rebalancing
Well, things have improved quite a bit since Monday.
My girlfriend called Tuesday night, and we’re spending time together again. Work got better Tuesday, and things have just been looking better in general. I got on the scale Tuesday morning, 182.6, down slightly, although this morning it said 184.0.
I’ve been spending much more time the last three days being thankful for what I do have, rather than concentrating on my problems and what I don’t have. I have to tell you, gratitude really does make a huge difference in my perspective on things. Things have actually been up and down at work, solve one problem, another takes its place, or a different comes up that I thought was taken care of. But that’s ok, because I know I can handle it, even though I sometimes wonder about it on the bad days. I’ve noticed that when I don’t attach negative thoughts to issues, they don’t cause nearly as many problems as when I do.
I received an email from Robert Fritz’s website not long ago, he’s written some very good books, of which I have two: The Path of Least Resistance and Your Life as Art. In it, he talks about change and what it takes sustain changes, rather than make resolutions which are bound to fail. His books deal with this subject a lot, but the newsletter was a good reminder exactly when I needed to see it. I put him on par or even better than Paul Graham, whose link appears to the right.
Anyway, suffice it to say I’m doing better, and I’ll be in touch.