It's easy to start of with a bang with everything feels so fresh and new- like 2008 does now. Full of possibilities- fresh beginnings - a clean slate.
I like to think I can recreate myself- clean up old personality problems or behaviors that aren't desirable or working in my life anymore. Or maybe those behaviors (habits, idiosyncrasies, traits) never have worked and I finally figured it out. Whatever the case- a new year is a way to rethink my life. To make it better. Learn what works and fix what is not working. Its sounds simple in theory, yet I know it takes some concentrated effort.
I also believe personal improvement it is a lifelong continuous process full of setbacks and false starts- and on the flip side can also have huge success and great happiness too. What I want to do is swing my life into the consistently happy and content side and less on the insecure melancholy side (which has been a perennial pattern for me).
Albeit, overall my life has been -all things said - great so far. Although not devoid of horrendous events. Yet I can easily slip into negative thinking and spiral downward with those thoughts and feel so lost and desolate there. I want to relearn my thinking patterns, and get to a point that all old negative habits - thinking patterns- are broken and replaced with it's happier much more content counterpart. They say that a habit takes 30 days to take hold- I'm giving this new way of thinking via the law of attraction and gratitude- a whole 365 to take hold. I have a stubborn side and need the extra time!
So here is day two of gratitude. This came easily for me today, when I went outside to retrieve my newspaper from the end of my driveway. I picked it up and then looked around. At the mature foliage, the flowering winter bushes, the neat curb lined streets. The manicured lawns surrounding stately well kept homes. And I thought, "Wow, this is my home." My husband, myself and our four children live in this gated secure golf/swim/tennis planned community. It has rich history, and gorgeous land scape- from expansive marsh views to hundred year old oak tress dripping with Spanish moss.
We can safely ride our bikes, take walks- cruise around for countless miles in our golf cart along the many paved paths exploring this resort like community we live in. I am thankful my children have lived here for twelve years and enjoyed all the beauty and amenities it has to offer. I am thankful that all the events in my life have lead me somehow to this home and to this community.
I like to think I can recreate myself- clean up old personality problems or behaviors that aren't desirable or working in my life anymore. Or maybe those behaviors (habits, idiosyncrasies, traits) never have worked and I finally figured it out. Whatever the case- a new year is a way to rethink my life. To make it better. Learn what works and fix what is not working. Its sounds simple in theory, yet I know it takes some concentrated effort.
I also believe personal improvement it is a lifelong continuous process full of setbacks and false starts- and on the flip side can also have huge success and great happiness too. What I want to do is swing my life into the consistently happy and content side and less on the insecure melancholy side (which has been a perennial pattern for me).
Albeit, overall my life has been -all things said - great so far. Although not devoid of horrendous events. Yet I can easily slip into negative thinking and spiral downward with those thoughts and feel so lost and desolate there. I want to relearn my thinking patterns, and get to a point that all old negative habits - thinking patterns- are broken and replaced with it's happier much more content counterpart. They say that a habit takes 30 days to take hold- I'm giving this new way of thinking via the law of attraction and gratitude- a whole 365 to take hold. I have a stubborn side and need the extra time!
So here is day two of gratitude. This came easily for me today, when I went outside to retrieve my newspaper from the end of my driveway. I picked it up and then looked around. At the mature foliage, the flowering winter bushes, the neat curb lined streets. The manicured lawns surrounding stately well kept homes. And I thought, "Wow, this is my home." My husband, myself and our four children live in this gated secure golf/swim/tennis planned community. It has rich history, and gorgeous land scape- from expansive marsh views to hundred year old oak tress dripping with Spanish moss.
We can safely ride our bikes, take walks- cruise around for countless miles in our golf cart along the many paved paths exploring this resort like community we live in. I am thankful my children have lived here for twelve years and enjoyed all the beauty and amenities it has to offer. I am thankful that all the events in my life have lead me somehow to this home and to this community.
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