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Monday, April 8, 2013

On Being Happy

I CLEANED UP MY BASEMENT. YESIREE. Maybe I should write each letter in a different color of the rainbow because that's how happy I am. I threw stuff away. I swept. I dismantled things and re-purposed them into something cute just like those crazy-mormon-mom bloggers. It made me proud. Proud to be a mormon and proud to be a mom and proud to be a blogger. ('Cause really, if you aren't fixin' your house and blogging about it can you really call yourself a mormon mom?) I don't know. Can you say it ten times?

Did I mention I am on a bit of a spiritual journey and part of that includes goal setting? So I wrote sweep stairs to basement down and waalaa! like magic the whole basement was cleared and I didn't even cry once.

I have a notebook that I use for this spiritual journey. Every night I right down what I am thankful for. There is power in gratitude. In this notebook, I also went through a process for finding out what I really want in life. You know how sometimes you land somewhere and you just keep going, living, being...but there is something off and you know that maybe you were meant to be more or you have this itchy feeling that your life didn't quite line up like it was supposed to? So I read a bunch of books and one suggested that you write down your ideal scene. Just rush write it--what you want in five years. So I wrote this scene down and there were a lot of really predictable parts in my ideal scene, and a couple of things that surprised me. Once I wrote my ideal scene, I began to look for the goals that are embedded in the scene. I wrote those down and try to work on the goals every week. This all feels easy and relaxed.

Also, after all my readings it keeps coming back to this: be happy. Today on Pinterest I saw this quote and I think it pretty much sums it up.





You can't change your life when you're sad. Sorry, Sista.

1 comment:

Louise Plummer said...

You cleaned the basement? Wahoo! Can I move in now?