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| New Day New Beginning |
You wake up; it's a new dawn, a new
day, and yet somehow it doesn't feel much different than the day before. It's
like today has yesterday written all over it.
Not only is it the same routine as
the day before with perhaps a few variances here and there, but the feelings of
yesterday may have also carried forward into this pristine day.
It's
tough sometimes not to get caught up in mindsets of "woe is me", or worrying,
or feeling stressed, or stuck in the mundaneness or busyness of the prior
day(s) and transfer those feelings into the next.
Echoes of yesterday(s) may not sound
too exciting or inviting when you look to tomorrow.
So... how do you leave yesterday behind
and start fresh today?
How do you break the negative
thinking and feelings?
How do you look forward to each new
day as if anything is possible?
You can start before you go to bed
by setting your intention of what, or how, you would like things to be tomorrow
and then putting them into action.
Either at night or in the morning
take out a blank piece of paper and let your imagination soar and show you how
your day could be.
Write about it, or jot down some
inspirational word or draw or put pictures on your paper of what you can focus
on. Look at it throughout the day and remind yourself of how you would like
things to be and make steps towards making it so.
When you rise, you can ask God,
(whatever you believe this to be) to lead the way today and to show you how you
can be of the greatest service and to see the possibilities, not the problems
at hand.
Become aware of when you are
slipping into the pessimism and remember there is another option, enthusiasm.
The more enthusiastic and resourceful you are, the likelihood for better
outcomes increases.
Try different things during the day
- a new way to work, listening to music or going for a walk to clear the
cob-webs in your thinking, changing the way you do and view things, etc.
Be more conscious of "how"
you are doing things throughout the day. Notice what your thoughts are and how
you are handling what you want to accomplish.
Tackle one thing at a time the best
you can rather than a whole lot of things done in a mediocre way.
Slow down and don't rush through
your day; enjoy it as much as possible. Take a break now and then and re-group,
re-organize, and re-new.
Be grateful for the day - the people
in it, your job, your home, your car, your clothes, the food you eat, the money
you have, the beauty surrounding you, and the fact that you have this day.
Be hopeful. If you don't like today
as it is, see if there are ways you can change it. Take a look at your thoughts
as they are usually a good indicator of why your day is continuing the way it
is.
You have to catch those discouraging
and downbeat thoughts as soon as you can and re-write them, literally or in
your minds-eye.
It's good to allow your feelings to
surface but then it's up to you how you are going to turn things around and
become positive and pro-active again.
What are your options? How can you
improve things?
The greatest gift you can receive
from a new day is that you have one, even as bleak as it may seem some days.
Let yesterday be yesterday and
tomorrow be tomorrow. Embrace today in every way you can.
Look to what's bothering about today
and make use of it by inspiring you to be and do things in a better way.
Remember, today is a new day and
anything is possible! It's up to you.
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