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For the many past months, after being confusingly impacted by several losses and physical challenges, I’ve been very motivated to more richly and fully “live” the positive qualities and ideas explained in yesterday’s Pocket Perspectives post, “Choose…plug in……connect to….the energy of so many positive qualities”
I really have been trying to “choose, plug in and connect to” the positive energies of those many positive qualities and skills…. doing my best to try to live those ideas, qualities and skills with curiosity, willingness, openness…and maybe even a bit of enthusiasm!
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And…recently…I’ve been able to do that more often!
Check this out…
that’s me in those photos, taken last week!!!!
Wow!!!
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Wow!!! Last week, I learned how to ride a motorcycle/dirt bike!!!! Wow!!!
I never, ever, ever, ever thought I’d do such a thing!!!
(it may be one of the bravest things I’ve EVER done!)
Choosing! Plugging in!!! Connecting!!!!
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Committing myself to….
cheerfully, curiously, openly, willingly and enthusiastically
living the ideas on those lists!!!
Making….“cheerful choices”
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I came up with a “checklist” this morning, to fill in each day…or every few days…
in support of….motivating, nurturing and encouraging myself to try to live these ideas!
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In support of living in this more positive, proactive manner, I created this Daily Checklist (specific to my own daily life) using these wonderful ideas… in support of making cheerful choices to be creating positive habits through nurturing and developing more conscious ongoing awareness of, commitment to and activation of some of these positive qualities and ways of living each day…. hopefully taking these positive ideas from an “interesting, theoretical, academic perspective” to a “living these ideas each day” perspective…leading to a richer, more meaningful, engaged sense of well being in our everyday lives!
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Making an abundance of….. “cheerful choices”
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Opening to….possibilities
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Part of Nurturing Thursday, hosted at Becca Given’s Blog, On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea. Please visit Becca’s blog for her Nurturing Thursday post and links to posts by other Nurturing Thursday bloggers.
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Great post and amazing actions!
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Thanks Peter…thanks for your support in making this transition! Cheerful choices, indeed! I still CAN’T believe I actually rode/drove a motorcycle!!! WOW!!!!
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Yay for you! And yes, there’s always something new and fun to discover. 🙂
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Thanks! I’ve been trying to stay aware of exploring new and fun activities and ideas…and that dirt bike was one of them.
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Wow! Looks like you had a lot of fun! 🙂 When’s your next date with the bike? 😉
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That was “fun” riding that bike…scared fun! I was mostly curious to see if I could do it and determined to just give it a try and see if I could learn how. That was in New Hampshire, so I won’t be going there again until next summer. Now I can learn some other “skills.”
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I think that every time we go over a scary hurdle – no matter what it actually is – it makes so many other things easier and less scary at the same time, as if the stakes were lowered in general. 🙂
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I guess so. I’ve thought a number of times this week, when thinking of doing something outside a limiting sense of “comfort zone”… “well, if I can ride a motorcycle, I can certainly do this one thing!”
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I’m sorry to hear the past months have been rough, Kathy. But so glad you’re finding such amazing ways to pull yourself up and out. Dirt bike riding! I haven’t done that since I was a teen. Maybe it’s something I should put on my list. 🙂
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Thanks Robin. I’ve been making a number of clear choices to “exceed” limits I might have been putting on myself…dirt bike riding was definitely exceeding what I may have thought that I could do! 😀
Even though the past months were confusing, I’ve learned so much by studying and reading about “resilience”strategies and qualities and “well being” qualities…and have been able to actually use and live those ideas into my everyday life….so it led to positives, so that’s good.
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What a brave post to share! With cool action to aid in your plan — to plunge right into it — a dirt bike!! Bravo! Thank you for sharing!!
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Thanks Becca. I sure did plunge in! Actually, now that I think about that, thank goodness I didn’t “plunge” to the ground…I stayed upright! 😀
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