Wednesday 7 January 2015
Misty with promise of sun later
10 degrees
Reading the online Huffington Post, I come across a divorce attorney, Krista Barth's New Years Resolutions - there are six and the last one is the most telling for me6. I will be accountable for my own happiness.
I will try in 2015, to be accountable for my own happiness by remembering to be grateful for the amazing blessings I have and not focusing on what is missing. I will try not to complain about becoming older by remembering it is a privilege denied to too many others. I will try not to complain about work and recognize I am lucky to have a job. I will do what I can to choose happiness, even when it is not the easy choice. I will remember this life is full of more laughter than tears, unlimited beauty to behold and opportunity to love and be loved every day. Perspective is reality, and I will try to make 2015 the year I keep mine squarely in check.
We can choose whether or not to be happy about a situation but Krista has really hit the nail on the head, when she says that being happy is not the easy choice. I know personally that it is so easy to spend ones time complaining, and plotting, and scheming, and imagining all the clever put downs you will use on a future occasion. I actually got to the stage last year when I resented hearing and seeing people laughing and looking happy. This is the year to regain my sense of perspective.
At the doctors yesterday to review the results of the scan. All clear. I tell the doctor I am taking a supplement because my hair was falling out. He said was I tired and I said permanently. He asked if I was stressed and I said I had been, enormously. He said I needed to step back - admittedly not easy - and distance myself from the things that were wearing me out. If that is the only thing that writing this blog will enable me to do, then it will serve its purpose well. As well of course as enabling me to write the book that I have always wished to write. Looking at analytics, I see most of my readers are in the US of A so a big 'Hi!' to you all out there. Dont be shy, drop a comment under this post and introduce yourself
Walk the dog along the old river track. The sun comes out and because it is midday, no one else is around. Fields full of sparrows and field fares who accompany us along by flicking in bursts from tree to tree along the way.
Learn, by looking at his emails, that WF has interview today. His phone has been switched off since last Friday. He is completely infuriating. RJ has left SILs house and had intended to go down to see WF but ends up back at the hotel where he works. He is not pleased and spent an age hanging around in nearby train station waiting for WF to turn on phone or reply by FB. Hotel not open until 10th so he will just have some R n R and hopefully get down to see WF before it opens again.
Go and take estimation report to house I went to see yesterday. Discover that another agent has valued it 15% more expensive than me. High value property so this translates into a lot of euros. Oh bloody hell. It is not worth that much and they will jeopordize their chances of an early sale. Take it on at the elevated price and tell them that we will review the situation monthly. It is absolutely key to get the property on at a reasonable price in the first place. The longer the property is on sale, the more invisible it becomes to potential buyers. They think - why is it not selling - is it too expensive and the owners are inflexible? Is there something seriously wrong with the house or the location? We will see. It is a lovely property but not that many euros worth of lovely.
Really must take down the Christmas decorations and record my New Year's speech.News devoiles shocking news of murder at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - 9 journalists and 2 police officers. Criminals escaped. There will be a muslim backlash I fear. How dreadful. Around the world, people unite to say WE ARE CHARLIE
Misty with promise of sun later
10 degrees
Reading the online Huffington Post, I come across a divorce attorney, Krista Barth's New Years Resolutions - there are six and the last one is the most telling for me6. I will be accountable for my own happiness.
I will try in 2015, to be accountable for my own happiness by remembering to be grateful for the amazing blessings I have and not focusing on what is missing. I will try not to complain about becoming older by remembering it is a privilege denied to too many others. I will try not to complain about work and recognize I am lucky to have a job. I will do what I can to choose happiness, even when it is not the easy choice. I will remember this life is full of more laughter than tears, unlimited beauty to behold and opportunity to love and be loved every day. Perspective is reality, and I will try to make 2015 the year I keep mine squarely in check.
We can choose whether or not to be happy about a situation but Krista has really hit the nail on the head, when she says that being happy is not the easy choice. I know personally that it is so easy to spend ones time complaining, and plotting, and scheming, and imagining all the clever put downs you will use on a future occasion. I actually got to the stage last year when I resented hearing and seeing people laughing and looking happy. This is the year to regain my sense of perspective.
At the doctors yesterday to review the results of the scan. All clear. I tell the doctor I am taking a supplement because my hair was falling out. He said was I tired and I said permanently. He asked if I was stressed and I said I had been, enormously. He said I needed to step back - admittedly not easy - and distance myself from the things that were wearing me out. If that is the only thing that writing this blog will enable me to do, then it will serve its purpose well. As well of course as enabling me to write the book that I have always wished to write. Looking at analytics, I see most of my readers are in the US of A so a big 'Hi!' to you all out there. Dont be shy, drop a comment under this post and introduce yourself
Walk the dog along the old river track. The sun comes out and because it is midday, no one else is around. Fields full of sparrows and field fares who accompany us along by flicking in bursts from tree to tree along the way.
Learn, by looking at his emails, that WF has interview today. His phone has been switched off since last Friday. He is completely infuriating. RJ has left SILs house and had intended to go down to see WF but ends up back at the hotel where he works. He is not pleased and spent an age hanging around in nearby train station waiting for WF to turn on phone or reply by FB. Hotel not open until 10th so he will just have some R n R and hopefully get down to see WF before it opens again.
Go and take estimation report to house I went to see yesterday. Discover that another agent has valued it 15% more expensive than me. High value property so this translates into a lot of euros. Oh bloody hell. It is not worth that much and they will jeopordize their chances of an early sale. Take it on at the elevated price and tell them that we will review the situation monthly. It is absolutely key to get the property on at a reasonable price in the first place. The longer the property is on sale, the more invisible it becomes to potential buyers. They think - why is it not selling - is it too expensive and the owners are inflexible? Is there something seriously wrong with the house or the location? We will see. It is a lovely property but not that many euros worth of lovely.
Really must take down the Christmas decorations and record my New Year's speech.News devoiles shocking news of murder at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - 9 journalists and 2 police officers. Criminals escaped. There will be a muslim backlash I fear. How dreadful. Around the world, people unite to say WE ARE CHARLIE
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