Enjoy the Silence

Sunday Morning rain is falling... I think I just wrote a song. Oh, wait someone beat me to it. A Hunky, tatted up rock star but, I am getting off topic.

I ponder, I ponder a lot. I ask myself lots of questions and ponder the answers from all directions. The question I asked myself this week was about changing view points. If you had even asked me 6 months ago, I would tell you that I hate mornings. I couldn’t find any redeeming quality of morning and it would take me hours to function. Morning was just one of those things you had to get through to get to the rest of the day.

In October, partially because I needed to get out of the house and see other people, I started a Pt job at Target in HR. My work day started at 8am and there was stuff I needed to get done before I left. So, I started getting up between 5:30 and 6. Oh how it sucked but, not for long. I started enjoying the mornings. I started looking forward to the quiet, I valued my morning routines with Remington. Started looking around at the views of the local farms as the sun rose over the mountain (ok for those who like out west, you would just call it a hill but here, it is a mountain). A few weeks ago, it was snowing. It’s actually snowed a lot this past February, Remi and I went out for our first walk of the day around 6am and I could hear the snow fall. There weren’t any other distracting noises, I could hear the snow fall and it was a beautiful sound.

So, back to the pondering. The initiating statement was I hated mornings, the question became what things have I told myself that I didn’t like, that I didn’t do that maybe, just maybe, I needed to take another look at, try and see if I really didn’t like them or couldn’t do.

It started small and was just about walking the dog. You see, I hated cold, I hated winter. But, the dog needed to be walked, I bundled up and started at 1 mile and worked ourselves up to 4 miles in windchills in the 20’s. So, I didn’t love the cold and winter but, I started to notice the beauty of walking in the snow in the quiet morning and I could put aside the discomfort of the biting wind to see and be grate full for what was around me.

Remember being a kid and your mom put a new food in front of you? Your first response was ick I don’t like that and mom just said, you haven’t tried it, you don’t have to heat it all just try it. How did we lose that concept? You told yourself you don’t like certain foods, that you can’t hike, that you can’t wear a mini skirt and you believe it without recently testing your belief. (We do change as we get older, you know and things that applied in your 20’s may not apply now)

Test your belief system, take something you have made a negative assumption based on previous experiences, just try it. You don’t have to love it or even eat it all just try it. Share on our FB page things that you have challenged yourselves to try or retry!