VernetteOutLoud

Five Minute Friday: Small

5-minute-friday-1I’m linking up again this week with Lisa-Jo Baker and the other lovely writers of Five Minute Friday.

Click on the button to the right for more details on what this challenge is all about and how you can participate.

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This past weekend, I had to keep reminding myself not to compare my start to someone else’s middle. My sister and I have started a business together and we are small fish in a big pond. And I found myself comparing our product to that of more established businesses. Thing is our product is good and in some cases even better than some of the bigger fish.

But it was so easy to get caught up in comparing and second guessing and wondering and then ultimately worrying about being good enough. Without considering what it took for the bigger fish to get where they are at today.

And the rub when you start comparing yourself negatively to others is that you deny yourself the journey of your own growth.

STOP

FMF

Six-word Memoir: No

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Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once wrote the shortest short story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Here is my six-word memoir for today:

I asked and he said no.

Be grateful

Choose joy

 

“Joy does not simply happen to us.
We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
– Henri Nouwen

Joy is one of the fruits of the spirit and like with all fruits, it must be cultivated over time. I have found that my gratitude practice has gradually become a source of real joy since I started noting the things I am grateful for in my life. I’ve been doing this since November of last year and for me, happiness really is in the details. It is the little things I do or don’t do every day that fill me with love and joy.

Joy comes from within and it is the gift that comes from acceptance of who you are…right where you are, patience with yourself as you grow and evolve and being at peace with the world you live in.

You want more joy? It’s simple. Be grateful.

Be grateful for who you are, where you are, just as you are.
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Today I join the lovely Holley Gerth for her, “Coffee for Your Heart” link up.

You can read all about this lovely cup of goodness by clicking on the button to the right.

Wordless Wednesday

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Quote of the Day

If you are always trying to be normal,
you will never know how amazing you can be.
– Maya Angelou