It is ongoing, to do something Everyday,
every 24 hours, every time you look up,
every time you awake, if you live...
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It is ongoing, to do something Everyday, every 24 hours, every time you look up, every time you awake, if you live...
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Reposted by Request... Plan Ahead for Peaceful Holiday Season! ![]() I love the holidays, but as November was approaching, I began to see the stress associated with them and my frustration level began to grow. It’s not the turkey and holiday candy that gets to me, but all the outside activities that keep my calendar full- in a very exhausting way. Every self-help book in the world insists that we all have choices. I felt the need to exercise mine. I notice that I have a higher tendency to say “yes” to everyone who approaches me during this time of year. (Oddly, I’ve convinced myself that I do it in the interest of giving back during the holiday season). So, what will be different? This season, I think I’ll say “yes” to me. What do I want? I want a peaceful, joyous holiday season without the rushed preparation. I want to enjoy the whole season, November all the way through to January. I want to feel new and rested when the new year begins... ![]() I keep forgetting how much difference a day off makes. I took one unexpectedly and found that it reminds me that everything I need to do can’t be done in a day. It reminds me that I have other interests. There’s time to imagine the what if’s and the maybe’s. I assess where I am and where I want to be. On a day off with no agenda, I can see what I really have, and what my potential is. I can finally step outside and look at the landscape on a day when it’s not raining or freezing cold, no plough or shovel in hand. I realize that I have more options than I thought. On tomorrow, I will return to work with all those options in my head... Suddenly, yesterday’s worries look small. ![]() When changing yourself is hard, try changing your environment. There are so many elements to choose from, so many small ways to modify where you are: -Clean the house -Paint a room -Take a trip, make new memories -See different people -Create a favorite place -Go somewhere beautiful -Move -Help someone nearby -Add flowers It’s difficult to stay the same when the world is changing. Initiate changes that make your world better. You’ll love your reflection! ![]() When I was in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to leave the safe tourist zone, and visit long untamed beaches. I saw waves, easily ten feet high, crashing into the shore. In the distance, I also saw people who lived nearby, swimming, laughing, bobbing easily on the deep ocean as it pulsed with life. When one is surrounded with greatness, it is clear how insignificant one is, and yet, how much we all are a part of the larger universe. Harmony is about understanding and accepting the truth of a thing. Greatness is the recognition that what is within you is as large and complex as the universe around you. So when on days you’re feeling small, go ahead, find a way to immerse yourself in greatness. It will remind you of who you are. ![]() How much of our stressful culture do we pass on to our children? I question that children always do what we say- but they definitely do what we do. I have often seen myself unintentionally following the patterns of my parents. I’m sure that I am passing information on to my own children as well, but I don’t know which messages are getting through. Some years ago, I built a tree house with my son. I did this because I traveled extensively and I wanted him to remember us doing something together. I also did this because I didn’t want him to perceive his mom as a mad woman who was forever stressed out, always running to save everyone’s world but her own... ![]() When I think of how I completed my high school diploma or my scant knowledge of biology, it occurs to me that I didn’t acquire it all in a day. It took years of repetition, learning something here, reading something there, a little at a time until I completed the course. I walked to school Monday through Friday, rain or shine. Once I got there, they would teach us one more thing. Whether dull or exciting, Latin root words or frog dissection, at the end of the day, great or small, something was done. Over the Fall season, a class was completed and I had a basic knowledge of the English language, or the anatomy of amphibians. After twelve years of this, I received a piece of paper indicating that I had the audacity to finish something, and was probably qualified to go on to finish other things in life. Today, when I list all the goals I want to accomplish, the list seems long and daunting. But then I remember, some of my best accomplishments were completed in small consistent steps, like a class. ![]() I went in to work facing mountains of paper and lists of things to do. It was an avalanche waiting to crush me. I sat in a chair, staring straight ahead. I started to work on a small piece of it. It felt like trimming the toenail of a giant I could not conquer. I went home to another range of mountains. This time, many were posing as harmless crops and fields to be cultivated for the proverbial greater good or a seemingly worthy cause. But, I thought, All of this is killing me, slowly, deliberately, one stressful toxin at a time. I could feel myself suffocating, sweating; headache and exhaustion from the thought of it; fear of a new mountain pushing its head up through a volcanic floor. I needed to move away from the mountains, or move the mountains away from me, or close the admissions window to all new mountain-creating customers... |
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