Grateful

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Here I am sitting in the Tulsa airport waiting to work a flight back to Dallas and then on back home to NYC… this seems to be a pretty consistent theme with this job, hurry up and wait. But here are a few things that I am learning in this new adventure. 

  1. I am not that go with the flow as I would like to think I am. 

  2. I really like knowing what is going to happen, like all the time! 

  3. I am learning to be okay with not having all the details.

  4. I am learning to be okay with just being by myself.

  5. I am learning to be grateful for even the ridiculous moments like taking the train in the wrong direction and having to get off at the next station and figure out which train and platform to walk to lol which has happened quite often. Lets just say me and google maps are really tight ;)

  6. I am learning to be okay with change - to not look at it as difficult, although it has been, but to find the good things, the growth, the new exciting things instead of everything not going the way I expect. 

  7. I am learning to find new ways to find routine and consistency in the midst of there being no routine and consistency.

  8. I am learning that flying all the time really isn’t as glamorous as it seems! 

  9. I am learning that when you do have time with those you love to make the absolute most of it! 

  10. I am re-learning to practice gratitude in every little twist and turn of my very unknown and a little crazy life these days. 

It really is all about perspective. I have had to make the conscience choice, sometimes with a little encouragement from those closest to me, to be grateful for all of the things I am getting to experience. Our mindset is so very important, our thoughts really do direct our lives. For years now my Dad has reminded me that gratitude is the antidote to worry and anxiety. We literally cannot be grateful and worried at the same time. What are you allowing your thoughts to dwell on, what is consuming all of your attention? Is it on all of the what ifs, the negatives, the things that haven’t gone the way you expect them to go? Or are you making a conscious choice, it is a choice ya’ll, to be grateful no matter what the circumstance? I realize that it is easier said than done but you still have a choice. I am choosing to practice gratitude today even when I don’t feel like it!