Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight

Okay that didn't go well...

Do you ever have great intentions that fall by the wayside?  Yes...like that!

That was me yesterday.  I was going to pay attention to all the colors in my world.  Lasted until I got out the door and got caught up in life. But here is the point I missed.  That is life!  Paying attention...taking note.

It's what gives life is width and breath. Today I will do it.  Pay attention to the colors in my life.  See what my world looks like.  I shall report back tomorrow :)

Today really look around your world.

I took Pumpkin, the wonder dog, outside this morning and as she decided exactly which was the spot she wanted to do her business (which on any given day can take a verrry long time)...I just looked around.

There was a bright red cardinal sitting at the very top of a large green pine tree against a very blue sky.  Simply beautiful...as I watched a plane went by leaving a stream of white.

Color was everywhere. I decided today was a very fine day to pay attention to the colors in my life.  On this first day of August...what my friend will you be paying attention to?

I have missed you!

My life is an evolution...that is what I must have signed up for this time around.  Nothing stays the same for very long.

As I have been working though the latest rounds of shifts and turns I stopped writing.  Not sure why.  I just did.  But I woke up this morning missing it with my whole heart.

And that I can do something about... :)

Ever wake up wanting to be someone else?

You know that moment when you think...wow I would trade anything to be _____.  Ever have that kind of moment?

I did this morning.  It honesty doesn't happen very often but today it did.  Got me thinking then...why?  Why would I trade all my life experiences for someone else's?

I think we all at some point want to believe someone else has found the key.  The answer.  That someone else has figured it all out and is not filled on days with doubt and fear.

Facts are we all have days like that.  No one gets it right all the time. 

The better belief is that everyone works through their stuff at their own pace. Do some folks get a "leg up" ?  Sure that's life.

But in the end it's really I think about using what we each have to make our own contributions...in our own way. Maybe taking "things" as inspiration from others like traits we admire ...but making our own way to who we are. Not a reflection of someone else.

When you have lost your way...I think it's better to sit tight for awhile.

In real life search and rescue operations and in the ones in the movies it appears to me that the one looking to be found would be better off of they just sat tight.  You know...rather than wandering aimlessly in the forest looking for a way out.

It seems like the searchers always come across evidence of where the lost one had been.  I am always thinking...Sit tight!  Sit tight!  Help is on the way....

But what happens when you are lost and no one knows it?  You have lost your way but no one has mounted a search party because ...well... you are actually right in front of them and they cannot tell you have lost your way!

Welcome to my world right now.  The other day I asked myself "how many times does one have to start over?"  The answer came back in a millisecond..."as many times as it takes!"

So here I go again.

I have been sitting tight for several weeks trying to find some footing.  Looks like I am getting ready to mount my own rescue.  The good news is I know exactly where I am.

The first of a thousand brave steps...ready?

Seth Godin has a great blog.  Sometimes long pieces...most of the time not. But usually I find myself thinking about a line or two he has written...which I take as a sign of good writing.

Today he wrote about taking a thousand brave steps.  Everyone wants instant success.  Instant fame. Instant relationships.  Instant everything.  But the facts are most things don't happen in an instant. 

They happen over time as you move forward one brave step at a time towards the life you say you want.

I think the steps are brave because sometimes it is easier to quit.  I think sometimes it's easier to settle.  I think sometimes it's easier to listen to everyone around you who says you can't or shouldn't. 

So when you do take a step towards what you say you want...it is brave.  Brave for you and your dreams.  The life you say you want.

So today be brave for you.  Take the first brave step towards what you want.  I am on the same path...maybe different dream but the same path.  So you are not alone...and I have packed snacks so we will both be okay. :)

 

No sense leaving a trail of bread crumbs...

That's my thought this morning.  No sense of leaving a trail of bread crumbs like Hansel and Gretel did if you don't want to go back the way you came!

For the last five years I have been on a journey.  Quite the journey I might add.  More than once I like to kid myself into thinking the past was easier. I find myself living there every once in awhile. 

It had it's challenges to be sure but at least it was a known.  This travel on a path that I have never traveled before can make you winded on the best of days...

But that's where I find myself. Moving ahead...some days more quicker than other days. 

My moving in the last month to a different living space has really taken its toll and I am looking for grounding once again.  More changes ... more adjustments. 

My goal is to meet them with grace.  It's a goal my friend...not always my reality. LOL

But what I realized this morning is there is no going back.  What was... was.  This is now.  No sense in leaving a trail of bread crumbs so I can go backwards. The magic is ahead...not behind. :)

Please feel free to remind of that if I look like I am going to drop some crumbs!

When do you get a "do over"?

Every single day my friend, every single day.

Truly you get to start over every time you wake up.  It's a new day...fresh.  Full of potential and all things that are good.

We have all had the other kind of days.  The days that feel full of lack. 

That's why it is so important to embrace each new day...because they are so ripe with everything we say we want.  It's up to us to go embrace that new day for want it is.  A grand "do over" if we want it.

You need a pencil, tape or dental floss...I got ya covered!

Jean's mini mart is open for business!  OMG  I have enough pencils and tape to outfit a small community!  Honestly...

And what is with the dental floss?  I must have enough to keep my teeth clean and sparkling for life.  :)

Here's what I think...when you work a zillion hours it is easy to lose track of things.  You forget what you have ... and  you just picked up what you need at the store when what you may need is in the third drawer down in your own home.

Lesson learned. I am taking the time with this move to unpack the boxes and stock my shelves. I know one thing...the folks at the store will miss me 'cause I think it will be quite awhile before I need to buy anything from them.

 Dental floss anyone?  :)

May is a month for movement and so it has been.

I said May would be my month for movement!  Good lord...more like being in blender on puree'!

I have moved to a new home...been disconnected from the internet for almost three weeks and got addicted to that crazy game Candy Crush!  I am hoping there is a twelve step program for that last one!

My move went well considering I have enough stuff for a family of twenty five! Honestly I am focused this time on sharing my good fortune with others.  There are some short women who will soon have many clothes to go through because it's time to let things find their way to new homes.

If you don't believe in angels...

you have not met the people who helped me move!

Moving gives one the chance to either start over...like things are new or just continue on the way you have been. 

I choose new start. 

Organized, focused, grateful and moving forward. May indeed is a month for movement and it's all good. Very good indeed.