{"id":731,"date":"2010-08-04T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2010-08-04T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:11:00","slug":"mid-week-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

My brain is full of ideas right now. I have a number of projects cooking and dividing my time so that each of them has my focus is proving rather challenging. I’m not complaining. This is a Cadillac problem, folks. And yet I do need to simplify in order to stay on track.<\/p>\n

What have I got in the tool kit to keep it simple? Here are a few good ones:<\/p>\n

One Day at a Time:<\/strong> I can only do what I can do today. I can only ever accomplish the task at hand. I can’t work in the future. I can’t get things done next week. If I stay in today, if I do the next right thing, I will achieve all that I am supposed to in this day in which I am now living.<\/p>\n

Don’t Push: <\/strong>I don’t have to make<\/em> anything happen. I am not the Maker. If I am forcing myself or forcing outcomes I have somehow ended up in the Driver’s Seat. Pushing feels like stress. Physically, pushing feels like tightness and tension. Pushing often creates the opposite response: lethargy. Rather than push, I can practice letting go.<\/p>\n

Letting Go:<\/strong> I’m going to re-word a quote from one of my mentors, Sister Helen Prejean<\/a> (who wrote Dead Man Walking<\/em>), who said “Forgiveness is a path. It’s not an act.” Letting go<\/em> is a path, it’s not an act. I need to walk this path everyday. We don’t learn how to let go once and then become masters. We cultivate the ability<\/em> to let go. We practice. We surrender our desire to be in control whenever we remember<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Life:<\/strong> What a concept.<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day:<\/strong><\/em> What is the task at hand? I will do it. What is the outcome? None of my business. Am I enjoying my Life? Only when I truly Surrender and Let Go Absolutely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, My brain is full of ideas right now. I have a number of projects cooking and dividing my time so that each of them has my focus is proving rather challenging. I’m not complaining. This is a Cadillac problem, folks. And yet I do need to simplify in order to stay on track.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[536,540,816,325,537,817,538,539,535,520,534],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dead-man-walking","tag-enjoy-life","tag-inspiration","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-let-go-and-let-go","tag-motivation","tag-one-day-at-a-time","tag-relax","tag-sister-healan-prejean","tag-surrender","tag-tools-fro-daily-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}