100 Slips of Good Intentions....Stop with the lables!!

100 Slips of Good Intentions by Jean Hart

100 Slips of Good Intentions.......

"If you want to grow beyond yourself you must take action in those things that motivate you."

It's so easy to say I don't have time to do something. I say it all the time to myself. I don't want to of course is a whole other issue.

I'm watching the TED Lectures now. I love them. I find them to be interesting and encouraging and inspiring. Many of these people come to be successful because something in their life has changed or ended and they must now make a new direction for themselves.

Defining myself is tough. How do I want to be seen. Both answers have limits I put on myself. Asking others to define me is even worse.

I read many things that say "Believe in yourself". Even that statement confuses me. So this year I have gone on a hunt to see what is it that I do believe. How do I define myself. And sadly to say what labels do I want to be associated with me. "Stop with the labels"......I find it hard to believe that you can define anything without putting a label on it.

Believe. It's a powerful word. Mostly I want to believe  I have choices. I want to also believe that I can make wise choices. 

In my recovery I have a lot of down time. I read a lot. So here is an interesting thing that has happened to me. I went to the library and started to browse through children's books.  Yes, even though I have no small children at home any longer, I went to the children's library.

FASCINATING BOOKS!!!

These books are full of adventures, and heroes and really can do people.

Can I really be reading these fun and simple books and be learning life lessons that I must have missed in my adult life???

Believe in fairy tales for what the can teach you about real life. Believe in happy ends. All ends are truly what you think they are, happy or sad, you choose.

Believe in something,  anything that gives you hope and inspiration to keep going.

So even though I'm watching TED Lectures with the most brilliant minds and creative encouragements, I'm reading children's literature so I can come back to believing, I can be strong, healthy, happy and wise.

Happy Reading.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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100 Slips of Good Intentions

100 slips of good intentions......


Jax cat leaving the castle for the first time....

"Be curious like a cat."  
Oh I love this one for the week.
The Internet offers so much help to look up interesting things instantly.
Here are a few interesting things I'm curious about:
1. Everything French.....I looked up air fairs to Paris. It's not as expensive as you might think!! ;-))

2. Books. I went to Amazon punched in french books and came away with a lot of books both in English and French.

 http://www.amazon.com/The-Paris-Wife-A-Novel/dp/0345521307/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334071989&sr=1-1#reader_0345521307
A love story, the story about Hemingway's first wife.
3. Poems. I love poems. I looked up spring poems, love poems, poppy poems, and poems about cats!!! hee hee, there are poems about any subject you can think of.

The Cat of Cats

I am the cat of cats. I am

The everlasting cat!

Cunning, and old, and sleek as jam,

The everlasting cat!

I hunt vermin in the night-

The everlasting cat!

For I see best without the light-

The everlasting cat!

William Brighty Rands

5. I'm now listening the TED lectures on the computer. These are the most interesting people who give free lectures about their successes, lives and encouragements.

 

Well, you see where I'm headed with all this. This weeks little "Good Intention" is an encouragement for me to get myself moving into a new direction. Winter always leaves me a little tired.

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Be Inspired,

~Jean

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1