Thank YOU

July 6, 2017

Dear You,

Yes, you. Reading this. I’m talking to you. I want to say thank you.

I have no way of knowing who you are, but I can promise you your impact has not gone unnoticed. Even if you are a friend of a friend of a step-family member of my cousin who found this blog by some twist of fate, thank you. You are reading this blog and supporting my passion of writing. You are listening to my words and you are telling me, through page views, that you care what I say. That the world cares about me and cares about what I say to the world around me.

Happy Planner Week of June 26 - July 2

This is good because....

July 2, 2017

I am currently reading (okay, listening to on audiobook) the self-help book titled “You are a Badass”. I absolutely love it, and I highly recommend reading it or listening to it via Audible. It has fantastic positive thinking tips, and regularly intersperses exercises for you to practice what you are learning in the book. One of the exercises I have been trying recently is focused on shifting your mindset and seeing the good in difficult situations.

For this exercise, take a challenging and difficult situation, and reframe it by telling yourself: “This is good because…”

For example, I came down to the cruise ship café on deck 5 for a semi-quiet morning of writing time and maybe some knitting. The café happens to share the same space as the main piazza, which quite unexpectedly and for an unknown reason offered a circus act this morning.

This unexpected and confusing distraction was good because it gave me a really good story to blog about, once the leotard lady descended from the giant metal sphere and the piazza returned to its normal hum. Yes, I got pictures.