Maggie Shayne--Bad Days

You know, no matter how well you think you're doing, there are always going to be days when people let you down, or bad things happen, or you get overwhelmed, and you just feel like crap.

I'm having one of those. Actually, I'm having several in a row. The writing hasn't gone well this week, I nearly wrecked my car, it's done nothing but rain, I'm feeling a lot of unrealistic expectations put on me, and I'm worried I won't be able to pull them off, and then I turn around and put unrealistic expectations on others and feel like crap when they let me down. It's a vicious cycle. I need to let it go and get back to my normal, bubbly, optimistic, sickeningly cheerful self.

I need to make some changes, get a little bit stronger and clearer, more self sufficient (I mean, I am totally self sufficient about most aspects of my life, but I still tend to need other people to make me feel happy and complete and loved, and that's not a very dependable source of happiness.) So I'm taking a 40 day course called Destination Transformation, which can be found at www.effortlesshealing.com. It's free, and it's supposed to be life altering. (Link in the title of this piece, I think.)

Now I already know most of the principles this course espouses. That we create our own destiny, that what we most fear is what we draw to us, that what we most focus on becomes our experience, that everything happens the way it's supposed to, and that no one's in charge of our lives, feelings, emotions and experiences but us. But knowing these things and living them are two very different things. I figure by doing the daily exercises and meditations I might get a little better at living this way on a daily basis.

I invite everyone to join in and try the course with me. Heck, it can't hurt, right? And we all have room for improvement.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.