There is always enough going wrong in my day, so I have decided to look for what is going right instead. If I can find things that are going well, even during difficult times, it keeps me moving forward. It would be easy to focus on what is going wrong but then I would just want to sit down and cry and what good would that do? Instead, I think I’ll look for the positive opportunity hidden in the challenge and see if I can’t turn it all around.

An example is the other day when I forgot to do the laundry. Unfortunately, the next day I was feeling under the weather and the laundry still didn’t get done. By the time I finally got to it, we had four loads instead of the two I had planned for and it took most of the day. It was an overwhelming task that got in the way of the other things I needed to be doing. I have to admit that I did spend a few minutes kicking myself for letting it pile up on me but then just took it on and got it done.

Instead of focusing on what was wrong, having to do the laundry, I decided to look at it as found time and did some reading while waiting for the loads to finish. I let go of other worries and the day actually became quite restful. Things got even better when my husband, after watching me work so hard on the laundry all day, decided we needed to go out to dinner. Things going wrong turned into things going very right that day!