Let’s see if I can really accomplish my goal.
From the time I woke up this morning until I go to sleep tonight, I am going to try and choose joy.
I have noticed that especially during the week, I can get wrapped up in world affairs and go down that rabbit hole of sharing my thoughts and venting.
But maybe today just for my waking hours, I will really make an effort of not going there.
For example, I did the NYT Wordle and my other Wordle game on my phone early today. I got both words on the second try. Score !!
I am looking forward to my bagel with whipped cream cheese and tomato for breakfast.
Oh and my coffee with pumpkin spice creamer too!
I will be keeping an eye on the football scores to see how well I do in the football pool this week. Last week, Jenn and I tied for first place! How we did it? LOL I have no idea !
I am going to try and find things to watch on TV that make me laugh.
I am going to take a nice hot shower.
I am going to start looking for ideas for Christmas gifts and decorations (no, I am not putting them up yet).
I am going to look in my cookbooks for some new soup recipes for the fall. I love soup!
I am awaiting the arrival of the book “Making Your Home A Haven” for an online Bible Study with some of my sister’s friends.
I am happy that we have had a mild hurricane season (so far).
It makes me feel good that last night I chose to eat grapes for dessert.
All small things but each does make my heart and head happy.
And none of them cost a lot which is another plus.
I wanted to challenge myself to try and not complain or be negative or judge-mental. What good does that do anyone?
I also finally felt I had something worth writing about that you wouldn’t mind reading.
Sometimes I write to stay disciplined, as it can be easy to let one week, then two weeks and on fly by and not have written a word.
Today, I felt I at least had something to write and share that was worthy of a few minutes of your time.
I know I will not be perfect as I try and stay on the positive road for at least today but I need to try. I have found myself too easily saying negative things when they really weren’t necessary.
I can find joy in seeing pictures of family and friends grandchildren.
I can find joy in looking at friends vacation photos.
I can find joy in laughing at something that tickles my funny bones.
I can celebrate remembering what time it is when I just looked at my watch 30 seconds ago,
If I am successful today, maybe I will try again tomorrow.
I can’t promise I will stop my daily venting about world affairs. I never said I was perfect.
But maybe just maybe, I will be able to tolerate the fact that I feel like the world has been turned upside down and every rule I have tried to live by has been thrown out the window.
But for this day, this hour, this minute, this second, I will look out the window at the sunshine which has started to break through and not complain about the heat.
I will think back and smile at being woken up during the night to the sounds of a rain storm that went on for quite a while. It was a lovely sound.
Looking ahead, tomorrow I will wake up with a list of things to do for work. I will count myself lucky to have a job that I enjoy as much as I do.
See, it’s working already.
I am already joyful about something tomorrow.
Let’s see if I can catch myself before I go to the dark/negative side and instead turn it into something positive.
I have already made it through three hours, only 12-13 more hours to get though.
It might be a tall order but it’d worth try.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Until then, seek joy.
See you next week!
