Today is a great day! It is brand new and full of possibilities. I was reminded first thing this morning of the importance of the joy and the gift in each challenge and that we should slow down to make sure we are being intentional with our time.
Yesterday I saw the beauty though in very short bursts of each of my children and both of them together. It is a huge flashing light of how much they are growing up and how our time will quickly be consumed in so many other ways beyond just playing together. I will do my best to be intentional with my time and pay attention to the things around me that fill me up and fill them up so we are engulfed. This is the greatest gift I can give my children, my husband and myself!
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Monday, August 6, 2018
Softening to Life
Today I will celebrate each time I soften when my first instinct is to harden
What a great challenge for me! I tend to be a perfectionist and a person who doesn’t like to rock the boat. Don’t annoy people, don’t act up, make sure you behave yourself...all to avoid conflict and drawing negative attention to yourself. But here is the issue with no negative attention, it needs to be there to balance out the positive. If you don’t allow for some of the negatives, some of the lows then you don’t learn about making the positive actions or worse yet, the lows become all bundled up and go really low.
I am going to start softening to the lows for myself and those beside me so there is room to balance out. As the book put it to eye all of the colors so they. Might take my breath away. A softer voice, a softer approach...it will allow time and room for the lows. It will also add room for personality and connection and authenticity. I am not perfect and neither is anyone else. We are all here to grow and become our best selves. So am going to take a softer approach to let that person shine and fail and be ok with whatever shows up because I know it will be on the path to better and take my breath away.
What a great challenge for me! I tend to be a perfectionist and a person who doesn’t like to rock the boat. Don’t annoy people, don’t act up, make sure you behave yourself...all to avoid conflict and drawing negative attention to yourself. But here is the issue with no negative attention, it needs to be there to balance out the positive. If you don’t allow for some of the negatives, some of the lows then you don’t learn about making the positive actions or worse yet, the lows become all bundled up and go really low.
I am going to start softening to the lows for myself and those beside me so there is room to balance out. As the book put it to eye all of the colors so they. Might take my breath away. A softer voice, a softer approach...it will allow time and room for the lows. It will also add room for personality and connection and authenticity. I am not perfect and neither is anyone else. We are all here to grow and become our best selves. So am going to take a softer approach to let that person shine and fail and be ok with whatever shows up because I know it will be on the path to better and take my breath away.
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