Chapter 336

What a wonderful terrible day. Sometimes you want to ask the question, “why can’t we just have some ALL good days thrown in with the mix?” Instead for most of us, each day is a terrible wonderful event. Some great positives and some great negatives. This is the world we live in.

I failed to write the 275 yesterday (that’s a discipline failure not that I had something amazing to write down on virtual paper), yet I got an outside bike ride in, but the car drivers were angry and aggressive, the views were beautiful, but the fear was ever-present, the meeting with the client was wonderful, the meeting with the client was terrible, I saw my grandbabies, but I lost one too, the hug from granddaughter was unexpected and wonderful and wet (she had her swim suit on), but the pain my daughter was in was terrible, the cigar time was beautiful and relaxing, but the conversations were all about problems ( many of their own making). If I give myself a minute here, I am sure that there are 100 other examples as well. Most days are a mixture of the highs and the lows, the great and awful, the wonderful and the terrible.

The point here is that not one of us has much control over these ever-changing flows of life during the course of a day. I am pretty sure I am correct that this is not the part you can control. The only part that I have seen that I can control is how I respond to all these ups and downs. My attitude can be the great equalizer to the unstableness of the flow of the day.

Focus on what you can control.