Posts by Pat:
Your “Ta-Da” list!
Before stressing over your 2018 “To-Do” list, use this time of the year to create your “Ta-Da” list! It’s much more fun…
If it seems like you are always too busy, on overload, scattered and ineffective, then take this opportunity to change your feelings by changing your perspective.
Look back at your week. When you are braver you can look at this last month, and (gasp!) even the whole year and make a list of what you really did.
Maybe it was just baby steps towards your massive goal, but instead of feeling like you were just treading water you can feel like you were making progress. You were kicking the ball further down the road.
Maybe you didn’t get all the closets cleared out, but you
- got one of them started,
- found that missing scarf you love, and
- started a bag of things to take to Goodwill.
Ta-Da!
Acknowledging the steps you’ve accomplished feels good and feeling good about your list and life is awesome!
What if one of your 2017 projects was to “get in shape” and you aren’t there? Well, what did you do?
Did you…
- start parking your car further and further away from the store and thus got more walking in?
- share that box of chocolates you got with the staff at work instead of eating it all yourself?
- try a new salad at the restaurant instead of just ordering your usual cheeseburger?
Give yourself credit and pat yourself on the back!
Celebration is positive reinforcement and we need all we get.
Yah…you can do it!
Daily life can throw us some curves and it doesn’t always (sometimes/ever?) go as planned. But…it is wonderful to wake up each morning, to be alive and see all the possibilities in our new day.
All that has happened to us, all the gifts and challenges, opportunities and seeming setbacks has brought us to this day.
Have you ever done a “Ta-Da” list?
How did it make you feel?
The weight of a snowflake
Enjoy this winter parable! “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a sparrow asked a wild dove. “Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer. “In that case I must tell a marvelous story,” the sparrow said. “I sat on a branch of a fir tree, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not […]
A holiday bucket list…
A revised Christmas bucket list… BUY PRESENTS (be present!) WRAP GIFTS (wrap someone in a hug) SEND GIFTS (send love) SHOP FOR FOOD (donate food) MAKE COOKIES ( make memories) SEE THE LIGHTS (be the light) Blessings to everyone this holiday season!
The Christmas Spider Legend…
There are many different versions of the folk legend dealing with Christmas spiders from the Ukraine and Germany. In each case the association with spiders and their webs and our Christmas tree tinsel is delightful! (Also, the fact that spiders may seem small and insignificant but, in fact, are important is also a concept to […]
Some more word play!
Here’s a lighthearted look at some more word play! Would you like to join..? ANSWER: The Peter Pan Club? Never Never The Ford-Nixon Club? Pardon me? The Alzheimer’s Club? […]
Full vs. Enough
One of the lessons of Thanksgiving is that we eat too much! We eat until we’re full, experiencing the sensation of too much. We confuse our desire for that feeling of ‘full,’ with the feeling of ‘enough.’ Even though enough doesn’t feel like full, could’t we make that be okay? Black Friday teaches us […]
Story of two brothers
Two brothers grew up and worked together on the family farm. One married and had a large family. The other was single. At the day’s end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit. Then one day the single brother said to himself, “It’s not right that we should share equally the produce and the […]
Ain’t English fun?
Let’s face it: Sometimes our English language can be downright bizarre. The plural of ox is oxen while the plural of box is boxes, ‘rough’ rhymes with ‘gruff, even though the two words only have two letters in common, and there are actually more than nine hundred exceptions to the infamous ‘i before e except […]
What is time to you?
We’re not really “saving daylight.” We’re just shifting our perception of it! Time isn’t really a thing. It is really nothing but a viewpoint. It is an idea. It’s a linear measure of an experience. It’s recollection of the past, attention in the present, anticipation of the future. After all, we all know that the […]
7 Life Lessons from Carving Pumpkins!
It’s practically Halloween. Schools will have parties, Trick-or-Treaters will out in droves seeking candy, and Jack-o-Lanterns will be decorating porches around the town. The question is, as you carved your pumpkin, did you realize how many of the secrets to success in life are wrapped in that large orange oval? Here’s some of what I […]