Waiting and Hoping and Happiness

Attesa e Speranza e la Felicità, Waiting and Hoping and Happiness

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”  Joseph Campbell.

This time of year we are all waiting, waiting for the summer, waiting for those pounds to drop that we pledged to lose this year, waiting for that promotion, waiting to find a new job, waiting to get out of school, waiting for that perfect relationship, waiting for that winning lotto tickets or just waiting for happiness. It seems we are all are waiting for something. 

At 51 years old I’ve been waiting for that fairytale dream life for a long time, and the older I get the more I realize that the only way I can hope to attain everything I’ve been waiting on is to change my mind set.  Get rid of the waiting frame of mind and look at what life has already given me.  There is another quote from Joseph Campbell that says “The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.”  I am happy, I’m happy that I’m healthy, that my sons are independent young men who are following their desire to be happy, I’m happy that I found a wonderful man to love me and I’m happy that I am still able to live the life that is waiting for ME. It may not be the fairy tale life that I‘ve dreamed about when I was young, where you have no problems, all the money in the world, the ability to live out all your passions in life and you ride into the sunset happily ever after?  But the life I’m supposed to have is out there.  Do I have hopes for more absolutely, I would love to be able to travel, not get up every day at 7 and go to work, be able to enjoy more of what this wonderful world has to offer, and live a wonderful retirement with my husband, but I can’t achieve that that unless I stop sitting around waiting and working harder to change my outlook and if this 51 year old women can step back and try to find ways to make something happen, think of what you can do, no matter what your situation.  START NOW.  It’s never too late to make a change, education yourself, get healthy, learn to love yourself and find out what really make you happy, and never stop hoping. I don’t know who said it but I am going to leave you with one last quote.   “Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?”

I told you I would keep you updated on my daily and weekly goal, worked out  4 days, finished 2 more classes, and started a book call “A Summer Affair” (corny romantic novel), so I’m right on track. Oh and I have kissed my husband every day.

God Bless, Love you all.  Please let me know your thoughts and share this with your friends, It might make a difference in someone’s life.

Goals, Dreams, Success and Failure.

 Some of you may say, wow she is late with her blog, others may say her blog came out early this week, and yes my blog usually comes out on Fridays.  Last week was a little crazy, it would be really easy to say I’m not going to do this anymore and spend my time in front of the TV but NO. I’m going to get back on track and doing that is requiring me to set some goals for the next year.  I decided if I was serious about my resolutions, I should start with some goals.  The one thing that’s hard about setting goals. Is the fear of not reaching them, that horrible word FAILURE, but if you don’t set them you have nothing to reach for.  You can’t succeed unless you give it a shot and if you don’t reach your goals, you can still have the pride that you tried, but never give up, just start again.  So I’m starting with some daily, weekly, monthly and finally yearly goals.  Baby steps, with 52 years of life experience under my belt, I’ve learned the first step is the hardest, so my daily goal is to, first kiss my husband there are so many times you just get so busy that the only kiss you give is when you are leaving, coming home, or going to sleep. I want to make sure that I give my husband that kiss that says I love you everyday, I also want to study everyday, thus leading to my knowledge for my new career, and finish my passion to learn Italian.  Weekly I am going to keep up with this blog, I have decided that it is keeping my stress level down and is great therapy, next communicate with everyone I know or have connections with to continue to build my business and I also want to exercise at least 3 times in hope to find that healthy and fit body that has been hiding inside. Monthly I would like to read a book, whether it be a self help book, a how to book, or a romantic novel, (I will keep you up to date on my choices and if any of you have any suggestions let me know), Keep up with my monthly newsletter, monitor my website, and tell at least 3 new people about my new travel business and finally yearly, by the end of the year I would like to be working full time as a travel consultant, and make some money at it. I would like to have taken at least 2 trips and fill my milk jug with quarters. (I was told if you fill a gallon milk jug completely with quarters you will have $1000.00).  So far this week I have completed 2 classes, Austria Expert and a client software class, exercised 2 times, finished my website http://www.glkdreamtravel.com/  and wrote this blog, I think I’m on my way to meeting my daily and weekly goals.  I want you all to hold me to this, I feel it is always a little more motivating to have someone to be accountable to, so with each blog I will give you an update.  There will be times that I don’t reach those goals and I would ask you to comment, yell at me or give me some words of encouragement.  If I continue to meet all my little goals, I will be able to celebrate with you the accomplishment of my yearly goals.  Now those of you that know me know I like being in my comfort zone, so being susceptible to failure is not like me, but at my age I can’t wait any longer to reach for my dreams.  THE TIME IS NOW.   I hope you have dreams in your life and set your own goals to reach them.  Tell me about them and I promise I will help motivate and encourage you too.  Please share this blog with your friends it just might help someone you know achieve their dreams also.  Love you all, live each day to the fullest.

 

God Bless and Happy and Safe Travels.

Ciao, Sunshine vs. Rain

As I was driving to work this morning the sun came up and was shining on the tops of the buildings and it cast a beautiful glow on the mountains, it has been a really hard week and this sign helped me realize that no matter how gray and dark things feel the sun will come out again.  The icy feeling of evil will fade and the warmth of God will beat upon your face. If you don’t know sadness how we can ever know what happiness feels like?  I sat in my car and thought about the good things that did come out of this week; I got to spend some real quality time with my son Anthony, I was reminded of the strength of the love, of my husband and the power of family and friends, that they there to support you, that you can never appreciate their importance, until you really need them, and I also got to spend some time with some good friends and share some tears and laughter. I was also reminded this week that there’s a time in a parent’s life when all you can give is a hug, love, prayers and support, the rest is left to God. Your children have their own path and dreams to follow, to watch them struggle is the worst thing in the world, while knowing that you love them more than life itself, you can only sit back and watch and when they fall and each time they fall, be there to help them up.  I may not be a millionaire (or even a thousandaire, if there is one) but my husband, my sons, my family and my friends make me one of the richest women on earth.  I love you all and would be nothing without you.

Next week I am going to try to focus on my new travel career, I have a website to finish creating, training to complete with the travel institute, my 2^nd newsletter will come out and hopefully you will hear about my first booking.

Thank you all for reading my thoughts each week I hope they touch something inside you.  Please share my blog with your friends, post comments so I will know I’m not alone out here and please follow my blog to get notice of my updates.

May you have just enough rain in your life, so that you appreciate the sunshine.

Ciao, God Bless

Happy and Safe Travels.