As people know me would confirm, I am an optimist. I don’t sit around all day thinking “something good will happen” though, I do ask my questions, make my plans and try to organize things in my favor.
My last 2 posts show examples of “good luck” .. my boss, knowing I want to go to Australia for a while to be with my gf has extended my chance to be out of town. My cell phone company giving me more credit than they “needed” to just because I happened to call and ask for a plan change.
I do feel that people make their own luck though. Like with my job, I made special utilities all the time for my previous bosses and eventually ended up with a job doing just that.. Same with my condo.. I found a place that I liked, it looked nice and in a nice community, in San Diego.. it’s also common that new properties appreciate in value quickly.. and it did.
Do I have off days? sure.. I’ve had flat tires, engines blown out of cars, late payments on bills, get slaughtered in online games, am behind in things I want to get done, have constant problems with the brakes in my cars, have had my car broken into, have lost wallets/credit cards and had them used fraudulently, bought the wrong items and not been able to return them, had the IRS garnish my wages, been fired from jobs.. yes, I have bad luck..
I do think it’s how you look at the bad and deal with it that changes it’s luck.. did the flat tire happen when you were in a hurry or on your day off? did the bank notice the fraud on the credit card and give the option of not paying it? did the engine die at a time when I didn’t need to be at work “immediately” (although I was on the way to work), etc.. things DO work out.. not “perfectly” but they do.
A bit of optimism never hurt.. just remember that it’s how you look at ‘em and that things somehow will work out. It may not work out “perfectly” and there will be things that simply “are bad” that you can’t be happy about, but in the end, things work.
[something tells me I should have turned off comments, but I’m gonna leave them open so Kristin can be pessimistic]
Couldn’t agree more. Focus is everything.
The only caveat with that in my experince is, its not always clear which is leading which. My mood generally tells me how I feel about something, rather than me trying to be optimistic and influencing it.
What i’ve noticed about myself since i’ve started to get a little more physically active, is that I can’t rely on things like “motivation” or “waiting before I feel like doing something” before I do it. I have to do it before I feel like doing it, if that makes any sense…
But generally, once I get going, I start enjoying it
So I guess i’ve learned (shorterm… we’ll see how it holds up through my life) that if at some point anything ever sounds like it might be fun, to just make a commitment to doing it, whether I feel like it or not. Lagging indicators and all that jazz.
Anyway, i’m bubbling over with love with all these new posts to comment on
Toodaloo!
July 21st, 2004, at 6:13 pm #Anything can be a lesson, anything can help one grow, providing the focus is in that direction. Skinned knees and broken hearts, however, are rarely fun.
July 24th, 2004, at 11:12 pm #