LOOKING FOR HAPPY

Trees at Mission Point Lighthouse-Traverse City, Mi.

I have the new computer desk and beautiful Malachite green Italian alabaster egg bookends to hold a few of my favorite books on my desk.  My goal is this week to put my many papers in the new hanging files to reduce the cluttered stacks I have in hopes it will help calm my cluttered mind.  I seem to procrastinate on organizing my stuff and just move it from one place to another.  When I worked I was so organized with my files and work, setting daily goals to get all the necessary paper work done.

Now that there are no deadlines or expectations from anyone I just let things slide.

Once when I was bringing my grandsons to stay all night the older one was a little grumpy.  They were about five and nine at that time, I told them to see if they could find their 'happy'.  Something that makes them happy inside and puts them in a good mood.  After several minutes while traveling I asked them if they had found the happy place way down deep inside, the little one replied 'I found mine but my brother didn't'.  He did eventually find something to make him happy and we had a great time together.

So each day I need to remind myself to find and do something that makes me happy because happiness is an inside job.