Hello All!

Been a while since I’ve made time to blog. I hesitate to say I failed.I think instead that I didn’t meet my goal. So, I set my goal and try again. My goal was to take time every day to focus on me and work on making my life what I know it can be. And even though I haven’t blogged, I can still see the effects of the work I did.

• I have more positive things to talk about. Working on something everyday kept them in the front of my mind. I was easier to remember the good things in my life. And I was excited to share these things with others. I even thought for a minute that I was in danger of becoming one of those obnoxious happy people 🙂
• I feel happier with the way I look. This was a surprising side effect. I’ve never like photos being taken of me. I always preferred to be on the other side of the camera. Capturing other people’s happiness. And now, with the ability  to post a photo taken of me to social media, I dreaded anyone taking my photo and sharing my hideousness with the world. But I have found myself lately actually wanting to take photos of myself to share. I wanted people to see the happiness I felt of the fun I was having. My selfie skills could still use a little improvement though.
• One outcome that I’m still trying to figure out is, I was inspired to try to do so many things, it was overwhelming. There are so many things I’d like to integrate into my life. Ways to improve it or make myself happier. I want to
  • Spend more time with family and friends
  • Play my violin more
  • Play more SWTOR
  • Keep up with my meds
  • Craft/crochet more
  • Reduce the number of hours I work at home
  • Get to the gym more
  • Get more organized
  • Read more
  • Try more new things
  • and more

But of course, I can’t do all these things. My initial reaction is to “make a plan”, “schedule it out”. But life just doesn’t work that way.

So, how do I move forward? Prioritize. Make small steps toward the life I want. Work to be happy each day. Then if I don’t get to something on my list of wishes and wants, its ok. Because each day was lived. Not just survived. And I still think its a good idea to take time each day to focus on positive action. So back to Life Dailies. We’ll start up next week with a new set of missions.

I leave you with the adorable portrait I commissioned from Mikey Turvey.