7 for Seven

Let’s face it // Mondays stink. Or at least we typically expect them to stink. That is why, every Monday, we post seven positives from the previous seven days of the week as a reminder of what we have so that the week starts out on an upswing. There is much truth in the belief that happy people attract good things, so it is important to start the week out right. Sometimes it’s the more grand, but other times, it’s the simple things. ~ Key + Arrow

7 for Seven originated at Key + Arrow and I think it’s the best way to start my week, since I am trying to change my Mondays suck thinking by being thankful for all the goodness in my life.

This is my 7 for this week:

7 for Seven week 3

My hope is that by turning my focus to all that I have to be grateful for at the start of the week, I can carry that “positivity + balance + bliss” with me throughout the days ahead.

What are you grateful for today? Please feel free to share with me below!

Here’s to a productive week ahead!

7 for Seven

I really need a day between Saturday and Sunday!

I find it so hard to get out of bed on a Monday morning. That said, I am trying to change my Mondays suck thinking by being thankful for all the goodness in my life.

7 for Seven originated at Key + Arrow and in their words:

Let’s face it // Mondays stink. Or at least we typically expect them to stink. That is why, every Monday, we post seven positives from the previous seven days of the week as a reminder of what we have so that the week starts out on an upswing. There is much truth in the belief that happy people attract good things, so it is important to start the week out right. Sometimes it’s the more grand, but other times, it’s the simple things.

This is my 7 for this week:

7 for Seven week 2

My hope is that by turning my focus to all that I have to be grateful for at the start of the week, I can carry that “positivity + balance + bliss” with me throughout the days ahead.

What’s your 7 for Seven this week? Please feel free to share with me below!

Here’s to a great week!

7 for Seven

It’s no secret I’m not much of a morning person unless there is a Spin class or coffee involved. And as for Mondays…well Mondays can suck it! So when Mary of the awesometastic Contrary Mom started doing her 7 for Seven I thought, heeey here was the perfect way to chase the Monday Blues away by being thankful for just seven things that happened or didn’t happen during the week before.

As it turned out, 7 for Seven originated at Key + Arrow and in their words:

Let’s face it // Mondays stink. Or at least we typically expect them to stink. That is why, every Monday, we post seven positives from the previous seven days of the week as a reminder of what we have so that the week starts out on an upswing. There is much truth in the belief that happy people attract good things, so it is important to start the week out right. Sometimes it’s the more grand, but other times, it’s the simple things.

This year however, I want to change my Mondays suck thinking by being thankful for all the goodness in my life. So without further ado, I give you my first Seven for 2014:

7 for Seven

My hope is that by turning my focus to all that I have to be grateful for at the start of the week, I can carry that “positivity + balance + bliss” with me throughout the days ahead.

I would love to hear what your first 7 for Seven for 2014 would be. Please feel free to share your seven with me below!

Here’s to a great week!

Do your thing!

Just Do Your Thing

I will not give in

Shattered!

Shattered!

2013 is only 49 days old, yet I feel like I’ve been tested over and over.

First my heart breaks, I had to say goodbye to a friend.

Then my thumb got busted.

Then my other thumb got busted too in a hot glue-gun accident.

Then a Ganglion cyst.

Then yesterday, my laptop fell and the screen was shattered. It fell on the jump drive sticking out of it and that broke too.

SERIOUSLY?!

I started throwing the pity party I so sorely wanted. I mean what the EFF right?! Tears evermore for all the information on both devices that I wasn’t sure could be recovered. And for all the things that seemed to be going wrong. It’s like every time I got my head above water…some undercurrent of negativity tried to pull me under.

This year has been a completely unpredictable series of twists and sometimes unfortunate turns of fate. And I will not allow myself a moment more of self-pity. I am grateful for the “new opportunities” all these twists and turns have brought into my life. I will see things as they really are and I will let go of the expectation that things are always supposed to go a certain way. I will be honest with myself always.

The world did not end when I my laptop fell. So I will suck it up and be open to new circumstances when things don’t go the way I expect.

Negativity will not win.

I will not be discouraged. I will not give in to despair. I will learn the lessons and I will move forward always.

Broken.

Broken.

Thumbs heal. Laptop screens can be replaced – at a cost, but it can be replaced. I was able to recover all the information except one file (which I can live without) on my jump drive. Ganglion cysts can be busted. I will continue to love and my heart will be healed.

I CAN do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!

I will continue to write.

I will continue to LOVE.

…and I will back-up all my information on a couple extra jump drives for safe-keeping.