This is a journal to help me learn LC tactics and to record LC success as 2007 draws to an end and 2008 looms large and hopeful ahead of me.
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Forgiveness...it's mine to give...to me...and others.
Posted 01-17-2008 at 06:15 AM by Zer
Shame never works to lift my spirits. I prefer using praise. Forgiving myself is also a good tool. I learned that from Kitty Carlisle Hart, who said that the last thing she does at night is to say to herself, "Kitty, I forgive you" - just that - so simple, so elegantly simple! I think it works like a dream! For more on the ever-elegant Kitty, see http://www.kittycarlisle.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Carlisle_Hart
Forgiving myself is a great way to end a less-than-perfect day, of which I have many.
I'm struggling to let go of excess weight, old baggage, guilt, shame, all the detritus - the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up - of 64yrs as a human being emotionally abandoned at birth by people who did not plan on being parents. Pitiful people. Long gone now, but their memory lingers on.
Recently, I've found that starting my day with 40g of protein gives me a kickstart, so I mix up a hot slurp first thing - 2scoops of ALGittleman's WPP+cacao+espresso, then stir like mad while adding hot water, add VCO and stir to melt it in the foamy luscious hot slurp, then slurp up 40g of protein that hits my cells and empowers them and me! All of that before I do the FlyLady thing (lace up my shoes, sparkle my sink).
On the days I cherish my cells and nourish them, I get a RUSH of feeling competent. What a feeling that is! Altogether amazing feeling!
Cannot express how amazing it is to start my day feeling competent. Moi, competent! Oy!
Who knew that a couple of scoops of WPP could elevate one's spirits so? But...WOW!!!
Forgiving myself is a great way to end a less-than-perfect day, of which I have many.
I'm struggling to let go of excess weight, old baggage, guilt, shame, all the detritus - the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up - of 64yrs as a human being emotionally abandoned at birth by people who did not plan on being parents. Pitiful people. Long gone now, but their memory lingers on.
Recently, I've found that starting my day with 40g of protein gives me a kickstart, so I mix up a hot slurp first thing - 2scoops of ALGittleman's WPP+cacao+espresso, then stir like mad while adding hot water, add VCO and stir to melt it in the foamy luscious hot slurp, then slurp up 40g of protein that hits my cells and empowers them and me! All of that before I do the FlyLady thing (lace up my shoes, sparkle my sink).
On the days I cherish my cells and nourish them, I get a RUSH of feeling competent. What a feeling that is! Altogether amazing feeling!
Cannot express how amazing it is to start my day feeling competent. Moi, competent! Oy!
Who knew that a couple of scoops of WPP could elevate one's spirits so? But...WOW!!!
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Forgiveness does not mean allowing repeat offenders to be a part of my life. I've been a fool, too often. No more. I am more protective of my peace of mind today than I have been in past years. Lessons learned, some at higher cost than others. All experience has value.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. |
 
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I'm slow.
Sometimes I forgive too easily. Sometimes I don't see the users using me until I've been used or even used badly. I'm trying to get better, more aware. I think my holding back from people/contact inhibits my awareness. But once I've become aware/awakened to the situation, I can, most times, easily cut them out of my life and move on. |
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Easy? Never easy for me to admit I'm holding the short end of the stick - and expected to find that sufficient, as a person who gets short shrift from folks who CAN do better. That is what usually is my wake-up call, when I see a loser/user put out an effort to show some spunk for others while I'm expected to take bad behavior from the same loser/user. Grrr!
Shakes me up, to see someone show a capability with others that I never suspected and made all sorts of allowances for. What GIVES, that some folks make an effort to act right with others and just barely get by, not even trying, with me? |
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Updated 01-18-2008 at 10:59 AM by Zer (Whingeing...just a bit.) |
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Amen to that my sisters...Of course, being a follower of Christ, I'm kind of hitting a snag with that "Seventy times seven" line--in red letter, no less. I balk at the forgiveness a lot, even knowing that I'm the worse for wear, holding onto the hurt and anger. Feeling entitled to my little grudge. In the end, Christ's sanity wins out. I admit that I've, at times, been no better than the person who hurt me. So I put it in His most capable hands. I forgive. Then it's up to to the Lord to deal with the emotional end of it all. In both of us.
I've been told that most (not all, by no means...) of the people in psychiatric wards are there due to; 1. they need to forgive someone, or 2. they need to be forgiven by someone. Sometimes both. It's pretty broad spectrum when you think about it, but having been really close to needing to be put in a nice white coat, I guess I have to bow to the truth of both those statements. But God made us women. Not rugs. You do not simply owe it to yourself to stand up and be counted, You especially owe it to the person--yes, owe--that is being a jerk. So, serve it to them. |
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God made us women. Not rugs.
Awesome mantra, kuukuu, and it jibes with advice given me by a workmate who sat near me and heard me accepting impossible work assignments too often, then working too hard (overnight, many times) to bring a job in on time, while others had a leisurely time at work. Her advice? NEVER ALLOW ANYONE TO DO TO ME WHAT I WOULD NOT DO TO ANOTHER. It turns the Golden Rule inside out and permits a slow responder - a slow thinker - like me to make a fast and timely decision when asked to take on more than is reasonable. I still prize her advice, decades after she kindly shared it with me, as a very much junior co-worker who got out of that job and started her own biz...and then another... and is today doing landscape design, a work she loves and is awfully good at. She is a quietly brilliant beacon in a world of foggy and uncharted reefs. God made us women. Not rugs. She will be delighted to know that I've met a wise friend with the wit to know where to draw the line. |
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