Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

One day I was walking out of a building and I held the door open for the woman behind me.  Something we should all be doing anyway!  (Holding the door for each other)

She thanked me for holding the door for her, then said “it’s going to pour down!

I said “it’s nice and sunny right now, so I’m going to take a walk”.

When we got outside it was sunny, warm and very inviting weather for a walk which is, in fact, what my intention was, and what I did.

When she walked outside, it was as if the sun did not exist and all she could see were some clouds way off in the distance.

Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Is your life sunny or cloudy?

Is your glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

How you see things and look at life is all about perception.

It is very likely with her Half-Empty view of the world around her, that she did run into some rain as she went on her way that day.  It did not literally have to physically rain on her wherever she was, or in whatever she was doing.  Since she only saw the worse, something not so pleasant probably happened to her.

Seeing the day, and time, and space, from a Half-Full view, I had a lovely walk enjoying myself, and the things I happened to see, and experience along the way.

In the attraction-based world in which we live, like certainly begets like.  It’s like that saying that “birds of a feather flock together”.  What you think about attracts people, situations and things that match your thoughts.

If you generally think the worse, the light will turn red as you approach it, and you are already late as it is.  You might have even left your wallet at home and couldn’t pay for the stuff you filled your cart with, after spending half an hour in the store shopping.  When your mind is filled with Half-Empty, non-productive thoughts, too many of your experiences reflect the less than ideal  things that show up for you.

When your thoughts are light-hearted, and more often than not, there is a song in your heart, all the lights are green for you.  You get the best parking spots.  Your experiences are usually joyful, and you appreciate all the things going on in your life.  Your life and your glass are Half-Full with plenty of room for more delightful experiences to show up.

I’m not saying the glass Half-Full crew does not have things to deal with. We all do.  What I am saying is, it is all a matter of perspective.  It’s all about how you feel about things.  It is about what you see through the lens you look through.

You do not have to be knocked down by what is going on in your life, or by the things you see.

One way to put the Half-Empty glass down is to stop and think about all the things you have already gotten through.  It might have seemed like whatever those things that seemed so hard to you at the time, were never going to work.  But now, you can look back at them from the other side, where you have already probably pretty much forgotten about them, and how worked up you were about it at the time.

Surely, you’ve heard the expression “This Too Shall Pass”.  All of the stuff does pass into into yesterday, last month and last year.

Life is so much better when your glass is Half-Full.

Every thing in life is a choice.

Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?

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Overcoming One Of My Biggest Fears!

What is the world coming to when you have to stick your own self with a needle to do your own health assessment?

This question is from someone who, as a child, had to be hog-tied and held down to get vaccinated and to have blood drawn for her physical exams.

I’ve had a life-long fear/hatred of needle sticks.

It’s justifiable.

Two years ago, at a real health assessment done in a doctor’s office, as it should be, the needle stick was almost painless.

For me!

I told the phlebotomist that she was good because I almost did not feel anything.

Which had never happened before in my whole lifetime!

She told me the needles are so fine now that there is hardly any pain involved any more in needle sticks.

I had the same experience during my annual blood work at my doctor’s office last year.

I hardly felt it!

That phlebotomist said pretty much the same thing about how the technology has grown causing the needles to be finer and sharper.

I’m all happy about this evolution in something that has caused me a life-time of dread.

I can remember myself saying the only thing I am afraid of is mice and dentists.  Actually all rodents are rats to me.  Forget that mice crap.  I am only now realizing needle sticks should have also been on this list.

My kryptonite.  Rodents  Dentist.  And needle sticks.

Want to subdue me?

There you have it.  The three thing that would bring me to my knees quickly.

Those things would have worked.

Not any more!

I had to learn how to be responsible about the needle sticks during my first pregnancy.

It seems like drawing blood was what all pre-natal visits were about.

And, there were a lot of pre-natal visits.

I figured out how to almost slide out of the chair just about hitting the floor BUT keeping my arm still while I was being stuck.

I would warn the lab tech that I would probably jump out of the chair but I had the good sense to tell them although my body would be doing some things, they were not to pull the needle out.  Hit it and be done!

I may be the biggest woos they would ever see, but, don’t play with me!

The first thing they would say is, don’t look.

What the???

Don’t look???

You’re about to invasively stick a metal object into my arm and you expect me to look away?

Something is wrong with that thought process.

I can’t not look!

It probably has to do with the idea of giving up complete control, which I am not built for.

I will watch you through the whole process.  And guide you if I have to!

When I see you about to withdraw the needle after a perfectly good stick because I flinched (hell, I damn near convulsed) but my arm is still available to you, I will tell you straight up “do not pull the needle out”.   “Do what you got to do”.  “My arm is still here”.

Overcoming Fear!

The price I have to pay for a small amount of control.  Or, to simply get though having my blood drawn.

That self assessment kit sat on my table for almost a week until I could pull myself together enough to do it.

I was not happy about it, but I did not have any other choice.

As it turned, out I had to stick myself twice.

My blood was so thick that after wiping away the first drop, I could only get one more drop to come out.

This left me with only one other option.

I had to stick myself again!

I prepared another finger and did the damn thing a second time.

I wiped away the first drop and barely managed to massage maybe two more drops out to get my test done.

My fingers are still sore the next morning.

I’m not happy about this at all.

But I did it.

To be totally honest, I did not stick a needle into myself.  It was a lancet.  Needle.  Lancet.  It all adds up to the same thing to me.

I guess the moral of this story is:

When faced with having to do what seems like an impossible task, remember we have everything it takes to make it happen, and know we always do come through and prevail!

Oh, yes.

I conquered my fear of dentists too.

Dentist visits are no longer the painful ordeal they used to be.

Thank God for evolving technology.

And rodents?

I no longer live in New York so it is a non-issue for me.

See.

LIFE IS ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR US!

Thank the Lord!

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