This too passed

Well,  yesterday worked out much better than I expected.  As the past has proven to me,  it was never as bad as I imagined it to be.  I was able to focus on small sections of the day and not think too much about what may or may not transpire.  I worked like an animal on the aerator.  I aerated five big properties,  my right hand and wrist were feeling it at the end of the day.  I could have switched with someone but,  I really wanted just to be by myself and focus on the job at hand.  There is something therapeutic about working by myself,  I find it much easier to block out negative energy.  Only two and half more months left and then some well deserved time off.  Cannot wait to spend some quality time with Jodi and Ollie.

We had a interesting experience on Saturday at Tim Hortons in Milton.  Jodi and I went down in the morning to watch Elias in the Tri Tri event at a local high school.  It was amazing to see the depth of the participation and how smoothly everything ran.  Elias did amazing and we had a blast cheering him on.  We went to Tim's afterwards to have breakfast and coffee with the Chapman's.  The store was crazy busy.  The lady running our till was friendly enough but, that was the extent of the positive experience.  Firstly, we had to wipe down our own tables as the store was filthy dirty.  We had to wait twenty minutes for our food order.  The bagel belt and breakfast sandwiches tasted horrible.  The hash browns were ice cold.  I took them back for new ones only to have them simply put them through the heaters.  And to top it all off,  Jodi found a hair in her cup.  Good times for sure.  I feel badly for the employees as the store itself is not big enough to handle the volume of patrons that walk through the doors.  There is a systematic failure in the way it is run and we will not be going back there any time soon.

I have started to adjust my mind set in varying situations to help me succeed.  Often times,  I get frustrated when I have a distinct idea of how things should unfold and I get frustrated immensely when they do not unfold the way I imagined them.  I am starting to project varying outcomes for different situations in my head so that I am not disappointed when things do not go according to the plan.  I do get frustrated easily so this seems to be helping me a bit transition better through the course of the day.  I also have started to embrace the shit which may sound funny.  It relates to a constant issue I was having at work.  I was always stepping in dog shit at some of the properties we work on.  It really pissed me off and my mood would get affected.  Then,  I started embracing the fact that there was a good chance I may step in some during the week.  Once I just accepted this fact,  I have not worried about it as much.  I am going to attempt to apply that notion to every day life,  embrace the inevitable shit that happens.  There is nothing I can do about it other than accept the fact that it happens and move forward with a better mind set.

I am looking forward to catching up on some baseball tonight.  Their are a few play off races that have my eye on and am really looking forward to the A's and Tigers tonight.  I have managed to catch up on some sleep today so I might even make the seventh inning.

Hope the rest of your week is filled with great promise.   Take care,  Shawn.

Positivity will take you further in life than negativity.