One Week In!

We're officially a week into this blog! It's only been a week, but I feel luckier already. I don't think that it has anything to do with life being better or worse in and of itself. Just the exercise of counting our blessings and thinking about how the bad isn't really that bad has already helped change my perception. Since I've started listing the lucky things in life, I find myself keeping track all day of the good. It's more on the forefront of my mind, and easier to return to when I lose it. I've not even been remembering a lot of the bad stuff that's happened.

For example, one of my partners was upset with me at work. He shared several critical comments with me after a minor blunder. Typically, something like that will start a negative cycle in my thoughts. I've often ended up feeling hopeless, dwelt on my faults or errors, and wasted a lot of valuable time and energy worrying about an event that I can't change before I came up with a plan to fix the defective habit and moved on.

This seems to be working and I'm very excited.

Here's seven bits of luck, just to keep it on an roll.

How I was Lucky:

1. I learned that the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie comes out tonight. How lucky is that? I completely lost track of time, so it's almost as if I didn't have to wait at all!

2. Two people called in at work asking to start the process of becoming a client here. I always count myself lucky when parts of the business cycle happen on their own.

3. I happened upon a bouquet of roses for Belle at the grocery store. Most of the roses were a bit shady, but I happened to glance at the diamond in the rough.

4. Gas dropped a few more cents per gallon.

5. We found an abundance of amazing houses that we'd like to look at.

6. Missouri is now a Long-Term Care Partnership state and didn't change any of the requirements for qualifying policies. This is fantastic news for my clients and thus fantastic news for me since all their policies already conform to the state rules. All the necessary changes can be made with a few signatures.

7. I'm most lucky to have married Belle. I couldn't ask for a more wonderful person in my life.

How it could have been worse:

1. Belle isn't feeling well and went to the doctor. They're not 100% sure yet but they think that it's something antibiotics will clear up. The good news is that they've ruled out catastrophic things like cancer.




How were you lucky today? How were you fortunate that things could be much worse?