Lessons Learned

Lessons learned and acted on are sweet lesson indeed!  This morning I woke feeling somewhat apprehensive and just a little upset. You see, I had to go to the dermatologist this morning and get a couple of spots of pre-cancer cut off of me.  It really isn’t a big deal, but I knew it was not going to feel good and there was so much I wanted to do this morning.  I hated the idea of wasting most of my morning just to get hacked on.

 
The other thing that bothered me was that I needed to do some work outside that included spraying some of my lawn.  It is the kind of thing that cannot be watered or rained on for forty-eight hours afterward.  This morning was bright and clear and it would be my only chance for a week.  I hurried and got it done before the Appointment, went and got hacked on and came home.  Shortly afterward, it rained so hard, and hailed, that there was no way my spray was not washed away.  There went $20 down the drain.

 
I started to get really bummed.  I wasted the morning, was now way behind in the work I had to do and now the rain washed my lawn stuff away.  In the past I would have been on the slippery slope of the downward spiral.  I stopped, took a breath, and said to myself, “This will not, cannot, ruin my day.”  The bad feeling left and no matter the weather outside, the sunshine broke out in my mind and things were right in the world again.  That’s how it’s supposed to be!

 
We must all work on those things in ourselves that need changing and continually strive to feel the opposite emotion, live the opposite life.  We are created to be so much more than we are, but we cannot continue on the way we have and expect things to change.  Change today!  You’ll enjoy the result.