I wanted to create a visual to go with the idea for my next seminar. Here's what popped into my head:
Each moment is like a pearl, precious and unique. For the most part, we get to create that pearl by how we decide to process what's happening around us. Even if what's going on is annoying or hurtful, we get to choose how we're going to take it in. Remember even a pearl is formed in an oyster by covering up an irritation. Beauty from pain, how great is that?
We get to create moment after moment of wonderful 'pearls' and we get to string them together to make our life. What does your strand look like? Is it so full of beautiful moments that you have to wrap the string of pearls around a couple of times to wear it? Beautiful to wear, beautiful to give as a gift?
Or are you creating overly dramatic moments, full of complaining, blaming, justifying, negativity and stress? That unhealthy set of pearls will literally choke the joy right out of you - a choker if you will.
What kind of pearls do you choose? I know which ones I want. I originally wrote this sitting by the Cape Cod Canal in the fog (it was supposed to be a sunny day!) with a twisted knee and a close to dead cell phone. But it was my moment so I chose to be happy, healthy and positive because it's my life, my pearl.
Good news is it works - for me, for the thousands of teens who have been through the Stragegies for Success program, and for the many others who choose to embrace this way of thinking. It can work for you too!
Keep shining!
Marianne
PS...Having trouble staying in the positive, keeping the stress at bay? I'll be sharing the strategies I use myself including some of the newest I just learned at my next seminar coming up in October. Stay tuned!
