I got this idea from this site:
http://www.soulpancake.com/post/1359/spring-cleaning-your-soul.html
Hmmm....Spring seems finally to be here! Hip Hip Hooray! I think I will try to keep this in a positive direction rather than focusing in the negative. Spring is a great time to try new things. And my newest thing is an electric bike. I have seen a few movies about stepping lighter on the earth and while walking is perhaps the "lightest steps" (pun intended) we can take transportation-wise, an electric bike still beats the heck out of a 5 passenger SUV carrying one person. So, I get to be outdoors, using my legs to power my bike (with the battery power assisting me as I need it, sigh of relief) and it is just darn fun! Having not really ridden a bike since I was a kid (maybe a few times as an adult that were not long or not pleasant) riding makes me feel young again! AND I don't feel AS guilty when I eat extra dessert now. ^^giggle^^
Let's see...I'm really trying to practice what I read about love and patience and understanding. It's one thing to read something, another thing to know something and an even greater thing to practice something. I pat myself on the back for finally going to visit an old friend in the nursing facility in which he dwells. (I will not berate myself for it taking me almost 2 years because I am keeping positive!)
I am restructuring my life to include time for me! This means not working for every person who "needs me to help them because they really need help." Because guess what?! I REALLY NEED HELP! Don't get me wrong. I LOVE helping people, but I have not evolved to the point where I can cope well if I don't save enough time to take care of my own business and health.
We all need help and I can sacrifice some, in fact I do quite often, but I cannot sacrifice continually. I will sink.
So here is to staying afloat! Ahoy!
3 comments:
Sounds great! Are you wearing a helmet?
BTW, I wrote a comment on your "childhood is great" post, but it got lost because I was at work, and the whole google account sign-in thing got messed up. So I'm just going to do this one as anonymous.
Love, Tag
I AM wearing a helmet most of the time. Have done a few quick zips in the parking lot without one, but out really riding I definitely wear one.
I realized after the fact that they make bikes with gears AND electric batteries. I maybe should have done more homework/research to find that out, because that way, eventually I could ride it even without the battery, whereas this one I could absolutely not go up a hill without the battery. don might be able to help Hunter add a battery to his current bike. Don has a homemade one that works real well.
Yay for me time! and positivity.
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