Week 23

Is the glass half empty or half full: or is it a bit of both?

Learning more about the power of attention. On a daily bases how much does a person pay attention, I mean really pay attention to all that is going on around them. It is easy to put the blinders on on look straight ahead, but look at what you are missing out on. A persons world has so much to offer, we just have to pay attention. 

Now it’s true it is not always easy and I am far from an expert at it, but the more I slow down and look around I see beautiful things. 

I must share, since starting MKMMA my attention to detail has greatly improved. In the past I have taken lots of shortcuts (depending what the situation was). However, have really noticed a change in my attention in my environment and to my tasks I need to get done, becoming more efficient in my day to day activities. I love it. What a great growing experience.

22 A

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think.”

” Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long, that they have come to esteem the religious, learned, and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has not by what each is” MKMMA

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

 

All so true, yet going through the many weeks of MKMMA I have come to realize that I am only now at the beginning of a great journey. 

I have learned so much yet it is only the start, yet I am so impressed with myself for my changes that I have made to this date.

 

”  The unexamed life is not worth living” (Socrates)

 

 

Week 22

A very interesting week. I couldn’t last more than a couple of hours being quite. Lots of excuses, like how will I teach the kids school? What if they need my help and I could keep going on. Here’s the funny thing yesterday I got a sore throat, headache and by noon, guess who couldn’t talk. Yep till today and here is the wild thing, right now no sore throat, voice is back AND I really enjoyed the time. I think I was avoiding the experience because I new if I was quite and really observing I would start observing myself and my thoughts and I was not to sure I wanted to do that.

 

Week 21

Everything is a miracle, great statement.

With this week I have observed how I have been transforming. Amazin. Reflecting back I have seen that impatient really described me but guess what I am becoming calmer in everyday situations and it feels great. Tension, lots with lots of headaches. Sitting back and seeing everything as a miracle has opened up a new world and I am loving it. 

Life really is what you make of it and you never know when your done. Just 3 weeks ago my cousin 68 years young was diagnosed with brain cancer and he died the day before yesterday. Life is wonderful we must embrace everyday and start it with a great big smile on your face and be thankful.

 

 

 

Week 20

I would like to share the following

“What have you been avoiding because of discomfort? Learn the discomfort is your friend -when your uncomfortable, your trying something new, your learning, your expanding, your becoming more than you were before. Discomfort is a sign that you’re growing.

When you run from discomfort all the time, you are restricted to a small zone or comfort, and so you miss out on most of life” ( Leo Babauta).

This statement just really hit home for me. I have not tried so many things due to discomfort/fear what ever you want to call it. Really am I going to die ,NO  I am just going to feel out of place. However, 

Yes someday I will no longer be here, I will be dead, so why does fear still get in the way? We need to live while we are alive. Have a great weekend.

 

Week 19

Fear! there is a destroying word. I sure can reflect through my life and see where that very thing “fear” has stopped me from achieving, moving forward, etc. it was not until my children started growing that I truly relized that. Now helping them achieve and grow has had some very challenging moments. How can. I ask them not to be fearful when I have aloud ( at times) for fear to have such a great effect on major decisions in my life. There was an eye opener. 

I really like a statement I read on one of the blogs.

if your ship doesn’t come swim out to it.

 

 

Week 18

Balance, the ever challenge of finding the right balance. reclaiming my ability to think and choose has been welcomed over the course, esp. the last couple of months. I am slowing down and thinking and have stopped working in auto brain.

i am no longer pretending to be happy in the area of my nursing profession and am really working hard on my hearts desire. “The will to live not just be alive”

Have a great week

Week 17 HJ

This week I am working with discipline. It has made me really be accountable with what I am eating, and I am pushing much harder in my workouts. My daughter has joined a competitive track and field club and when we were at a meet I was so excited to see all the disciplined athletes, including my daughter who spends hours every week to improve her physical performance and her mental state for the events in which she is competing (all coming from within). 

Becoming that better person from within, I no longer take short cuts. I love the statement

” This is our life not a dress rehearsal” I am really enjoying working on myself, even though it gets frustrating sometimes but I want to be able to give a lot to others however,  “I can not light the path for someone else without finding the path myself”

 

Week 17

This week I focused on Self-control. I must admit I picked the right thought as I was challenged a number of times.

Just thinking of everthing I have learned my outcome to the situations I was faced with this week ended  productive and positive with less hits to my emotional state.

in our readings this week I really connected and loved the following statements.

There is no limit to the things that can be done when it is given the power to act.

In experiencing great emotions that correspond with great thoughts, the mind is in a state where it appreciates the value of higher things.

The mind is an engine whose power is undreamed.

 

i loved these statements and have put them on my cards. They make me smile every time I read them.

Have a great week

Week 16

Kindness, great word, great week. As it was for everyone, this week was kindness. It was everywhere and I was so excited to have 

my children join me this week and for the remainder of the 13 weeks. They have been having so much fun watching for kindness and doing kind things without others knowing. For my self I have had just a great week. It was like a light bulb coming on and I got in ALL of my readings. Up until I have missed something but not this week. It felt fantastic.  

Once again I have to take another look at my smart goals and DMP. However, I am really looking forward to it (realizing I am going to grow and things will change) I liked #35 when he states “visualization must, of course, be directed by the will; we are to visualize exactly what we want; we must be careful not to let imagination run riot”

Well I can tell you where my imagination has be for many years. Yeap running riot.