A random thought if I may..

I dislike whiners, I'm sorry but there's no subtle way to put it. In any given situation there are two options; either there's something you can do about it or not. None of that includes sitting around complaining to anyone that's within earshot about your oh so catastrophic woes. There are folk who cannot see the good in anything and I mean ANYTHING. They'll never take a complement -always quick to jump in and put themselves down when given one. They are a suspicious lot too always sighting ill motive.

Now you'd better steer clear of these guys or they will wear you out, literary. Why would anyone have such a bleak outlook on life? I mean we all have issues but half the time most of them are self imposed and I don't see how constantly complaining about a problem rectifies it. Get off your bum and do something about it. Feeling overloaded lately? Maybe what you need is some re-organization in your life and re-evaluation of priorities. Feeling drained in your relationship? Maybe its time to head on out or pump some life into it.

Point is, if something's bugging you, you need to articulate it, weigh your options then get off your ass and do something about it. Not go around whining about every-single-thing-that-ain't-right-about-your-life and basically annoying everyone in the process.

And remember the best way to predict your future is to create it.

Peace.

Putting away work for the day - stopped midway of whatever I was doing, closed my worksheets (well I remembered to save them lol) withought a second thought- tomorrow is another day. I literary have to stop myself seeing as how I've become quite the workaholic lately, a fact further stressed on by my adorable man. When there's work to be done, and you actually get it done without procrastinating, you'd think this would ease the pile up on your desk but it only translates to 'efficient' a word the bosses love and that further translates into MORE workload -not a payrise- on your desk. I'm hard on trying to break that cycle before I have a meltdown...sigh

Blogging however is the highlight of my day...it's therapeutic. I like to jog -one of the many positive habits I'm picking up (will revisit that later)- and I find that my thoughts are at their most free when I jog, I can almost hear my conscience whisper to me in the wind... it's my worst critic and fervent adviser. I got to thinking, how most of the answers we seek are already lodged somewhere in our subconscious, but we're so busy scampering about - sometimes devoid of direction or purpose- to take note. It would spare us all a whole lot of trouble if for a moment -preferably before jumping into situations that could very well be averted- we would stop and bloody pay closer attention to our intuitive senses. I've learnt a thing or two about that myself I've lost count of the number of times I've had to kick myself for not listening to my sixth sense and I must say nothing sounds more annoying than my own conscience yelling at me..."I told you so sweetheart, but you just wouldn't listen now would ya?" and boy is it loud.

Its hard to keep it together when all around you appears to be falling apart -literary or figuratively- we've all been there. We like to be in control and when things are not going right we tend to feel like we're losing grip, in comes the panic and before you know it, you're falling off the edge and fast, your mind starts to drive you crazy spinning faster than a ping ball -on not so flattering thoughts mind you. In moments like this I like to pull out, yell stop-to my brain that is- and out of all the chaos pick out one thing that I actually have some amount of control over and single-mindedly focus all my attention on it. Lets be practical here I might have no control over how the weather goes -though sometimes I wish it worked like my AC complete with a remote- or the mood my bosses are in -which can be as different and diverse as their French and Indian origins and in no way predictable, or fuss over the bloody fax machine -that's not been working for as long as I've been here by the way, or the bloody housekeeping department which finds it somewhat difficult to follow simple clear instructions which I repeat to them periodically every frigging morning! I'm drifting off here - now point is, in a world where sometimes the only thing you can control is your breathing we all need survival skills. And when I find myself at a point where things are spiraling out of control I like to compartmentalize, single out everything that's driving me crazy acknowledge but dismiss (or offer up in prayer) those issues that I cannot alter (which makes worrying about them pointless), pick out those that are well within grasp, sort them out in terms of priority (which basically to me means "which of these tasks by committing to, will bring me the most satisfaction?) that's my ranking rule. And I don't just say it in my head, I write it down too it. When I can articulate my issues and actually note them down I've half way worked through them. Out of my head and down on paper -I can literary feel the pressure ebbing off of my brain as I do it. Then I proceed to work on the said tasks like my life depended on them and the results are rewarding.

This way I'm not too hard on myself.