Posts by Pat:
Dropping some balls!?
It may be time to drop some balls!
More balls in the air requires more juggling (and often more ball dropping.) When we forget to do something or accidentally drop the ball, we often feel guilty or unworthy. (Both are undesirable and unnecessary feelings!)
What if we intentionally drop or just remove the ball from our juggling act? Maybe it’s no longer important to have that ball up there?
We often mindlessly add things to our lives and rarely subtract without great effort. We could choose to clear away the things that don’t really matter.
Maybe our life seems cluttered, our home messy, our work disorganized, our feelings heavy, or even our thoughts less than kind to ourselves and others.
Let’s ask ourself what balls are most important? Which ones do we want fewer of?
How can we rearrange things to do more of what we want while shedding those activities we want to reduce?
I found that when I consider what I really want more of, my focus is for more feelings of gratitude, clarity, and peace. (And I want to have less whining, internet surfing, clutter, depression.) ( Oh, yes, more fun is on my list of balls to add!)
Why do the things we love to do always seem to be on the bottom of our list?
I, too, waited until I got everything done, until I had worked enough, and had enough time, and therefore rarely got to do what I loved without feeling guilty. How about you?
I love to read, write, do jigsaw puzzles, do ZenTangles, go to concerts, do Tai Chi. And I’ve made them a priority. But I didn’t use to!
Focusing on the essential few ideas that really matter and dropping many of the trivial items that don’t lead to joy and peace makes for personal satisfaction! And I don’t think you even have to be retired to finally “get it!”
7 truisms to smile over!
Some stuff that is true is also funny. Here are seven thoughts for you to mull over! Do you have a favorite you could add to this list? If you are one of those folks like me, who have had many birthdays, I would guess that you could make quite the list of your own!
My mortifying experience at 8 years old!
I was 8 years old when I was on Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say the Darndest Things” radio program and…was mortified by what my family thought was a scripted response, but wasn’t! (don’t ask me how to spell Mississippi…it really did overflow that day! So I can really appreciate (and enjoy) some of the following things […]
A philosophy of “maybe?”
Do you ever find yourself caught in a mental loop of negative thinking? Do your everyway worries sometimes seem to be overwhelming? Can you think of 5 ways something can go wrong instead of right? Instead of thinking just in black and white, positive and negative, good and bad, could you be intrigued with the […]
What’s your definition of life?
If you were to choose your favorite life metaphor, what would it be? Do you agree with Forrest Gump when he said his mother told him that “life is a box of chocolates” because “you never know what you’re going to get”? Or do you prefer the phrase from the 1930’s tune that “life is […]
What we really want!
Here is a shortcut to getting what we really want. (just an example from a former Realtor’s perspective!) What did the mythical client want? Asked about their dream home, they described it. “It’s on a hill, surrounded by tall trees, with a panoramic view.” What feeling does the house give you? “Security.” And the hill? […]
The Opposite of Distraction
What is a “distraction” anyway? We usually think about them being external triggers…notifications on our phone, a honking horn from that car behind us, an ad that reminds us we’re hungry. It’s easy to point fingers at technology, but the most common source of distraction is not what’s happening outside of us. It’s our internal […]
We’re in-between…
I’ve often thought of the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day as an opportunity to reflect back, as well as to refocus ahead to what the coming year could be if I so choose! It’s a time for me (and maybe you?) to reflect on “what’s been” and “what can be.” Life is rather […]
No More Holiday Blues?
In his book “No More Holiday Blues,” Wayne Dyer pointed out the pressure we may have to make it perfect. So is it no wonder we sometimes feel the “blues” and “less than?” Trying to live up to some unrealistic expectations (others or our own) is a recipe for disappointment and frustration. Dyer suggested that […]
A story of the fir tree…
Long, long ago in a country where the winter days are dark and cold, and snow and ice cover the ground, every year as the days grew shorter and the nights grew longer, the people became frightened: what if the summer never came back; what if it stayed cold and dark all the time. There […]