If you’re a parent you’ll know what I mean when I say that some of the pep talks I’ve given my kids get given back to me when I need them!
No doubt this will be one. And that’s good! It means they’re listening in and… heaven knows, I do need reminders!
To start, a few questions:
How do you feel when you get your kitchen drawers cleaned and orderly?
When the pile that’s been driving you to distraction is sorted and decided upon and gone?
Or, how do you feel when you realize, that instead of beating yourself up for a perceived failure that might have depressed you for a week a few years ago, you have automatically given yourself kudos for trying and committed to keep trying? Wow!
It feels great!
It’s liberating!
It’s the feeling of winning and accomplishing and conquering!
If you aren’t feeling that way pretty regularly, what is a problem or job you could pull apart, decide upon, attack and finish today? (Even if it’s ‘just’ putting the folded laundry away, do it! It’ll give you the feeling of finishing and lead to other finishing tomorrow!)
Being fierce in the face of our daily problems turns that sluggish, overwhelmed, tired feeling into an air-punching, celebration kind of feeling!
And, I submit that when we attack problems that are ours, we are less likely to attack people. We also lose the compelling notion to control other people when we are taking care of our own stuff. Attack problems, not people.
I’m rootin’ for you today! You are doing great things (even if they feel small) with great love. That’s the ticket!
Jacque
P.S. “The older sets are the easiest to fix: simpler circuitry, uniform tubes. Maybe it’s wax dripping from the condenser or charcoal built up on a resistor. Even in the newest sets, Werner can usually puzzle out a solution. He dismantles the machine, stares into its circuits, lets his fingers trace the journeys of electrons. Power source, triode, resistor, coil. Loudspeaker. His mind shapes itself around the problem, disorder becomes order, the obstacle reveals itself, and before long the radio is fixed.” All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr