Jump for Joy!
Hello there,
Hope your Tuesday was amazing and your Wednesday is even better! How's that for a welcome? Coffee, tea? Put your feet up, we got some happy stuff to discuss today.
You know, we just don't have those high highs like we used to (noooo....I am NOT referring to the 1960's thankyouverymuch....) Ok then.... I mean those happy moments that we experienced when we were kids. Yes, I realize that we have a TON of responsibility on our shoulders as adults including family (kids and aging parents) pets, employment (not liking your job or not having one), health issues, expenses, etc. However, we really need to slow down (YES, I AM speaking to YOU) and take a breather.
Life isn't the big race that many people seem to be running every day. It is a journey that is meant to be savoured each minute. How many times have you travelled to work, only to realize that you barely remember the trip! Me too, I used to do it all the time. Scary when you think that I walk for most of it!
You get into a routine, look forward to the weekend because THAT (as you tell yourself) is when you can SLEEP! Of course, the weekend shows up, you end up racing around doing errands and chores, and whammo, we're back at Monday morning.
Depressed yet? Hope not. This is just a wake-up call and we all need those now and then.
Ok, then, we should take a step back here for a minute. Like the idea of starting a new project when you feel you barely have enough time to complete the ones that have been on your list forever. When you're rushing from one thing to the next, you not only miss out on smelling the roses BUT miss the roses completely!
We need to have joyful moments in our life to enchance our world. They are out there. Truly!
We've talked before about remembering our favourite childhood joys - mine was that blue mustang bike with the navy sparkly banana seat, and fab handle bars with the white fringed handles. *swoons*. I also loved seeing animals (zoo visits were a must), going to the movies and getting lost in a great story, and listening to my 45 records or cassettes. Ah cassettes huh? Remember when you used to tape your favourite songs and waited FOREVER for them to be played on the radio? Who didn't enjoy a mixed tape?! I'd sit there, clutching my CHUM chart, and waiting for the top 20 to be played.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that many of your happiest memories as a kid would make you just as happy today.
For today, I would like it if you could write down a list of 10 things that used to bring you joy in the past and see if your heart sings when you write them now. Be prepared to smile!
Linda
Hope your Tuesday was amazing and your Wednesday is even better! How's that for a welcome? Coffee, tea? Put your feet up, we got some happy stuff to discuss today.
You know, we just don't have those high highs like we used to (noooo....I am NOT referring to the 1960's thankyouverymuch....) Ok then.... I mean those happy moments that we experienced when we were kids. Yes, I realize that we have a TON of responsibility on our shoulders as adults including family (kids and aging parents) pets, employment (not liking your job or not having one), health issues, expenses, etc. However, we really need to slow down (YES, I AM speaking to YOU) and take a breather.
Life isn't the big race that many people seem to be running every day. It is a journey that is meant to be savoured each minute. How many times have you travelled to work, only to realize that you barely remember the trip! Me too, I used to do it all the time. Scary when you think that I walk for most of it!
You get into a routine, look forward to the weekend because THAT (as you tell yourself) is when you can SLEEP! Of course, the weekend shows up, you end up racing around doing errands and chores, and whammo, we're back at Monday morning.
Depressed yet? Hope not. This is just a wake-up call and we all need those now and then.
Ok, then, we should take a step back here for a minute. Like the idea of starting a new project when you feel you barely have enough time to complete the ones that have been on your list forever. When you're rushing from one thing to the next, you not only miss out on smelling the roses BUT miss the roses completely!
We need to have joyful moments in our life to enchance our world. They are out there. Truly!
We've talked before about remembering our favourite childhood joys - mine was that blue mustang bike with the navy sparkly banana seat, and fab handle bars with the white fringed handles. *swoons*. I also loved seeing animals (zoo visits were a must), going to the movies and getting lost in a great story, and listening to my 45 records or cassettes. Ah cassettes huh? Remember when you used to tape your favourite songs and waited FOREVER for them to be played on the radio? Who didn't enjoy a mixed tape?! I'd sit there, clutching my CHUM chart, and waiting for the top 20 to be played.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that many of your happiest memories as a kid would make you just as happy today.
For today, I would like it if you could write down a list of 10 things that used to bring you joy in the past and see if your heart sings when you write them now. Be prepared to smile!
Linda
1.) music
2.) falling asleep in an air-conditioned room in the one warm spot of sun.
3.) the house on stilts that we lived in when we went to the beach, with the room that was all windows, where I slept with a friend.
4.) Spending the day high at Great Falls.
5.) concerts
6.) watching Leslie Stahl at midnight on some news show and wanting to be her when I grew up
7.) Michael J. Fox
8.) frosting from a can
9.) pop tarts
10.) writing poetry
I was already smiling, but I smiled extra big at some of these memories.
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Fab list LFM. #1, 5, 8, and 9 would all be on my list too! Also writing letters to my penpals, playing with Monty - the little doggy who lived across the street, hanging out with my pal Kim on her farm with all the barn cats, and dancing to the latest music on our driveway (with the record playing blasted behind me).
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