Accepting the life that we have

The word accepting send shivers up most peoples spines. Accepting often means to us we are giving up. Ever think that maybe the word accepting is getting a bum rap?
If we have to accept something, it means the outcome is not what we wanted it to be. But at some point in the human race we translated that into something that is worse than we wanted it to be. We never think something could be better than what we wanted it to be. Pretty arrogant when we think of it that way. Billions of people in the world and each of us want things to go the way we want them to. Just not possible. If we spend more time just taking life as it comes without so many expectations we may find we have happier lives after all. If every day can be a new adventure with endless possibilities and we could accept it as it comes we could exceed our wildest expectations. To never spend time and effort on worrying about things you can't change and living each day as the blessing it is, come what may................. sounds like pure bliss.

Another year....to failure or success?

Well I did it I made it through another year, and managed to not achieve one of my New Years resolutions. So what will I lay claim to as my 2012 resolutions? I resolve to not resolve. I resolve just to live without the constraints of promises to myself that will end in failures. Not that I always fail, but measuring my success in terms of reaching faraway goals that I have set for myself is unrealistic and unfair to me.
Wow, can you really be unfair to yourself? Yes, absolutely! We tend to be harder on ourselves than others ever are, and being hard on ourselves often translates into setting expectations that we will be hard pressed to reach. I think this year needs to be a year of finding success and accomplishment in the small things. The small things are what find their way into becoming big things, things that we want to achieve. As humans we are well....human. We lack patience and want to think that hard things can be accomplished quickly and without trials. It is only in looking back on our accomplishments that we can truly see how much hard work, sacrifice and yes, failures went into the outcome of the success. So this year, I am going to be like the inch worm, crawling slowly and patiently towards the finish line, thankful for every inch of ground that is covered! To the New Year!!!