is covered, it frees me up to focus on the good. The happy. The exciting. The fun. The amazing. So that is just what I will do.
When I sat down to write this, I had so many things to choose from - my life is quite amazing right now. And for some reason I feel almost guilty about that. Why? I have no idea. What is it that makes us hesitant to talk about the amazing blessings we have in our life? Why is it so much easier to point out the problems, to complain, to focus on the negative? I don't know why that is, but I am determined to break that cycle for myself. I pledge to acknowledge the bad things, but to spend my time focused on the good. To take a moment and find the good in every person and every situation. Yes, there is plenty of bad in the world, but there are also many, many people that focus on those bad things. Since that is covered, it frees me up to focus on the good. The happy. The exciting. The fun. The amazing. So that is just what I will do.
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