Junebug decided to sleep nine hours straight last night! I woke up and pumped, made coffee and put on Netflix. It's the little things I tell ya. Just that twenty minutes I had to myself put me in the best mood and it was a huge reminder to switch my focus.
So often I get wrapped up in thinking about what I need to do, what's not working, what needs improvement, that I forget to acknowledge all the progress I've made. I forget to remember just how good I have it.
I do this with everything.... Family, work, health. I am constantly finding something wrong with something or someone, mostly with myself. If I spent more energy focusing on all the progress I have made or all the amazing fits of laughter I share with my hubby, life would be that much better. Could you imagine having to come home to that every day? I'm definitely no Georgia peach.... More like a rotten apple!
It's those little moments that make me realize I need to check myself (before I wreck myself, of course). Like when my daughter gazes up at me during a feeding and smiles. That just about knocks me off my feet. Or when I take a minute out of my day to buy one of the homeless people in our community lunch. Heck, even a solid twenty minute shower without the soundtrack of a baby crying will do it! Switch the focus, change the conversation.
It isn't just about fake it till you make it or not complaining. It's about truly recognizing the good. It's about emitting love and happiness so that it comes back to you in abundance. It's about coming from a place of compassion and empathy and hoping that someone will do the same for you. I know a lot of people may read this and laugh it off, seeing me as one of those tree hugging hippies. But those hippies seem to be pretty happy... So maybe they're on to something.
Thoughts? Comments? Complaints? ;)
Feel free to chime in!
So often I get wrapped up in thinking about what I need to do, what's not working, what needs improvement, that I forget to acknowledge all the progress I've made. I forget to remember just how good I have it.
I do this with everything.... Family, work, health. I am constantly finding something wrong with something or someone, mostly with myself. If I spent more energy focusing on all the progress I have made or all the amazing fits of laughter I share with my hubby, life would be that much better. Could you imagine having to come home to that every day? I'm definitely no Georgia peach.... More like a rotten apple!
It's those little moments that make me realize I need to check myself (before I wreck myself, of course). Like when my daughter gazes up at me during a feeding and smiles. That just about knocks me off my feet. Or when I take a minute out of my day to buy one of the homeless people in our community lunch. Heck, even a solid twenty minute shower without the soundtrack of a baby crying will do it! Switch the focus, change the conversation.
It isn't just about fake it till you make it or not complaining. It's about truly recognizing the good. It's about emitting love and happiness so that it comes back to you in abundance. It's about coming from a place of compassion and empathy and hoping that someone will do the same for you. I know a lot of people may read this and laugh it off, seeing me as one of those tree hugging hippies. But those hippies seem to be pretty happy... So maybe they're on to something.
Thoughts? Comments? Complaints? ;)
Feel free to chime in!
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