Enhance Your Calm

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This year I will find somebody ...

Mellow greetings! It has been exactly one year ago today that I found out I was being laid off from a good job in Birmingham. A lot has changed since then including putting the house up for sale, moving out of Alabama and into Texas (July). We moved further south as did the economy after we got here. The house is still up for sale with no prospects. The job prospects are dwindling.

WonderWife can tell you how all of this has affected me better than I can but the truth is, it hasn’t made me a very pleasant person to be around. The stress was eating away at who I am and replaced it with someone else. I didn’t like this person, so I chose to show him out the door.

I can not and will not allow circumstances beyond my control to take control of my life. I choose happiness and joy. I will learn to appreciate what I have instead of lamenting what I do not. So yes, I could choose the negative path but I’ll go down a different road.

I could use some company!

4 responses

  1. You've got company right here if you want it. I admit that my situation is 180 degrees from yours, but that has done nothing but make me MORE positive, joyful and grateful this year. I am striving to be a purely positive person, so bite my tongue when I want to complain and to stifle my naturally critical spirit. Doesn't always work, but by grace I try. Hey listen, if you ever want to have a Katy photogs meetup again somewhere other than a restaurant, I'd be happy to host. I don't expect we'd have a huge crowd but I have plenty of room and can provide sustainence (sp?) for free for those on a tight budget, plus of course Wifi.

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  2. You've got company right here if you want it. I admit that my situation is 180 degrees from yours, but that has done nothing but make me MORE positive, joyful and grateful this year. I am striving to be a purely positive person, so bite my tongue when I want to complain and to stifle my naturally critical spirit. Doesn't always work, but by grace I try. Hey listen, if you ever want to have a Katy photogs meetup again somewhere other than a restaurant, I'd be happy to host. I don't expect we'd have a huge crowd but I have plenty of room and can provide sustainence (sp?) for free for those on a tight budget, plus of course Wifi.

    Reply

  3. You've got company right here if you want it. I admit that my situation is 180 degrees from yours, but that has done nothing but make me MORE positive, joyful and grateful this year. I am striving to be a purely positive person, so bite my tongue when I want to complain and to stifle my naturally critical spirit. Doesn't always work, but by grace I try.

    Hey listen, if you ever want to have a Katy photogs meetup again somewhere other than a restaurant, I'd be happy to host. I don't expect we'd have a huge crowd but I have plenty of room and can provide sustainence (sp?) for free for those on a tight budget, plus of course Wifi.

    Reply

  4. You've got company right here if you want it. I admit that my situation is 180 degrees from yours, but that has done nothing but make me MORE positive, joyful and grateful this year. I am striving to be a purely positive person, so bite my tongue when I want to complain and to stifle my naturally critical spirit. Doesn't always work, but by grace I try.

    Hey listen, if you ever want to have a Katy photogs meetup again somewhere other than a restaurant, I'd be happy to host. I don't expect we'd have a huge crowd but I have plenty of room and can provide sustainence (sp?) for free for those on a tight budget, plus of course Wifi.

    Reply

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