365 Days of Thanksgiving: Day 117 of Thanksgiving......

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Day 117 of Thanksgiving......

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Today I am so very Thankful for Acting! Anyone who know me knows that I have a very hard time hiding my feelings and problems flash across my face like a neon sign. I don't like that and I so have always wanted to have the luxury of having a poker face. Not so easy for me. But, I have found that sometimes when things are difficult, if I act out how I want to feel or model a behavior, then it becomes easier to be what I want to be. Now I am absolutely not talking about being fake!! I am talking about acting happy or at least not melancholy and the happiness will follow. They say it takes about 21 days to adopt a new behavior and for me sometimes much longer. Negativity has been one of the erks that I have tried so hard to loose and acting out being positive has helped me to do this. As the invincibly positive Norman Vincent Peale used to say "by deliberately acting counter to what you now are, you can develop into what you want to be!"

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1/364 For years I worked in an office at a desk and one of the company supplied tools was a desk calendar. It was the kind with one page for each day and at the end of the day, that page would be torn off. In the bottom right corner of the page were two numbers with a slash between them. I was fascinated with these numbers - they represented the numerical place that day held in the 365 days of the year. Simple math but awesome to me. For the purpose of this blog I will do my best to use that representation to note 365 Days of Thanksgiving. I have tried this many times in journals but have always failed and let it fall by the wayside. I am hoping by creating this blog and posting it on FaceBook that I will have the organization and forethought to keep it going. I also hope this practice will allow me to keep things in perspective and realize the true joy in life and focus on that each and every day. So hear goes.....