Moments

There are many things I am pretty good at, but there is one thing in this world that I am exceptional at, and that's giving advice.  I'm not always good at taking advice, and certainly not my own, but that's one of the things I'm going to start working on.

Yes, I can talk the talk, but walking it is entirely different, and often find myself tripping and falling.  Tonight's topic came to me after I gave advice to someone who is nervous about the next two weeks.  'Handle one moment at a time and don't ask any more than that of yourself,' I told her.

If only I could whisper this to myself every now and again, I might start sleeping better.

I know with the drama and deadlines of our lives, it's hard to keep perspective.  It's almost impossible to keep focus on what is most important when bills are due, we're running late, we've failed a test, or when people around us just suck the happy out of the room.  

And when we somehow do get through that moment, another one comes along to stray us away from what is important.  It's an uphill battle, but I think that's the lesson;  Do we want our lives to be about the drama or what's important to us?  

I know what I want, and I know what you probably want too.  It's not hard to see when it's written here  in black and white.  The challenge is living in the moment every single day, and not take anything for granted.  Good, bad, or ugly, things happen to us, and our challenge is to make our life better because of those moments.

Are you up to that challenge?  How are you going to choose to spend the moments of your life?

Have a fabulous week, my friends.