What Do Youtube,
Hershey Kisses, and TRL Have In Common?
I used to hate Mondays. As a little girl, I
thought the Adaams family should have named their daughter Monday instead of
Wednesday- Mondays were grim for me. I never was a coffee drinker, but not even
Starbucks would have made me enjoy Mondays.
Now I no longer dread Mondays. I can’t say I prefer Monday to
Friday, but I enjoy Mondays a lot more than I used to. Here’s an interesting
Monday statistic: A survey in 2011 reported that the average person complains
for about 34 minutes on a Monday morning, compared to 22 minutes on other days.
And I also found out that “Monday” is a slang term for a large, heavy
sledgehammer…
On the bright side, you can usually
buy cars cheaper on Mondays. And Mondays, statistically, have less rain. Eddie
Murphy was born on a Monday. It really depends on how you view it. I read a
story about people being stuck in traffic. Many people complained and were
miserable, which was understandable considering they had been in traffic for 2
hours! And yet, there was a man who wasn’t affected by any of it. He was
singing along to the radio, and drinking soup from a thermos. He said during
the interview: I wasn’t even thinking about the traffic! I was thankful I had a
nice cup of soup, and music to listen to.
We choose how we react to
situations. Law of Attraction states that every thought we think is creating
our future, and that our feelings are an indication of whether we are on an
optimal path towards what we want. We want “things” (could also be intangible,
such as good relationships) because we believe we’ll feel happy when we get
them. The secret is to feel happy before you
get “things”, and then “things” will come to you. When I first heard about Law
of Attraction I wanted to believe it, but it seemed too good to be true. And
then I realized it truly does work :)
Happiness, for me, didn’t happen
overnight. It took years for me to become happy. For much of my life, every day
felt like a Monday; I would wake up feeling like I was about to take my SAT’s.
On the day of my SAT’s, I ended up having to retake it because I walked out of
the testing room. Thinking back, I would love to hug my teenage self and tell
myself “everything will be fine.”
And it truly will be fine. You might
be late for work and your boss yells at you, but it doesn’t have to ruin your
day or even your mood. Don’t think about it. It may be initially difficult to
“pivot” negative thoughts, but try it and see how you do. You may be surprised
to find it easier than you think! One good way to “pivot” is to think of
something else entirely different, like these random facts:
1 The
following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God
2 Hippopotamus milk is pink
3 A small
child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
4 The first
alarm clock could only ring at 4am
5 Betty
Crocker isn’t a real person
6 Mel Blanc
– the voice of Bugs Bunny – was allergic to carrots.
7 Before
Gmail, “G-Mail” was the name of a free email service offered by Garfield’s
website.
8 The dots
on dice and dominoes are called 'pips.'
9 Michael J
Fox’s middle name is “Andrew”
10 Gadsby is
a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright with over 50,000 words. It’s written
without any words that contain the letter “e”.
Once we
shift our focus, it becomes easier to think positive thoughts. When negative
thoughts enter my mind, I often pivot by thinking of puppies. It’s easier to
think of something unrelated to the issue (such as puppies); stress sets in
when we try to come up with immediate, perfect solutions. Once we start feeling
better, it becomes easier and easier to latch onto positive thoughts. And then
we’re on a roll, or in “the vortex”. We’ve all been there before, when things
are “just right”, when everything is fun. The good news is we can stay in “the
vortex” if we choose; being happy is a choice. We all have the right to “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.
This post
would not have made sense to me as a 14 year old. As a teenager I suffered from
severe depression and OCD. My book (links below) details my journey from
severely depressed to consistently happy.
By the way,
Youtube, Hershey’s Kisses, and TRL were all launched on Monday :)
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