Challenge 8: No complaining

January 20, 2010

It's Vaughn's birthday today! And so far we're having a lovely and relaxing morning. I didn't have to work like I thought, so I'm free, all day long, to hang out with my man and spoil him. Weeeeeeeeeeee. Tonight we are going to see Cirque Du Soliel "Ova" in the city. Zachary's pizza for dinner. Vaughn's favorite.

Yesterday my challenge was to change my perspective on the things I didn't want to take care of. Although I was able to see different perspectives, I'm not sure that I actually jumped in to new ones. But a funny thing happened while I was trying to think about different perspectives. I found myself surrounded by really nice, really great and really helpful people who eased the situations and made them better. So I think the value here is that by *trying* to change my perspective, I brought in some people to help me. And that felt great.

Last night I was trying to think of what my challenge might be for today. I wanted to pick something that freed me up to do whatever Vaughn wanted to do today. But I think I realized that I might be picking wimpy challenges. So today, I thought of a couple. It's storming really bad here today, so I thought that a good challenge would be to walk the dog our usual mile or two walk in the stormy rain. BUT, I already did that. Just got back. So I couldn't pick it. Then, I thought a good one would be to not use internet all day today, BUT there are some birthday plans that require a little internet usage. So I've come to something. Something I've been trying to work on in general lately is not complain. To not say everything little thing that I'm thinking, not say when I don't feel good, a general keeping of things to myself that don't need to be said. So today, I happen to be in a lot of pain and I'm having a hard time getting some stuff done. But I've decided to keep that to myself (other than telling you all! :-)
I won't mention anything about it unless asked. There it is. A challenge.

Challenge 8: No complaining

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