Look at me - I'm at 100. Five days ahead of Trump and I'm doing pretty well. There are life's little inconveniences though. For instance the yearly ritual of the air-conditioners, all six of them which need to be hauled out of the basement and installed in the windows. This happens in stages. Our son comes up from Queens and carries them upstairs, then they sit on the floor or wherever for several weeks before Dean gets it together to hoist them into the windows. Where was our bedroom air-conditioner sitting? On our bed when I went to lay down last night. Am I complaining? No not really - a minor inconvenience which means I will be cool at night when the really hot weather rolls in. No gains are made without minor inconveniences. No baby learns to walk without a few bumps on the forehead. A large part of what I do is counsel people - students, young clients - about the choices they make. Doing the extra work to find a summer job, taking an internship that is an hour commute each way in order to get a richer clinical experience, being patient with the paint brush or pencil to get the picture they want.
You can't always get to the dessert without eating the spinach.
Inconveniences, minor ones, are the speed bumps that cause us to slow down and do right sometimes.
Other times they are just a pain in the a**. In keeping with my positive psychology bent I am choosing to see them as learning moments en route to life's gains.
You can't always get to the dessert without eating the spinach.
Inconveniences, minor ones, are the speed bumps that cause us to slow down and do right sometimes.
Other times they are just a pain in the a**. In keeping with my positive psychology bent I am choosing to see them as learning moments en route to life's gains.
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