I forgot the importance of this message and experienced a great reminder of it today. The past few weeks have been very busy and stressful for me and I almost felt like I was on a steady downfall from how I felt before starting this blog. When I first started writing on this blog I was full of energy, confidence and I felt balanced both mentally and physically. As the weeks progressed I started to lose sight of my goal. I started to decrease my physical activity, started partying more, started eating unhealthy foods and started thinking about myself less, which slowly started to bring on stress, lack of proper sleep and started draining my energy.
Today in the other hand, I decided to start reading on my commute to school again. I like to read the books of Robin Sharma (who I was introduced to by a college friend of mine who I felt was personally balanced both physically and mentally). The current book that I am in the middle of reading again is The Saint, The Surfer and the CEO. The message in most of Robin Sharma's books are mainly to improve not only yourself, but also your surroundings. I was reminded today of the importance to start your day off on a positive note and to keep a positive outlook towards the rest of your day.
This morning for me was pretty stressful. I woke up extra early today for school so that I can be early for class instead of always being late. My plan was to be early, but TTC's plan was to have a delay on the subway line. It set me back 30 mins, which made me late for school. But before the delay happened, I was already deep into the pages of my book and have already read the message "Always start your day on a positive state." When the delay occured, I was very frustrated because recently it seems that no matter how I plan out my day, there's always some sort of delay! I just decided to take on the message of the book and see things in a more positive way.
I figured that the delay gave me an opportunity to slow my rush-rush day and give me some time to think. I thought about what I wanted to accomplish by the end of the week, and what I wanted to do for myself by the end of the week. If the delay never happened, I would have still been in a continuous "rushed" state and just carried on with my busy day.
Having that positive outlook on my day rewarded me with my instructor not being mad at me for being late, in fact, we had a great talk afterwards on how I can boost up some of my marks! Having a positive outlook on my day also gave me the energy to stay awake and give my full attention to my other professor during class, when usually I would be too tired to even stay awake lol.
When I woke up this morning, I also told myself that "Today's turn out is whatever I make it to be." And I decided to make it a positive one...
this is why i started blogging. at the end of the day (or beginning or middle...) i focus on something, anything, no matter how small, that was a happie. it puts things into perspective and is usually good for a smile! xoxo
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