Another year started.

Another month started.

Another day started.

Another morning started.


Soon another afternoon.


Yet out of all the above we choose to make drastic life changing decisions at just one of these times.
What if YOU were to look at the end of each day and see it from a perspective that  it was the end of a year. What would you do different tomorrow? What would you learn from today. What would you vow to do for your next 24 hours on Earth.

It's a big old task setting yourself up for an annual change. If you sit down and think about this, its like expecting to pole volt without even jumping a fence. A whole new day, a clean slate, every day we get this opportunity. A lot of the time we let yesterdays bad habits  affect today.

We don't do that in a new year. We write it off. Its a complete new page January 1st.

We post an almighty long and meaningful status at the end of a year, evaluating if it's been all we dreamed of , or an all round shit one. It's been good or it's been bad. How can we say it is all good or all bad.
We base our annual decision on what our brains remember, but YOU must remember that your brain brings to the forefront what emotionally makes you imbalanced. Either over excitement, a house move, a new baby, a new job, a new car.... and it also brings to the forefront your worst emotions too, your struggles, your challenge, the people you may have lost, the finical difficulties you have been facing.
This is what our brains file, our emotional imbalances. In the good pile, or the bad pile.

Fact- you use more muscles to frown rather than smile, yet a smile seems much more hard work. Same as thinking positively.

We can not evaluate our years determined on how our brains remember it. The instant gratifications of daily life are overlooked in this process, because we loose it in the paperwork. What about that coffee you actually made with that friend? The time you arrived early instead of late and how it felt, the day you actually drank the water you intended, the gym set you made, the smile you gave when you spoke to a friend. We loose that. We loose that because we expect so much of our lives. We expect so much of our lives because we see facebook telling us how everyone else seems to have the balance right.
No one has this right. No one, because even if someone has it right in their life, that wouldn't be right for yours. How you choose to spend your disposable time and money is down to you , but that wouldn't be how your neighbour chooses to spend it. Money aside, We all only have 24 hours a day to do what makes us fulfilled, you can't be the best tennis player, runner, rugby star, football star, ballerina, best mum, best work college, best reader, blogger,  and best friend too. IT is absolutely impossible.  We do not have to be everything. We do not have to do everything. We do need to feel fulfilled AND fulfilled is the hard part. What makes us feel fulfilled will change after time. Our wants and needs will evolve ... or not and we need to recognise in ourselves how to separate what is and is not important at this stage in life.

That is why at the end of each day, you and I must try to evaluate in the same way we do a each year. We then give ourselves the opportunity to change the bigger picture. What went well today, in my instance, I drank the quota of water I said I would and did not touch a energy drink. I don't feel great but I will persist because I know it's good for me. Not everything that is good for us feels good straight away. We are built to resist change and routine, and the only person who fights this battle is us. What didn't go so great was that I didn't get all done what I wanted to , so I need to look at if I have too much on my task list or if I can manage my time better. This is in my hands to change for tomorrow. If you have already gone off course in your resolution, worry not - tomorrow is a new day.

Evaluate daily so we can summarise the end of year with a true data base of facts, not simply by the memories that stick out the most. We must keep walking, whether the road takes us back from where we came from, sends us right, left or gives us a dead end, we still have options to keep on walking.

keep walking, with that in mind it was something I did yesterday with the dog. Did not go to plan.

As she's like a teenager now things are getting a little more tricky with behavioural issues. Like at Christmas. When she decided to eat a wooden bauble. I have never had to Heimlich a person before, but I feel a little more confident in doing this with dogs now after that episode. As she lay on her back not being able to breath instincts took over. I threw her over my arm and started to pat ( hit) her on the back. A rocking horse head flew out of her mouth, I really loved that vintage bauble but it had no good use in the back of her throat. Shaking I thought, can't believe that just happened she was actually choking on a ornament, thought I might get a cuddle, but no, I got her teeth shown to me in anger. I could not help but think, Ungrateful Bitch.
As she stood there with her teeth out I noticed the rest of the wooden ornament was stuck in her gums and there was no way I was putting my mouth near that hormonal thing. Off to the vets iw go in my pj's for her to be  sedated and removal of the horses arse from her teeth. IF there ever were a story to tell a dog and them understand that would be top of the list. . . Remember the day you went to have a horses arse removed from your mouth. One for the grandkids I suppose.

Back to the walk- As I took her off the lead she ran off all happy... and kept running all happy... and didn't come back. She had me running around screaming her name for 30 minutes. Highly entertaining for her to run as fast as she could, touch me with her paw like tag then run off.. Once she realised she was safe from being caught  she came and stole the poo bag out my hand. This only made me angrier, each time she ran back and tagged me a bits off poo were flicking all up my leg. Again adding to the frustrations of this walk, which is now a run. I started to run away from her. This excited her more. To control the situation I had to hide in a bush and wait for her to find me before I could sumo wrestle her to put her lead back on.
Had this have been happening to anyone else I would have found it highly entertaining, however, it was happening to me , and I'm sure we are guilty of not appreciating the humour in something when we are the butt of the joke.

IF I have a re run of that today, tonight I will be evaluating that me husband can walk the dog indefinitely and that will fix that.

I hope today is a clean slate for you. One in which you can look back on tonight, enjoy the day that has passed and figure out how to be exactly or more so fulfilled with your achievements tomorrow.
Happy New Day. Happy New day. Happy New afternoon.

MRS B