What do you do when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
— Dr. Seuss
Some days it doesn’t take much to steal away your morning cheer. (Yeah, yeah, that’s IF you had any to begin with – some of us just wake up grumpy … something about morning does that to us.) In a recent Family Circus comic strip the Mom wakes up with a glorious stretch and a song in her heart only to be bombarded by:
- My throat hurts… cough, cough.
- We’re out of milk.
- Your cell phone battery is dead!
- The toilet’s backed up.
- More bad news from DC…
And so slumps her mood, from glad to sad… down, down, down into a grumpy, grayness in what, a nano second? Ta-da! Gloom rules.
Why Dump the Slump?
Some of you may be asking, “Why would I want to dump a perfectly good grumpy slump???” Because glad makes the day dance, projects march and helpers help. It greases the skids, primes the pump, makes tasks easy as pie, carries the day, charms the birds out of the trees… Oh heck, do it because I say so!
How Shall We Dump ’Em?
(First we kill them with clichés!) Continue reading » Ellie’s Three Stepper Slump-Dumper
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
— Seneca
Remember that commercial – “Is it real or is it Memorex?” They would usually have an opera singer hitting a really high note and breaking a glass and then play the recording of the singer and break another glass. It was a way to show the true fidelity of the recording.
I’ve been noticing how much we, as a society, have been talking about our troubles. Have you noticed? We talk about what bothers us more than we talk about what pleases us. There’s been a lot of conversation about how bad things are economically and how the Baby Boomers won’t have the retirement that they expected. It seems that we’re on a perpetual downer around here. The conclusion that I’ve reached is that somehow, we’ve decided that problems aren’t part of life, which is why we get soooo bent out of shape when a problem turns up.
I blame it on the Declaration of Independence. Continue reading » Is It Adversity or Is It Life?
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Today I invite you to turn on your sound, click play on the following YouTube video and hum along, let the video play in the background while you read on…
I was really pleased when Ellie used a picture of Eeyore on her post because I’ve always liked Eeyore. I guess that’s because he was soooo gray that he seemed funny to me. I never really thought of him as being depressed or depressing. He was so extreme that he was endearing, though I wouldn’t actually want to have to work or live with him.
Continue reading » Morphing Into Persistent Perseverance While Looking for Many Right Answers
What habitual reactions help you?
According to Wikipedia, habits are routines of behavior that tend to occur subconsciously and are repeated regularly. That seems like a good description of a habit and I’m going to add to it. I think habits are routines of behavior and thought that tend to occur subconsciously and are repeated regularly. Subconscious thoughts are thoughts that are there but that we don’t give them our attention. I am suggesting that we don’t pay enough attention to our thoughts and how we talk to ourselves.
Continue reading » Play It Again, Sam
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