"Look what the wind has blown in!"
It is just me, wondering how you are doing. I suppose you have planted your flowers and, if you are energetic, a garden. With the winds we have had lately we have to be careful they don't blow away. I guess most people are used to all these Saskatchewan winds. If you can stay grounded it is good, it blows the cobwebs away. Just think of all the good things.
I'm reading a book, Focus on the 90%, written by Darci Lang.
Do you focus on the 90 per cent or the 10 per cent? Many of us focus on the 10 per cent. I am trying to change because it does definitely help when we look at all the good things in life and the things we have going for ourselves. Do we focus on the 10 per cent negatives in our spouses or partners, or on the 90 per cent good things they have going for them? Concentrating on the 10 per cent only makes us miserable. We focus on all our shortcomings and failures instead of all our blessings in life.
None of us are perfect and never will be, so why do we punish ourselves by trying to be something we are not? Let's just admit we aren't perfect and move on. Hurts are another thing people tend to hold onto and keep rehashing. All that does is perpetuate the bad feelings and add to our misery. Life is too short and holding onto grievances is certainly not good for our health. Let's learn to forgive and forget. Make amends when we can and apologize if we have hurt someone and go on from there. After all, often people don't mean to hurt us. It's usually a misunderstanding that needs to be sorted out and the air cleared. Certainly we will be so much happier if we can move on and leave all the negative thinking behind us.
Ask yourself what are the positives in my life? What am I doing to make others happy? Am I a good wife, a good mother, a good grandmother, a good neighbour? Can I be relied upon? Am I truthful, kind and friendly? Am I a good friend? Of course we all fail at times, but if we brood on these things then we miss out on the joy we can experience.
Often as we get older we start to feel sad when we look back on our lives and wonder where our life has gone. We wish we had done this or that and wish we hadn't dome something else. Then we can become miserable as we begin to think our lives are over. We must face it. This is a fact of life and we cannot change it, so be thankful for the good things and move on.
So, let's just see if the wind of change will help us focus on the 90 per cent this week.
