Monday Coffee Talk

Good Monday morning my friends!  What an awesome day.  The birds are singing, the sun is shining, there is magic in the air.  No!  I'm not in some dream world.  I'm being positive!  Today is going to be the BEST day of our lives.

That is our challenge today.  To be positive.  There is TOO MUCH negativity in our world today.  If we could share some positive things and be a positive person everyday, not just today, but everyday, what a wonderful world we could have.  Negative people are shunned.  Negative people bring you down.  Have you ever felt good, then got around someone who just constantly complained?  When you left them, you felt worse than they did.  You were negative after being around them?  Well, you share positiveness today.  You be positive and rub off on someone today.  I know we can do this one.  Don't grumble and complain today.  Be positive.  Even if you have so much negative going on in your own life, if you will think positive and speak positive, you can turn those negative situations around.  There is life and death in the power of your words!

So, who's up this morning?  What cha sipping on? Me?  I'm loving me some Maxwell House regular blend.  It'****ting the spot this morning too.  Sure is good!

Ya'll go out and have a WONDERFUL and POSITIVE Monday!  Be blessed!

What a great message Randall!  This is one of those areas that I really struggle with and it's great to have you remind us of it again.  There is so much in life to be positive for and instead of always looking at what's wrong, I need to continue to focus on all of the things that are right.  Thank you for your inspirational words and also for being a great example of all the challenges you put out there. 

I'm not drinking anything yet today, but soon I will hit the water and Crystal Light.  Each day I adjust more to my pouch and am able to take in more water (or the same amount of water more easily).  Still, as a new post-op, there's not much room in my pouch yet to drink anything other than water.

Have a beautiful day everyone!

This is a very good thought for me today!  THANK YOU!!!  (says she who just dumped 40lbs of dog food in the bumper pool table)  lol 

So instead of cleaning it up right away, I'm giving the dogs extra time outdoors to play and sipping a nice cup of Maxwell house Columbia with SF french vanilla creamer  :)

*hugs!*

I am signed up for these daily meditations from Hazelden.  They are meant for alcoholics in recovery but I just change the wording for my journery through wls surgery and they are very helpful.  So today when I was reading your post it reminded me of one of the daily meditations they just sent that I thought was helpful.

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Limited expectations yield only limited results.
- Susan Laurson Willig

Our thoughts determine our actions, and when our thoughts are negative, our successes are few. What we hold in our mind is certain to be reflected in the day's activities. And we are capable of fueling our thoughts positively, if we choose to.

Positive self-assessment and uplifting pep talks can become habitual if our desire to live up to our potential is great enough. The expectations we privately harbor, be they small or far-reaching, will set the pace for the progress we make today, and every day.

We can greet a challenge with eager anticipation when we've grown accustomed to believing in our capability for success. First, we must expect to handle, with poise, whatever confronts us.

No one but me determines my course today. My success begins in my mind.

If anyone else is interested in receiving these you can sign up at http://www.hazelden.org/web/go/register

Good Morning Randall.....eeeerrrrr afternoon!!

I am soooo behind today. Alot of catching up on my job to do!!

Love the challenge...you come up with the best ones. This is just what I needed to hear today! I will work hard on this one!!

Hugs, connie d