I've just gotta be me!

So I just finished reading Dan Pierce's blog - Single Dad Laughing.  This is one of my favorite blogs to read because this guy really puts himself out there.  He is honest, even when it isn't pretty, but also makes a solid effort to be his best every day and create some positivity in a world that really isn't terribly open to it.

It bums me out that people are so tough that he has decided to take a break from blogging.  First off, good for him.  He sees that the feedback he is getting is changing his own outlook and that he needs to take a step back to regroup on being the kind of person he wants to be.  Way to go buddy.  Honestly, I kind of feel like I am in a really similar position.  No, not with my blog...  I wish!  Single Dad Laughing (SDL) has one of the biggest followings out there.  Some day I hope to reach half the people he touches with my thoughts and ideas.  I'm talking about my actual day to day life.

My whole mentality is that positivity can rule the world.  If you think it, it will come.  And I don't mean that if you think about a rolex watch that one day you will wake up with one on your wrist...  Though I bet my husband would LOVE it if that happened!  What I mean is, if you approach your day looking for good/beautiful things, you will find them.  And if you spend your day looking for the opposite, you will find this also.

Lately, and I've alluded to this in some previous posts, I find that I am somewhat surrounded by negative energy.  Not at home, and not in my family or with my friends... Those are all environments where I get to control most of with whom and how I spend my time.  Don't get me wrong, they aren't perfect either, but I have been blessed with a quirky but loving family and the most amazing friends a girl could wish for.  The place I'm talking about is the one place where you don't get to choose the people who surround you...  Also the one place where you spend most of the hours in your day, work.

I am trying so hard to stay above it, to not get dragged down by the insecurities and negative behavior of the people who surround me, but I am only doing ok at actually living this reality.  I want to be stronger and better, but I feel as though my environment is literally starting to change some of the parts of me that I have come to like best.  I am finding that all I have to offer to the people I love is the negative waste that I need to get out of my system so that I can feel normal, and that is just not fair.  When you start to get the sympathetic looks from acquaintances who don't really know what to do with the honesty that you've just shared that they just smile and change the subject.... Crap, how did I get here!

So when SDL says he needs to take a break to "reset," I absolutely get it!  I am hoping that using up some of my vacation time will help me also.  If nothing else, help me to clear my mind and focus on all the amazing things that I do have in my life that make me happy and proud each and every day.  Plus, I have a good feeling that a little good news is coming down the pipeline for my family, AND my lil bro/bestie will be in town for an entire week around the Thanksgiving holiday!  Until then, I am absolutely taking advice on how to keep positive.  Lay it on me people, maybe some extra positivity will help to balance the rest!     

Another lovely quote from my favorite FB page... Enjoy! 

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