Short Inspirational Thoughts When You Need A Break From Bad News
When joy is a habit, love is a reflex. -Bob Goff
Sometimes when the world feels like it’s burning down around you (Australia) and overcome with chaos (America and Iran), pursuing joy feels selfish.
Who are you to seek joy amidst so much suffering?
I’m learning that joy and gratitude are like oxygen masks. We need it so that we can turn from ourselves and SEE the world.
Love is a reflex when we make joy a habit.
I’m nursing a sick, feverish kid this morning, but found joy in this quiet, steaming cup of coffee and buttery shortbread cookie. And yes, even those gaudy Christmas mug snowmen ⛄️ filled my joy-cup...come at me.
How to run a 10K, when you despise running
1. Watch Brittany Runs A Marathon on @Amazon and get “accidentally inspired.”
2. Find a crazy best friend, in this case my daughter, @sydneyynelsonn, who hates running, too, but says like a fool “Ok, let’s do this.”
3. Sign up for a 10k in your city.
4. Bring your ENTIRE family to @fleetfeetnashville and freak out the salesperson by how large your ragtag entourage is. Am I Whitney Houston? No. Well, sometimes I pretend I am, but that’s a different post.
5. Order new running shoes, because yours in 10 years old and you do things like yard work in them.
6. Start a training program and pray to the running gods that your 20 minute mile will somehow morph into an appropriate number to share with the public without sure ridicule.
7. Follow a run/walk 10k *training program, because damn...You need to breathe and can’t afford an ambulance.
*Here’s the training program I’m following, which I can vouch for because my legs have not yet fallen off:
IN A PERFECT WORLD, where time and money were not issues:
Which cruise 🚢 would prefer:
A. Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas
OR
B. Disney’s Fantasy Ship
Leave your comment below!
This was me, one week after collapsing in an ER.
My body was recuperating from, well, a total breakdown. It was hard to stand. I slept a lot. On this night, I was a 💯 percent on the exhaustion scale. We had just bought a house. I was running a brand new Airbnb, homeschooling, and managing about 3 side-hustles.
I didn’t know how to juggle it all anymore. There wasn’t enough of me. There weren’t enough minutes in the day.
I was drowning...with a smile on my face.
Have you ever been SO SURE that if you didn’t make a change in life, you would be swallowed up?
I don’t say that to be dramatic, but my body was giving me warning signals and I had been ignoring them. I was terrified what would happen next if I continued.
So, I made some massive changes. I’m still in the middle of making those shifts. It’s been brutal, uprooting old habits and learning new ones.
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I’ll be talking more about all that I’m learning, because I know I’m not alone.
Share this post if you can relate...We weren’t designed to live with bone-crushing stress...Let’s find a better way together.❤️