Billie
04-29-2006, 07:26 AM
"Optimism is a key ingredient to a healthy lifestyle."
Meditations for Women
It has been a long week at work and I reached the back door last night and my cell phone was ringing--work! The person calling is delightful and knowledgable but new as a supervisor and really needing alot supervision from me. I was exhasted and really didn't want to rehash a meeting earlier in the day at 4:30 on Friday.
As she started talking, I noticed whoa you are being so negative, look at it a different way, reframe your mind into some positives. She rattled on for quite awhile, at a very intense almost manic kind of pace. I put my work folders and purse down on the patio table, sat down, listened and then said, "wait a second here, you are thinking this through with such a negative slant, how about looking at it with some hopefulness or positive steps. We just had a great meeting with a judge who got us into the chief judge for an appointment, what is wrong with that outcome?" But Billie she said, it shouldn't be that hard!!!:confused: With that I thought, oh dear person, life shouldn't be that hard for sure but it is and we can't trip on the negatives, we have to keep moving on the positives.
When I saw this quote this morning, I thought, hmmmmm how much this applies to all of us. It is so easy to get down with the negatives, we forget about all the positive things happening, we forget to be optimistic about the future.
Today I hope we can shine some light on the optimisitic side of eating well and getting healthy, it makes the road so much darn easier to travel.
Hope your Saturday is wonderful, looks like rain in Central Illinois all weekend, being optimisitic about it--great weekend to take in some movies!
Meditations for Women
It has been a long week at work and I reached the back door last night and my cell phone was ringing--work! The person calling is delightful and knowledgable but new as a supervisor and really needing alot supervision from me. I was exhasted and really didn't want to rehash a meeting earlier in the day at 4:30 on Friday.
As she started talking, I noticed whoa you are being so negative, look at it a different way, reframe your mind into some positives. She rattled on for quite awhile, at a very intense almost manic kind of pace. I put my work folders and purse down on the patio table, sat down, listened and then said, "wait a second here, you are thinking this through with such a negative slant, how about looking at it with some hopefulness or positive steps. We just had a great meeting with a judge who got us into the chief judge for an appointment, what is wrong with that outcome?" But Billie she said, it shouldn't be that hard!!!:confused: With that I thought, oh dear person, life shouldn't be that hard for sure but it is and we can't trip on the negatives, we have to keep moving on the positives.
When I saw this quote this morning, I thought, hmmmmm how much this applies to all of us. It is so easy to get down with the negatives, we forget about all the positive things happening, we forget to be optimistic about the future.
Today I hope we can shine some light on the optimisitic side of eating well and getting healthy, it makes the road so much darn easier to travel.
Hope your Saturday is wonderful, looks like rain in Central Illinois all weekend, being optimisitic about it--great weekend to take in some movies!