I recently picked up a book called, http://www.amazon.com/Follow-Your-Dreams-Except-Where/dp/07407636, which I felt I needed to have after it made me laugh out loud in the bookstore.

My favourite page is hard to pick, but I’ll try.

“Sometimes you just have to exercise a little common sense.
(If you feel blue, just start breathing again)”

See the illustrations here. They are really cute!

I’m not outwardly religious most of the time, but I find these videos of Joyce Meyer to be quite helpful sometimes.

“You need to love yourself, because wherever you go, you’ll always be there..”

What I like about Joyce Meyer is that she is strong and confident in what she’s saying.    As she speaks, I think, “Ahh… I am not the only one thinking or doing this”, and I feel good about life and myself.

“I have gifts and abilities”.   Say it every day, even if you don’t know what they are yet.

“I’m not where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be.”  (Thank God I’m not where I could be, I would like to add)

I’m off to “Living Without Frustration”, because.. you know… It’s almost Monday.  

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ”

This movie… highly recommended.     It’s hard to keep me riveted to a movie, especially with my laptop sitting nearby, but this movie was fascinating.  I even took batteries out of my camera and stuffed them into my DVD remote so I wouldn’t miss some things when I absolutely had to walk out of the room for something.

You’ll be snapped out of the plot quick enough to think, “How did they manage the special effects and make-up” before you’re taken back into the storyline again.

My dad wrote something on Gem’s site that I had to read in two parts, basically because I was sobbing one paragraph into it… one sentence into it.    I am trying to think of a fitting thing to do with this post, as I think it’s quite touching.   Any ideas?     

Tears seem to be the way of my day for the last few days.   Yesterday, I had a bad day.   Everything was going wrong, really.    People accused me of potentially ruining their training for the next day.    People were picking on me for not getting things done, when I was constantly busy.   I missed Ian.   

When I heard Ian’s voice, I burst into tears in the middle of work.    “What’s wrong?” he said.   “I don’t know!”, meaning I had a hard time picking the most upsetting issue at the time, but it pretty much narrowed down to one thing:

I had a doctor’s appointment and felt crappy because I knew I would have to get on a scale and didn’t want to.   It’s like an annual competition for me.   I actually postpone my doctor’s appointment until I know I weigh less than the year before.  

So I got to the doctor’s office and he started talking about diet… just because he’s chatty and he picked that topic because he’d been doing research about carbs and losing weight.   He said, “But you don’t need to know that.   Whatever you’re doing is the right thing.   Keep it up.”   

I just stared at him as if he was psychic.

Evidently, I’d lost a decent amount of weight over the last year.     I’m on the “but I don’t WANT to exercise, maybe I’ll try Tae Bo, or maybe not” plan.    It’s not that quick.  Trust me.

I left feeling quite a bit happier.  I think I’m the first person to ever have a breakdown over an annual doctor’s exam for reasonably silly reasons.

Today started out with the more-than-lovely post by my dad, a talk with my boss about dealing with coworkers (a good one) and two training classes that I lead that went quite well, thankyouverymuch!  The best part was nailing the training that was SUCH an unintelligible (in someone else’s opinion) mess yesterday, and watching it work perfectly for everyone except the person who complained.