It's gonna be OKAY.

One week into the new year and I am holding fast to my resolutions - in one form or another!
Some have had surprises in store for me - but all positive, so I am still in a 'go get 'em' mood which is refreshing!!

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Tennyson


We; happy to use the collective here;  have a tendency to place obstacles in the path of progress and change that inhibit and restrict movement and growth. Machiavelli said it so much better than me but I have been doing that for some time too, and know that it is the equivalent of turning into an ostrich, slowly but surely!! Whereas we have lovely beaches here in the Netherlands, I am not sure I want to bury my head in all that white sand any time soon!!

I have also been genuinely wishing that the elephant in the room would just get up and walk out!!! But she didn't show any signs of doing that so I needed to address her and talk to her and 'bite the bullet' good and hard.....and see where that gets me. She is a bloomin' large elephant that's for sure!!!! In a tiny little room, and appearing to be growing daily. At the moment she is still living with me, but she is shrinking because I am not ignoring her any more. Wouldn't go so far as to say we can ever be friends, but hey, having an elephant around is a topic of conversation apparently! ( I am almost through reading "The 100 year old man who climbed out of a room and disappeared.") Read the book to note the significance of this - it is addictive reading!

Where was I? Oh, yes, its Sunday morning and I am supposed to reflect on the past week each Sunday according to my Daily Greatness Journal.
I am beginning to notice things about that that could work better so my plan to give feedback is added to the list of good things to get involved in this year.
My words this week have been: achieve; accept; align and brave.
I achieved something during my coaching at work - which in turn was about acceptance - and I am working on aligning work and life this year so that is ongoing. Yesterday I acted bravely too. I could so easily add foolishly; risky; gamble; doom; but instead I am going to choose to say I am acting bravely; courageously taking my own life in my hands.

"It's gonna be okay".
A mantra to reassure myself when I'm feeling overwhelmed by the creeping sense of impending disaster and the all-emcompassing fears both specified and vague that colonize my mind, body, and soul, all of which, from the completely farfetched to the sometimes probably, do me no good to contemplate and in fact make me miserable, and even though optimism may be un self-aware and ill- placed, I know I'll be happier as a blind fool than as a clairvoyant apocalyptic.

Enjoy your Sunday. I am considering scrapping off the wallpaper in order to work through my angst!!!
Let out some of that worry and fear before it does paralyse me again!!
Sue xx