Beautiful Mess
The term “hot mess” gets thrown around a lot. I hear friends say it, and even I have used it from time to time. We usually use it to describe the way we look, how we are dressed, our homes current state of cleanliness, our careers, the list goes on.
The Google dictionary definition is, “hot mess: a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered.”
I am a personal development junkie!! And one of the things that I always talk to people about is how they talk to themselves. Positive self-talk makes a world of difference in how you run your day and how you feel throughout the day. If something goes wrong, you are able to handle it a million times better if you are talking to yourself positively.
Self-talk is automatically running thoughts through our head all day long that can be positive or negative. Some of your self-talk comes from logic but a lot of times it comes from the stories we make up in our head or from the lack of information we have.
As I have been working on my own life and health recently, I learned about a few stories that I had completely made up from things that were happening around me as a child. No one ever said anything to me about certain situations; it was all my observations and interpretation of what I thought I should be doing. More than that, I carried those stories with me for many years. When I sit back and reflect on that, I see how it has impacted my life both positive and negative in so many ways. The key is awareness. Every time you have a negative thought, stop and ask yourself where it came from and notice how it has affected your life. This is how we stop these patterns. Heading toward addressing those stories and more positive thinking can have some great benefits for your life and your health!
If anyone got to see my color-coordinated Google calendar you would probably run away. It took me a long time to be able to systematize and organize my life and all the things I have a desire to do. But once I got there it now works as smoothly as it ever could. I’ve spent years of my life not being present because I was so worried about what my life should look like, trying to please everyone else around me. Only when I stopped in a spinning vortex and took one step out could I see what I needed and wanted out of this one life I have.
So, last year I started describing my life as a “BEAUTIFUL Mess” because the fact of the matter is YES, life is very messy!! But life is also very BEAUTIFUL! I have learned to count all the blessings and start and end the day with a grateful heart!
asha
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