BE HAPPY NOW
I've had a revelation recently - Be Happy Now. It's sounds simple but it is actually quite profound. I had my dramatic version of "life" this weekend. I'll spare you the details but suffice to say that it follows the same drama of most people's lives -- some things happened and then some things went wrong and then I found myself quite stressed out. Sound familiar?

Well, the cosmic 2x4 hit me yesterday. AGAIN! Guess what. Life happens. Things go right. Things go wrong. The only choice I have is how I react. That's it. My choice. Always.

Thank heavens I have a husband who is committed to the same things that I am. He helped me see how the CHOICES that I was making were the actual root cause of my stress - not the circumstances - the CHOICES. Smack (sound of the cosmic 2x4)! All I had to do was to make a different choice.

It is not as easy as it sounds. I am very attached (read - addicted) to the drama in my life. I needed serious intervention. So, at midnight on a Sunday night, after I was already in bed for over an hour (fretting and stressing), Andrew decided to "mix-it-up" and helped me make a different choice. We used the humourous intervention known as "Friends re-runs". It worked like a charm. After a gut-splitting state change, I was able to choose a different way of being - I chose HAPPY (no matter what). All of sudden, I was so stressed anymore. This stuff works. Try it!