Posts by Pat:
First Day or Last Day of Your Life?
How best can you optimize your day today? There’s one school of thought that suggests you view today as the first day of the rest of your life. With a clean slate and no past regrets, worries, or angst you can move forward unencumbered with the garbage of your yesterdays.
Truly, releasing any energy on the past enables us to gather our thoughts, feelings and actions to make this day the best day of our life. Not a goal to be sneezed at!
Still, there’s the school of thought that says to look at today as the last day of your life, for it may well be. And if it were the last day, what would you want to spend it doing? Who would you want to spend it with? What words would you want to say?
What are you waiting for?
With either choice, the quality of the day would be improved. So we can focus on the gratitude for what we are able to accept this day. And we can take action on the creative ideas that come from looking forward. we are blessed either way!
Or we can view our life so far with all of its gifts received (if not yet acknowledged!) and know that we have this day. We can make amends, acknowledge the gifts, share our feelings and gratitude with loved ones. We can then accept the peace that comes from knowing that we have had the blessings of life-having lived, having loved, and having had something to contribute, whatever it may have been.
So…
Take this day, make your choice, and live your life, fully, richly, peacefully, and lovingly. Either choice is better than no choice and just going through the day unaware.
It’s all up to you!
Eeyore got a bad rap!
It’s a never ending battle between the optimists and the pessemists as exemplified with Tigger and Eeyore of “Winnie the Pooh” fame!
Have you ever taken pride in your position on this? I know I had taken pride in being upbeat and Tigger-like in contrast to the gloomy negative folks like Eeyore that I ran into.
Folks would accuse me of being a Pollyanna and unrealistic and said it was annoying to be around someone who’s unfailingly cheerful, with me never acknowledging that the glass might be half-empty rather than half-full.
And they didn’t like me trying to convince them that things weren’t “that bad” or to “look on the bright side.” The more I tried to change their minds, the more they dug in their heels.
And that’s when “I got it!”
Eeyores may well seem so negative because we Tiggers push them into it. We want them to change-to be happy and positive. And yet we know that when we are pushed, we too resist and dig in our heels.
Do we use too much Tigger in order to mask our real feelings that need addressing? And do we risk too much Eeyore which can put us in a serious state of depression?
Yet both the Eeyores and the Tiggers of the world believe that their point of view is more socially valuable, more thoughtful, and more realistic than the others.We all tend to think that our way is the “best” way.
So…are you an Eeyore or a Tigger? And do you have a suggestion on how to create balance? Maybe how to be a bit more Pooh? I’d love to hear from you!
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One of Life’s Paradoxes
Taking off our blinders, opening up to all the possiblilities that exist around us…It’s mind-boggling, isn’t it?
The peace and serenity at our center is often hard to experience with all our daily busyness and clutter. Let’s explore our paradoxes, our inspirations, and our choices to create the life we desire.