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Through My Eyes - What a week!

Through My Eyes - What a week!

Author: Kasia Yoko
Date: 2013-04-16
Finally we are feeling a slight winter chill and it feels so right! I can hardly wait to pull out my winter warmers and get under my woolie blankets and enjoy my own personal style of winter hibernation.

It is not often that I feel a sense of real peace. Having the family around me is the best feel good medicine in the world. When the people who love you surround you, life is just naturally perfect.

Recently a nasty experience almost pushed me over the edge. I must be honest I did not expect to be bruised in this manner and I am still kicking myself for having fallen for this brutal assault, but as someone who is trying to focus on positive aspects of life, I came out of it with a strong moral understanding of my mother's most powerful saying, Z kim sie zadajesz, takim sie stajesz. translated; You become whom you befriend.

Did you know that the more positive friends you have, the better able you will be at remaining upbeat yourself? Studies have shown that optimistic people tend to deal with stress and illness better than those who aren't positive.

The Mayo Clinic lists the following health benefits associated with positive thinking:Increased life span; Lower rates of depression; Lower levels of distress; Greater resistance to the common cold; Better psychological and physical well-being; Reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

While the emotional benefits of positive friends are obvious, you may also be more physically able to deal with the ups and downs of life by surrounding yourself with friends who are a good influence.

Recently someone sent me an interesting consolation letter, which I would like to share with you. Take what you need from it and remember, no one should be allowed to mess with your head. Life is too short for nonsense.

Here are a few important lessons worth learning before it's too late:

1. You might not have tomorrow to say, 'I love you.'
If you love someone today, tell them. If you appreciate someone today, tell them. There might not be a tomorrow. Today is the day to express your love and admiration.

2. Your judgments of others are inaccurate.
You will never know exactly what another person is going through or what their whole story is. When you believe you do, realize that your assumptions about their life are in direct relation to your limited perspective.

3. Not trying is why most people fail.
It's not the mistakes and failures you have to worry about, it's the opportunities you miss when you don't even try that hurt you the most. Trying always leads to success regardless of the outcome. Even mistakes and failures teach you what not to do next time. In the end, there's only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the failure to try.

4.Patience does not mean waiting and doing nothing.
Patience involves productive activity. It means doing your very best with the resources available to you, while understanding that the results you seek are worth the required time and effort, and not available elsewhere for any less time and effort.

5.You don't need anything more to be happy.
Intuitively, you already know that the best stuff in life isn't stuff at all, and that relationships, experiences and meaningful work are the staples of a happy, fulfilling life. Yet you live in a consumer driven society where your mind is incessantly subjected to clever advertising ploys that drive you, against your better judgment, to buy material goods you don't need or even want.

6.You aren't perfect, and neither is anyone else.
All humans are imperfect. At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient misplace their patience, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable second guess what they know.

And guess what? You're human and so am I, we all are. We make mistakes, we lose our tempers, and we get caught off guard. We stumble, we slip, and we spin out of control sometimes.

But that's the worst of it; we all have our moments. Most of the time we're remarkable. So stand beside the people you love through their trying times of imperfection, and offer yourself the same courtesy; if you aren't willing to, you don't deserve to be around for the perfect moments either.

7. All the small things make a big difference.
Life isn't about a single moment of great triumph and attainment. It's about the trials and errors that get you there, the blood, sweat, and tears, the small but inconsequential things you do every day. It all matters in the end, every step, every regret, every decision, and every affliction.

8. Excuses are lies.
Make no mistake, there is always a lie lingering in between a dream and too many excuses. And the lie is you lying to yourself.

The excuses and explanations won't do you any good. They won't add any value to your life or improve the quality of it by even the slightest margin. No one else can succeed for you on your behalf. The life you live is the life you build for yourself. Now is the moment to actually step forward.

Come join me in stepping forward.