Hello, my wonderfuls! 🙂
I rocked it today. 🙂
Up at 4:25. Did everything involved in my morning routine, including working on my book. The only morning routine thing that I didn’t get done during the morning was my meditation, which I did about 6 p.m. before heading home for the day.
I haven’t figured out actual percentages for things yet. Some items are more important than others, so I probably ought to figure out some kind of a weighting system, but I got everything in my morning routine done–up at 4:25, servicise, shower/ready, various studies, prayer, book writing, and work stuff. 100% for the morning! As far as evening routine, I’ll end up having done 12 out of 14? Only missing doing quotes for work (there are two I need to create and send out), and I’m not in bed on time. About an hour late. But… hey, I feel like I rocked it today. I’m excited.
And that’s not the only positive for today. I got the Durango done. I was positive pretty much all day, even working on it. I got frustrated maybe twice, and it was… super tame frustration comparatively. No, I was in a great space pretty much all day. Let things roll of my back, when things didn’t go so well, I took it much more in stride. It was great! When I had a chance to do another job that was only 6 minute away, I said… nope… it’s 6 p.m., and I’m going home, and I lost the job to another company because of my choice, but… so what? I’m not still out working. I’m home like I should be if I want to live a balanced life.
Wahoo!
Anyway, I’m grateful. There’s still certainly room for improvement (still struggling with the texting and driving thing. I did pretty well today, especially really wanting to text Brittani when I found out her grandma passed today, I fudged a bit here and there, and i want to fix that. But today was monumental progress, and I’m grateful.
#1. I’m grateful that I was able to get a fuel line for the Durango from the junkyard today.
#2. I’m grateful that I was able to find a hood from another car that was already damaged so I wouldn’t damage it using it as an island, so I could work under the Durango at the junk yard without getting soaked (two inches of water in a huge lake under the Durango. I slid the hood under and just laid on that while I took the tank off to get to the fuel line I needed. I still got wet, but I wasn’t laying in a two-inch puddle of snow melt.
#3. I’m grateful that I was able to get the Durango tank bolted back on safely. I had to create a new way of mounting the tank to the frame, but I did it, and it worked and it’s on, and it’s working. Wahoo! 🙂
#4. I’m really grateful for my growth. It feels so nice to just let the stress and pressure melt off my back, and just… let it go. Again, still not perfect, but as you can imagine, I’m crazy backed up from being off for two weeks and a billion people calling anyway, and I’m just like… whatever. I’ll do what I can do.
Granted, that’s today, and my growth might go in fits and spurts, but I like today’s fit, and if that’s all it is for the moment, I’ll look forward to the next spurt. 🙂 Little by little.
I’m growing, and I’m grateful.
Thought of the Day: “Do not wait; the time [might] never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert
Thoughts and prayers and good vibes for my friend Brittani and her family. Her grandma passed away today.
Thank you.
Loves and hugs. 🙂
Lift the World.
~ stephen
Lift the World 