
Beachy Beach September Love Note
(Originally published September 28, 2016)
I was drawing a blank tonight and just did not know what I wanted to share and all of a sudden the phrase popped in my head…. The one that got away!!!! I think what my insides wanted to get on the outside is what do we focus on? Do we focus on the one that got away or the ones we get to keep? Then I went from a fishing analogy because frankly I don't fish to thinking about golf and how I used to feel when I got that one really good shot. When I put up my clubs up for the day I did not remember those 100 other horrible, gosh awful, cuss rendering shots but rather I thought of that one good one that went straight for the pen!!! Ahhhh enough to make you dream that the next time would be even better.
So to take this a step further, the focusing on that one good shot just made you want to try again and again. If any of you know golf you know that the good shots are far and few between but the memory of the good makes you go for more. I think it is why golf can be such an addictive sport.
Our lives are like that…. What if at the end of the day we focus on all the good things that happen to us, all the nice people we encounter, all the unexpected blessings? I would imagine if we go to bed thinking of our successes we would wake up ready to do it again and do it in a grander fashion. Book ending your day with all the things that went well and being grateful for the blessings that came your way does something to you. It is really magical how the feeling of success leads to just more of it.
If on the other hand I go to bed with a heavy heart and lament about what could have been or should have been I will wake up in the same old funk. The feeling that life is not enough leads to life is not enough. Those that think that life is good and full of great things tend to attract just that!!
There is a certain energy to talking about and thinking about what is right with our lives. It sets forth an energy that is attractive and health giving. It also helps others see what is right in their lives as well. It is easy to talk about the one that got away but what are you left with but am empty heart. I don't know about you but I would rather celebrate what is and what I have than what I don't have.
I am so thankful that I am able to work in a loving environment with kind giving people who want to make life brighter and sweeter for others!!! How could one girl get so lucky in what she gets to keep and celebrate.
With the most grateful heart!!!
Karen