10-25-15
This past week has not been spectacular but it has been good. The biggest thing is feeling more close to my wife, Debbe. Yes she was gone for ten days in CA and I missed her, but it is more than that. I really enjoy her more and want to be closer to her. I make it a point to stop what I’m doing and spend time doing something with her every day.
One day this week we were going to go to a line dance class, but when we got there the room was filled with paintings. Class was canceled that day because they were using the whole building for an art show. When Debbe said OK let’s go to the farmers market early today, I was the one who wanted to stay and look at all the art, not something I normally do. I went through the whole building looking at all the paintings. I did not see anything that I really liked but I did enjoy looking to see if I would. Art is not something I usually care about and I wondered if I would now that I’m starting to get in touch with my feelings. I did however decide, I am going to find a painting someday that I really enjoy and I will buy it and put it on my wall. I am very curious to see what I will choose, what type of art will reach out and grab me?
I have not exercised at all this week outside of going to karate, and walking the dogs every day, which is a two mile walk, and playing some pickle ball. I have been active just not doing everything that I was for a while. I’d like to do a few things each day but it is so easy to not do it. I have been doing much better about not eating so much, and eating less junk. I lost one pound this week.
As far as my invention, I don’t want to spend any money until I make money. So for now I am just open to new thoughts I get on how to improve it, and how to pay for it.
I have been doing a lot of jumping around this week going through the book the Success Principles. I am making a list of the principles as I go through the book, so I can look for a reference to each principle in the bible. I keep finding that I missed one or two so I jump back and listen again. I know I could go on line and get a list but I want to do it myself, right now any way. And it is good to hear the info again.
I have been smiling more and more with my teeth and the smile is lasting longer. I notice I smile a lot more with just the corner of my mouth also. I finally was able to take a note when I smiled on the left side, I don’t remember why I smiled, the note only said “interesting”. So when I find something funny and cute I smile on the right side when I find something funny and interesting my smile is on the left side, so it seems.
I have to say I love knowing my passion, at least one anyway, I love helping people who need help. I have thought about it a lot and it fits.
I had a conversation with my sister recently about the theory that everything anyone does is for a selfish reason. An example would be me doing something for you with an expectation of getting something in return, even if the return is just a good feeling I get for helping. I get that but I find a lot of times I just do things without thinking about it, like picking up trash that I find when I’m walking, just yesterday I saw a golf cart with the headlights on, the parking lot was full with no one around, I went over and turned the lights off so the driver will not have a dead battery when they come back. I do many things just because it’s right not because I hope to get something from it.
Thank you, Margaret, for the nice comments on my spider light.