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Thursday, October 17, 2019
What Gets You Through Your Days?
Laughter!
So I have a friend who has kept me company via text this week. Ironically he’s away too, so it is nice to have someone to talk to who is out of their routine at the same time as you.
I am getting ready for a really big work dinner that I coordinated. At an awesome steakhouse. I take a picture of my outfit and send to him and he responds you look like a zebra Snuggie and sends me the picture.
I have to tell you all night it made me laugh. I didn’t change. I loved the fact I looked a bit silly. I loved the fact he was so quick to make me laugh even if it was at the expense of my outfit.
Others may be self conscious, nope, not me. Of course he said he was joking and I looked great but it really make me laugh all night and I loved it. Of course next time I see him I plan on wearing this and maybe will send him a Snuggie just to amuse him.
Laughter is what gets us through the day. Laughter heals us. Laughter takes away stress and anxiety. Try it. Try laughing. It does wonders.
Change...This Is Important
At first chaos. Pain. Heartache. Sadness. All occur and then transformation begins. It’s amazing.
Honor it. Welcome it. Embrace it. Love the Change!
Who Is This Girl?
What if I told you I never traveled alone before?
This year was about me. Not being selfish but about finding. Loving. Changing. Accepting. Motivating. ME.
To be better. To look within and see my flaws to accept them and to change them. To have more patience. To have a calm enough brain to be able to process things.
To Stop. Think. Process. And then react. Not the other way around. Which I will admit I have done for a while until I learned. To be able to know that a lot can change. That you don’t have to be what people think you should be. That heartache is real. That you can let go of someone even if you love them. That time does heal. That you are one of a kind. That you shouldn’t change for anyone but yourself!
So yes. It’s true. I never traveled alone. I always traveled with my family, parents, ex husband, kids, sisters, relatives, cousins, best friends or friends.
But this week I did. I finally traveled alone. And I won’t say I prefer it but I will say it was empowering. I had my own hotel room all week. I took transportations to airport and back alone.
Sounds silly but a year or two ago I wasn’t the same girl. Two years ago I was a stay at home mom
who worked 3-4 days maybe 12-15 hours a week. I couldn’t survive on that now. I had to change. I started saying yes more to situations I would avoid. I started to have the “why not just go with it” approach.
So yes. I traveled alone for work. But I then took myself out to Downtown Disneyland alone. I ate dinner at the bar alone. I couldn’t even use my phone because I had low battery. I sat in silence and rested my brain from the week I had. Entertaining clients. Early breakfast. Dinners. Putting on a happy face. Waking up super early with time change so I can speak to my girls before school.
I took it all in and I learned something. I learned I needed to slow down. I need to live in the moment. I needed to know I can’t juggle so much at once. I noticed small little errors I made at work and although it wasn’t a big deal to anyone. It was to me. I became hard on myself and said I needed to change. I need to stop multitasking, slow down before making decisions and then go do what needed to be done. Prioritize my life.
It’s been an amazing week. Exhausting but has taught me a lot. I loved the time with clients and their clients. We smiled all week but I learned a lot about myself too.
When you rest your brain you get to tap into yourself. You get to see the things you love about yourself and things you need to change for yourself. I learned that even though the last 1-2 years changed me I still had work to do and will always have work to do. I learned we are much stronger than we think. We can accomplish more than we think.
I can’t wait to see which new adventures unfold.
When was the last time you tapped into yourself and started to make a change?
