build your beautiful self

It is amazing to me sometimes when I think about what drives people in life.

Take yesterday for example. It was my daughter’s birthday so we took a little time out to take her to do what she wanted to do. We were together and she was happy! We came home from the activities to find that someone had dumped 3 van benches in our driveway along with a used tire! Seriously? What would make you think that my driveway is a dumping site for your crap?? I don’t even have a dumpster!

That lead me to think, why our house and what goes through people’s minds? I guess our house is closest to the corner and people felt they could get away with it and get away quickly. No one happened to be home either so no one saw them do it.

Que Sera I guess.

That one negative item led to more irritation and issue however. I am remorseful that I let someone’s bad decision and obviously bad life circumstance bring the highlight reel of negative feelings to the surface. It never stops once it gets going! This morning as I reflect, I am somber at the fact that I am still stuck in that mindset. I work hard to build positivity and embrace the abundance in my life.

My healthy family. I all of a sudden have a few friends in a not so healthy place and they are my age! 😥

My husband who is always by my side and loves me but I sometimes take for granted and yet he still loves me and is always by my side.

My life and health. There are times I fly out of the bed and want to take on the world and there are other times where I don’t want the sun to come up. (welcome to frustration and icky feelingness)

My pets that make me laugh on the daily

The fact that I have a car to drive, and a business to work on, and people who love me, and challenges to overcome, and the ability to reinvent my life with every breath I take.

So much to be grateful for. So many thanks to give but yet I let stupid little things bring up the swell of negative. So this morning I did something different. I searched for a mentor. I am reading through posts about people who have been hired by peers and what they got out of it. I read the blogs of the people I am interested in. I came across this statement from Steve Jobs. I have to leave this post with that quote for today, I need to soul search and there isn’t a whole lot of benefit you will receive from this post other than that I am afraid. Thank you for reading! Sorry today isn’t sunshine and rainbows and diet and workouts. Everyone has down days, and maybe knowing that helps you too!

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

– Steve Jobs at the Stanford University commencement address in 2005