Let it go

Most of us have difficulty admitting true feelings, and expressing them to ourselves and to others. We hide our true feelings - sadness, anger, hurt, resentment - by joking, being snobbish, or introverted, or even just ignoring them. Although the defense may be successful at masking the emotions, the hurt and anger remains. Hiding our true feelings and emotions give them power. They are roadblocks to our true joy.

I encourage us all to deal with our feelings and not just lay them aside...talk it out, meditate, pray, read an inspirational text, exercise. The solution depends on the depth and degree of the feelings, of course but whatever you do, deal with them. It is good to get rid of negative feelings that crowd your heart and mind. Fill that space with solutions, lessons, and positive behavior and attitudes. I feel there are too many external stressors in this world - work, finance, school, car, house, etc - for us not to have inner peace, and develop healthy mechanisms to cope.

Life is too lonely in a box with all that negative around you. Get rid of it and open up with a smile!

Music suggestion: Positive Vibration, Bob Marley

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"Say you just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day."

Bob Marley

great weekends

Don't you just hate when you've worked all week on school stuff, work stuff, life stuff, everything and are looking forward to the weekend and it's a bust?! You get into a fuss with your spouse or a friend, or you spend time doing something you'd rather not, or you're sick. Nothing gets to me more. Well, I didn't have one of those *smile*

I feel that a great weekend is the reward for a long, sometimes trying but most times tiring week. This weekend I had great family time, lovely worship, time with friends I hadn't seen in toooooo long, a couple good hair days where my ousted bang made a comeback (lol!) AND a lovely Sunday nap. I am not a daytime sleeper but when I do manage to fall asleep during the daytime, it is always a reward. I must say I did get a parking ticket and I had a run in with a deviant stocking that I bought on Friday and still cannot locate, but the net result was still a fantastic weekend.

Today I'm feeling productive and fresh despite the fact that I'm damp from the rain and was mauled by the 40-plus m.p.h. winds we're having in NYC. I hope and pray my car is not crushed and the lights stay on. The sound the wind is making is scary!

Hope you had a great weekend too! Feel free to share...

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"There aren't enough days in the weekend"
Rod Schmidt

sleep

I'm an early to bed, early to rise kinda gal so when I have work (not to mention school) and I don't get to bed on time, I am off kilter for the rest of the day. I also can't catch up on sleep during the day - I have to be exhausted to get my body to nap. At night, if I don't head to bed at the right time, sometimes my body forces it on me. Yup. I have fallen asleep on a date during a movie (and that's when we just started dating too lol). I won't talk about at home. That I do all the time in the middle of conversations, movies, phone calls.

This morning I had to be on campus at 8:15 am to prep for a course we're launching. Maaaaaan, it is indescribably difficult to get myself up and going early. I need to negotiate with myself and motivate myself to get moving. Took me 30 mintues a.k.a. 3 snoozes to get up.

This is the main reason I know I am not a 9 to 5 person. I like coming into the office and working on my own schedule. Sometimes I like 7 am, sometimes I don't feel like moving till 11 am, and sometimes I just want to stay home and work. Which is why I am in school doing a 2nd masters. I need some flexibility in the future.

*2 thumbs up* for a full night's rest