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Transforming My Mind
Kathy1952
Published on May 11, 2013
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Internet Down All Week
I had no internet access all week. To make matters worse, in the end it was simply due to the incompetence of my service provider. Talk about peaking my already frustrated brain!
Mindless Tasks
My daughter recently raided the 99 Cent Store with some new little gadgets. But my kitchen cupboard was so jam packed, I had no place to put them. I had already made a mental note on my "when I have nothing else to do list" that I would clean out the kitchen cupboards to make room for these oh so important 99 cent items.
Oh, no internet?
Time to check that mental list. Ah, a mindless task. I wouldn't have to think, right? NOT! Among the containers with no lids and the lids with no containers, I had too much time to think!
Negative Thinking
I'm a negative thinker. I know this because I recently took a test online that told me so. Note to self: need to work on that. So, while I'm sorting and discarding and wondering if I'll ever need whatever this one thing I'm looking at is, my mind was feeding me very disgruntling thoughts.
Small Hole Becomes Bigger
In my mind (mind you) negative thoughts began making a small hole in my kitchen floor. My natural instinct was to then step in the hole. Negative. Sinking. Negative. Sinking. Negative. Sinking. Soon I was in the bottom of this dark pit of my own making with containers and lids tumbling in on top of my head.
The Power of the Mind
The mind is an interesting contraption. Whatever it thinks, the subconscious mind believes, good or bad. So, it kind of forms your reality or your alternate reality. That's why positive thinking is so important and negative thinking is, well, a deep dark pit of mindless containers and lids falling on your head.
What I Discovered in my Mindless Wanderings
I subscribe to this free weekly newsletter at mindtools.com. It's a pretty cool site with lots of articles on time management, stress management and other related issues. They want you to join, of course, but I have found that the free stuff is loaded with great information like how to be a positive thinker.
Working on My Real Reality
Taking a positive attitude, I will say that my time with no internet access and too much time to think (negatively) has given me the inspiration to change my alternate reality of negative thinking into my real reality of positive thinking. I am working on it and (positive thought) I know I can accomplish anything I want to do.
Order
My internet is working again. Most of my kitchen cupboards are straightened now and every container has a lid. The oddballs went in the trash along with my negative thoughts. There is now order in my world again.
I had no internet access all week. To make matters worse, in the end it was simply due to the incompetence of my service provider. Talk about peaking my already frustrated brain!
Mindless Tasks
My daughter recently raided the 99 Cent Store with some new little gadgets. But my kitchen cupboard was so jam packed, I had no place to put them. I had already made a mental note on my "when I have nothing else to do list" that I would clean out the kitchen cupboards to make room for these oh so important 99 cent items.
Oh, no internet?
Time to check that mental list. Ah, a mindless task. I wouldn't have to think, right? NOT! Among the containers with no lids and the lids with no containers, I had too much time to think!
Negative Thinking
I'm a negative thinker. I know this because I recently took a test online that told me so. Note to self: need to work on that. So, while I'm sorting and discarding and wondering if I'll ever need whatever this one thing I'm looking at is, my mind was feeding me very disgruntling thoughts.
Small Hole Becomes Bigger
In my mind (mind you) negative thoughts began making a small hole in my kitchen floor. My natural instinct was to then step in the hole. Negative. Sinking. Negative. Sinking. Negative. Sinking. Soon I was in the bottom of this dark pit of my own making with containers and lids tumbling in on top of my head.
The Power of the Mind
The mind is an interesting contraption. Whatever it thinks, the subconscious mind believes, good or bad. So, it kind of forms your reality or your alternate reality. That's why positive thinking is so important and negative thinking is, well, a deep dark pit of mindless containers and lids falling on your head.
What I Discovered in my Mindless Wanderings
I subscribe to this free weekly newsletter at mindtools.com. It's a pretty cool site with lots of articles on time management, stress management and other related issues. They want you to join, of course, but I have found that the free stuff is loaded with great information like how to be a positive thinker.
Working on My Real Reality
Taking a positive attitude, I will say that my time with no internet access and too much time to think (negatively) has given me the inspiration to change my alternate reality of negative thinking into my real reality of positive thinking. I am working on it and (positive thought) I know I can accomplish anything I want to do.
Order
My internet is working again. Most of my kitchen cupboards are straightened now and every container has a lid. The oddballs went in the trash along with my negative thoughts. There is now order in my world again.
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