We want to remember the lessons learned from the past years, we want to save money, get healthier, become a better parent, a better person, we want to do so much but most of us fail. The reason?! We are humans, creatures of habit and without work we wont change. This year I want to remember the things from 2013 and be thankful for them and to also learn from them, which is the most important part. Here are a few that I hope to remember.
1. Last year my husband got a firefighting job in Tennessee with the State. Instead of complaining about where we live, how I stick out in a small cliquey town and his paycheck is much small than before, I am going to embrace and be thankful for his job. I am also going to be thankful for the couple of friends I have found.
2. After a very small our house fire last February, I realized the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been. We were all safe and a company was going to clean most of our items. Then, after they took our belongings they blew up. Yes that's my kind of luck...instead of being upset about having lost all my grandmothers items or his grandfathers, or even the pictures that are not replaceable. Instead I am going to not collect as much stuff and really think about the most important things in life, like memories!
3. This one I should have learned a long time from now, but sometimes I need it to really sink in before I see it. This one hurts to say, but we will no longer let anyone borrow money from us. This one hurts because people somehow have this idea that we are independently wealthy, this is very far from true (were closer to the poverty line than an ATM). When money isn't returned then it causes problems in relationships and that's not what I want either! Instead if we have extra money and someone needs it for a very good reason, I am not going to expect it back. I will give it to them with no strings attached, this way I am able to help people and the relationship isn't going to end up in an awkward way.
These are the three lessons I have learned, but mostly I just want us to be thankful in every situation, either good or bad. I tell my kids everyday, every action has a consequence. Therefore all of our actions need to be good actions so we can have a good consequences. However, all of our bad actions help us learn how to correct them to become good consequences! Everything is a learning opportunity.
Before you go get a list and try to keep a resolutions of the year, try to remember the lessons you learned from the prior. Try to change your attitude to a positive perspective. Here are some of my favorite quotes to help get you on your way....
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact."
- William James
"You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes."
- Douglas Malloch
"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."
- Fulton J. Sheen
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
- Lucille Ball
"Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times."
- Joan Lunden
"Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines."
-James Lane Allen
"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"A winner is one who accepts his failures and mistakes, picks up the pieces, and continues striving to reach his goals. "
-Dexter Yager
"Flops are part of life’s menu. Everyone makes mistakes. High achievers learn by their mistakes. By doing that, an error becomes the raw material out of which future successes are forged. Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is."
-Unknown
I would love to hear your lessons learned from prior years as well as some of your favorite positive and learning quotes!
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