the wheels on the bus go round and round

Random musings on a gray January day.

Besides pretending you are a spy to make the work day more exciting, I've used another technique to decrease my dread for going to work.  Think of worst job for you, really get in there and think of how horrible it would be to go to that job.  Does your job look as bad now?

Now, if you really have that worst job, hopefully you can use that frustration to find a new job better suited to your personality.  Start looking for it!!!!

Reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living."  Cool book, filled with common sense ideas that have been around for ages, but suprisingly the principles are often forgotten in my life.  One technique he suggested to overcome anxiety was to identify what you were anxious about and then determine the absolute worst thing that could happen.  Now here's the tricky part, when you identify the worst thing that could possibly happen, then you have to accept it.  When you do that, your brain shifts and you can start looking for ways to improve on your situation.  I tried it and its helped me.  I think there is a huge shift and release when you accept the worst that can happen.  If you don't there is this persistent nagging.

Second to last musing, what are you really good at?  For years, I had a dangerous mindset where I thought that the things I was good at, everyone else was probably good at and what challenged me, was probably easy for other people.  Really a no-win situation.  However, after reading countless self-help books, I've come to really get behind the idea that we are all so special and have such unique gifts.  Those things that you are good at and interested at, should really be focused on to reach your potential acme.  Love the story of one ping pong coach, team (little fuzzy on details, but I think I have the gist)  The coach had the players spend time practicing the one skill that they seemed to have a particular knack for.  Rather than say the player mastered that, now he has to master everything else, the coach encourage them to spend hours on that one skill, and the benefits of this unique tactic made them the winningest ping pong team ever (not sure if that parts true, but they were pretty awesome)

Okay last thing, more in the vein of what this blog started out as, feel good moments with sprinkles.  There was a lovely Baskin Robin commercial a few years back.  It showed people in a traffic jam.  People were shown and their thoughts were spoken out loud.  Most peoples minds were zooming with impatience and daily stresses.  Then the camera goes to a man eating an ice cream cone.  All that is playing in his head is "The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round."  So hopefully today you can find those peaceful moments, let all those stresses go, relax and sing the wheels on the bus go round and round.