Bringing joy back to the holidays

Somewhere along the way I let sadness usurp my holiday spirit. Today I decided to take it back. Sadness has a place in my life, I just let it take over on a seasonal basis that has lasted 12 years . So I have decided to give it a weekend in March when the wind is howling but spring is closing in. It is like so much in our lives that we give power to temporarily and then forget to get it back. So bring them on, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's. I am ready to celebrate and live every outloud moment of them.

Patience and Power

I have been thinking a lot lately about power. I don't have any and acknowledging that has made my blood pressure drop 30 points. I know it makes me sound like a real wimp but really the real power comes from knowing you do not have any. Patience is where it feels good to live. Patience is what I can wear but power/control almost always involves what we want someone else wear. If you ever tried to dress a squirming 2 year old who does not want to be dressed you get the picture. In the world of work we must at times have control and direct some situations but I think I'll keep working on ways to give others choices and let them dress themselves.

You have to start somewhere

My first blog. Scary but the notebooks all over the house to capture random thoughts do not seem to be working. So this is Plan B just like my life. There is a lot to be said for Plan B and eventually I will get to writing about it but for now it is enough to say that sometimes Plan A is just the warm up for plan B.