I'm sure that everyone has heard of 100 days of happy. Well, this is my version of that with a little twist. Instead of 100 days of things that make me happy, this is going to be the start of 100 days of me making changes.
Whether they are big or small, I have things that I want to change about myself or about my life, we all do. Relationships, bad habits, career paths, the list is never ending, but whether it's a simple lifestyle change or a life changing choice, it's not going to happen on it's own. I have to take the first step, make the first move, put in the effort to make these changes happen. Daily habits don't take root overnight, so when it comes to things like diet and exercise, I don't expect immediate results. The same goes with a major decision like going back to school, changing my career path or even moving to a new place. I can decide to do it, but it's not going to happen overnight so I have to have patience with myself and with life in general. Slow progress is still progress.
I have so many things that I want to change, that when the 100 days are over I probably won't be finished, but the process will have begun. The ball will be rolling. Each day I will come here and write all about the "change of the day" and each day that passes I hope to see a difference in myself and my life. Each day I hope to create good habits, make better choices and when all is said and done be healthier and happier because really, isn't that the point.
Tomorrow will be day 1, let's see how this goes...
~KG
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Waiting for what?
I usually only end my posts with a quote but I'm going to start with one as well.
"Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you're in now."
After reading that it got me thinking and here's what I think. We wait for the weekend. We wait for the summer. We wait until we fall in love or until we are more financially stable. It seems like we are always waiting for something to make us happy. Waiting for a someone to come into or something to happen in our lives before we allow ourselves to be happy. Well, while we are waiting on all of these things, for these moments to occur, time goes on. The minutes, hours and days go by. While we are waiting, life is happening and little moments of happiness are being overlooked and opportunities are being missed.
In the fast paced, let me check my schedule, I don't have time world that we live in, we crave and search for happiness when in reality we already have it. Our focus is placed on so many different things at any given moment that we don't recognize the happiness of and in those moments. When we laugh at a co-workers joke, happiness. When we get a text or a phone call from someone and it brings a smile to our face, happiness. When we take a moment to step outside on a nice day, to curl up with a good book or to simply sit and do nothing, there's happiness there. It's not always the grand gestures, award winning moments or invitation worthy events that bring us our joy. More often than not it's the simplest of things that mean the most and feel the greatest yet we tend to overlook them and focus on bigger things. The big things are not the most important part of the bigger picture, it's the little things that mean the most in our lives.
"Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you're in now."
After reading that it got me thinking and here's what I think. We wait for the weekend. We wait for the summer. We wait until we fall in love or until we are more financially stable. It seems like we are always waiting for something to make us happy. Waiting for a someone to come into or something to happen in our lives before we allow ourselves to be happy. Well, while we are waiting on all of these things, for these moments to occur, time goes on. The minutes, hours and days go by. While we are waiting, life is happening and little moments of happiness are being overlooked and opportunities are being missed.
In the fast paced, let me check my schedule, I don't have time world that we live in, we crave and search for happiness when in reality we already have it. Our focus is placed on so many different things at any given moment that we don't recognize the happiness of and in those moments. When we laugh at a co-workers joke, happiness. When we get a text or a phone call from someone and it brings a smile to our face, happiness. When we take a moment to step outside on a nice day, to curl up with a good book or to simply sit and do nothing, there's happiness there. It's not always the grand gestures, award winning moments or invitation worthy events that bring us our joy. More often than not it's the simplest of things that mean the most and feel the greatest yet we tend to overlook them and focus on bigger things. The big things are not the most important part of the bigger picture, it's the little things that mean the most in our lives.
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”~ Robert Brault
~KG
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