All That Noise
The daily reading from the book speaks on tuning out from the negative things that occur all day in our lives. It suggests that we step away from the tv news, the papers, and such. In a way, shut out the static that continuously bombards us with tales of despair and turmoil.
I think this is what I was trying to address the other day.
It seems as though a post or article about something joyous or uplifting hardly gets a glance, let alone a comment, as compared to a post or article about a tragedy or heartache or loss, which most times draws a great deal of attention in views and comments. It really must be our nature to dwell on the downside. Why is that? Are we really that conditioned to shun the upbeat, upside, smiles? Why is that?
The other underlying message in the reading today talks about ignoring people’s opinions and focusing inward. Which is what I will have to do. At the beginning of this writing, I wondered if anyone would even be interested to read a post like this, let alone an entire blog dedicated to changing an outlook from dismal to joyful. I suppose my lesson here is, it doesn’t matter. I will have to focus on my writing and what it does for me. If getting it all out here helps me to turn off the nagging blahs and helps to turn on the whoo hoo’s…then all is well.
Today, we had a late start job. Which really is mentally hard to keep up with. Most times, our end time is around 2 or 3, and today we were just getting started at that time. The difference in the schedule affected the flow of the day…but here are the upsides to that.
1. It was a very calm and well thought out morning. We had a lot of time to be sure to get things together and plan for the days events.
2. I got to eat lunch at home. I got to make something that I wanted instead of not being here when it was lunchtime.
3. We drove over the H3 with virtually no traffic. Both ways, because of the time, we avoided a LOT of traffic.
4. The client’s cat talked to me…many many meows…and even licked my hand. 🙂 Always good when their cat digs you!
5. We’ve planned a really well thought out kitchen island. It will really go easily tomorrow when we put it all together. Spending the time today to really adjust some things will make tomorrow smooth sailing.
Imagine, this list, in its simplicity…may seem very ho hum to you, but I have made sure that each of these have got a full whoo hoo today…and I feel really lucky and happy to be able to see each of these for the joy that they brought today.
smiles,
alicia in Hawaii