joy in the gloom

happy monday

 today is monday and i had the day off. lots of 'life' stuff going on. it felt good to spend the day de-cluttering, if you will. life gets so busy and i find myself wanting to squeeze it ALL in. and that is exactly why i spent the last two days sleeping! so apparently i can't do everything :( even right now as i am writing, my mind is thinking of all the 30 other things i could be doing. how do i make it stop?!

it's funny because i actually get less done the more i want and plan to do. it pays to slow down and focus on one thing at a time but boy does it take practice. it makes it hard to enjoy life when you are running around trying to accomplish 10 tasks at a time and already on to the next thing. multi-tasking is great, but i definitely need balance in my life. it's my number one goal in life is to find balance! i believe life is better with balance because it helps with my ever present anxiety. yes, that's right the a word. sometimes i have so many things i want to blog about that i get so overwhelmed and don't blog at all. hence the month in between blogging. not cool.

my friend posted this picture to face book today and it could not be more true:

lol.

i have to say i see so much growth in my self lately. normally the doom and gloom we have been experiencing this MN winter would totally drive me crazy. but i am trying so hard to find joy even in things i cannot control. for instance today i found out that somebody did indeed steal my wallet last saturday and decided to spend $900 at foot locker on me. i had cancelled my credit cards as soon as i knew they were gone but even in the little time between, someone managed to do some damage. now it's the process of reporting the fraudulent purchases and spending a good portion of the day talking to my credit card company. i just made the conscious decision to not let it ruin my day though. it's totally out of my control. there is nothing i can do about it. such is life. so many things are out of our control. 

i love this caption. it's so true! i think i always used to think it would get easier. so far from true. if anything it gets harder!

so grateful for the opportunity to start each day a new and for the grace of God. 

i encourage you to take a moment out of your day and breathe. breathe in love and breathe out gratefulness. it's a beautiful thing.

p.s. watching a seinfeld episode always makes any kind of day lighter and brighter in my world

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<make it a fabulous day darlings>

annie carleen