Day of Hope #24
Saturday December 13, 2014
Goal: Get clear on a vision
Quote: “One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.” – Oprah Winfrey
Today was another great day. Slept in and got up around 11am. Cooked myself an omelet with veggies for my healthy breakfast. I don’t know why but today I looked in the mirror this morning, and I noticed I was looking sad and tired. I made a mental note of it and went about my day.
I settled in to watch the two movies that I watch every year. You have probably heard me mention them before but the first one I watched is, The Secret, by Rhonda Bryrne which is all about the Law of Attraction and manifesting your dreams into reality. I love this movie and every year I get something different out of it. I have been watching it since 2006 every year, usually in December, to prepare me to do my vision board for the upcoming year. I feel like I am a pro at it now and everything does come true.
The next movie is called, Eat Pray Love, by Liz Gilbert. It’s a movie about one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia. I like to watch it each year to inspire me and so that I can try to figure out which stage I am at in the movie. Am I at stage one – eat? Stage two – pray? Stage three – Love? It’s very interesting to see how I grow each year. This also came out in 2006. I am currently between the eat and pray stage.
After watching my inspiring movies, I proceeded to work on my vision board. I look back and see what I accomplished from the previous year’s board. I had asked for a new car, financial freedom, someone to do things with and have a romantic relationship, and health goals to name a few. I have worked on all of these. For the upcoming year, I am asking for travel, health goals, cute condo, beach vacation, and financial freedom. I have a work opportunity to move to Chicago so we shall see what happens there. Thus, the condo request.
One thing I realized from working on my current vision board, and looking over the year that just passed, is that when you are sad and depressed you will attract people that are sad and depressed. It’s obvious, but for some reason it just hit me like a bolt of lightning. There were some people in my life that I noticed came around only when I was sad or stressed out. Otherwise, I didn’t really talk to them, or do much with them. So, I really started to watch for it. If they were around me, there must be something I am doing that attracts them to me. For example, if I was in a complaining mode, or stressed-out mode, or just did not have a good attitude, they would be there. That’s when I started to reassess and change my outlook and attitude. They would then go to someone else to feed their need for drama. Quite fascinating. See if you have people like that in your life. Test it out.
Next, I did some journaling to get caught up on life events and then to dinner with my friend Idgie at my favorite Mexican restaurant Café Ole for margaritas and a shrimp salad to finish off the day.
When I was home again getting ready for bed, I looked in the mirror again and I noticed something inspiring. I looked happy and refreshed. It really proved what one day of hope can do.
As a side note on the 12th, I also started my back-to-back Christmas movie marathon where I pull out all my movies about Christmas or the Christmas holiday season (if it has snow it counts) and I watch them all before the actual holiday. I plan to do the 13 days before Christmas watching one or more movies. Some of them include The Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen, The Family Man – Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni, Serendipity – John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, The Grinch – Jim Carrey, The Holiday – Cameron Diaz and Jude Law, Miracle on 34th street – the 1994 version with Elizabeth Perkins and Dylan McDermott and of course Mara Wilson as Susan and a handful of others.
My lesson of hope: Next year will be a very interesting year. Having a plan for your vision and making things from your vision board come true can get you to follow your passion.
