I got so much done this year! And I have a really good handle on how to knock
out the rest it. As this amazing, last
year slips through my fingers and comes to a close, I am excited to spend a few
minutes on something a little more cerebral.
I can’t help but reflect on last year’s resolutions and think of what I
will identify as this year’s. Health,
wealth and happiness. Isn’t that the
standard?
My health is good. I
try to eat pretty healthy and have gone organic and/or local with a lot more
things. If I am gonna eat crap, I try to
do it early in the day and make sure it’s really good crap. I have been implementing exercise that I will
actually do and enjoy, like bowling, swimming and horseback riding. I take time for me and I sleep a lot when I’m
not working. I am finally scheduling with regularity the
body and energy work that I need.
Wealth is gonna have to wait. I am still trying to get a handle on the day
to day… but getting there, little by little, which, as I understand it, is
really the only way.
Happiness. I was just
talking to a happy woman in line at McDonald’s this morning about how happiness
is a choice and something that we have to work on every day, like anything else. It’s a matter of rethinking perspective,
finding (no matter how hard you have to look) that silver lining/ the positive
side, talking to and liking yourself, smiling, and the willingness to do the
work.
I spent yesterday on the couch watching an endless Law &
Order SVU marathon. These TV shows are
my stabilizers, my attitude adjustment, my perspective. Today, I did not get raped, mugged, stabbed,
shot, have chemo, my husband cheat on me, or come out of the closet, car
wrecked, job lost, death in the family, etc.
And even on days when those things do happen, is there not a silver
lining somewhere in there?
There has to be, for me anyway. There has to be a reason bad things
happen… Hey, I think someone even wrote
that book. Maybe there was someone I was
supposed to meet, something I was supposed to learn, the acknowledgement of how
much worse it could have been/ how blessed I really am. Because the option is so dark, angry, bitter…
to just see the bad/evil/ugly in everything around… that just does not seem
like a good way to live. When I have the
option, the choice, to see things with a rosy tint, why would I not go there?
