Positive Living

When we go to bed each night and close our eyes, we can look back on our day from its start. Going through all our interaction with others during the day. Checking how we performed, how we behaved, could we have unknowingly hurt anyone. Were we able to help someone in need? Did we enjoy our day? We will probably fall asleep half way through that self-examination. It does not matter. What matters is that we exercised our memory and are also willing to take responsibility for our actions.

Upon awakening next morning, we need to remain in bed awhile, open our eyes and our minds, stretch our arms, head, neck, facial muscles, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes. Stretching the head up and away from our shoulders while trying to push our feet and toes downward and away from the body.

This is the best time to think about our aspirations and all the things we naturally enjoy doing. Especially the activities and interests we are drawn to. To think about related situations or achievements we enjoy. What do we already possess to get there? What must we do to meet the deficiencies? Break that list down into steps? We will take the first of those steps on this day. We will want to leap out of bed to get started on our day.

We have other priorities. What we normally do each morning. Have breakfast, enjoy interchanges with the family and prepare for our day. To keep our minds on our plans for the day we must avoid getting side tracked into new things. We must follow through with our plans for the day the same way we would head for an important destination. Staying focused and not deviating from our plans.

It is imperative that we always remain relaxed. Enjoy our day. Do things because we want to, not because we have to. Always in control of our day. There may be emergencies when we need to do otherwise, but when those issues are resolved we must return to our plans for the day. Whatever happens, we know that worrying about an issue will not change it. There are no unsolvable problems, only unrecognized solutions. The impossible is merely an excuse for the lazy and incompetent to give up trying.

Our families are important to us, else we would not be working so hard but it would be a mistake to let our work obsess us. We should stay in touch with our families while we can. Before we know it our children will be grown and we will have missed that pleasure. It would be sad if we had to wait until we were grandparents to enjoy the children, especially our own. That time is now. Children are the future and fresh in outlook. We prolong our youth with them.