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ODAT

One day at a time . . . . I love ODAT. It’s really the only way to go with anything: problems, goals, trips, projects, habits, healing, seasons. “Just for today, I will . . . . .” If you simplify anything down to ODAT, it’s doable. It’s manageable. It’s possible. It’s achievable. ODATs all add up, too. Ask anyone who has started a business, lost weight, kicked addictions, worked through grief, wrote a book, built a house, healed from a disease or an ailment . . . . Today, when you find yourself in a tiz over anything, apply ODAT. Figure out what steps or actions you need to do for this goal or situation, just for today. Let the ODATs take you to where you want to go. ODATS help you to grow. You learn patience, practicality, trust, faith, steadiness, and the ability to create good habits. You learn that your days all add up to your entire lifetime. You learn that you are able to do more in a day than you ever expected. You get planful instead of panic-full. ODAT. Make it part of your vernacular. Make it part of your breathwork. Make it your way of life.

Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.

Here is the question of the day from 3000 Questions About Me:

956. What is the craziest craving you ever had?

One Day at a Time

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I have this sign in my kitchen. I’ve had it for decades. It still doesn’t fail to bring a chuckle to my throat, especially when I need it. I’m a “vacillater” these days. I vacillate between nonchalance, to sheer panic, to pissed-off annoyance, to disbelief, to exhaustion. I’m sort of a spongy person, so I’m taking in all sorts of crazy energy from the outside world right now, and all of the over-stimulation is wearing me out. My guess is that I am not alone in this. Being a Floridian, if seems like the whole world is experiencing what we Floridians go through, every time a big hurricane looms in the horizon. When a hurricane comes through, we want to remain calm, we want to take a measured approach to it all, but at the same time, we don’t want to be “that guy”, the one caught with his pants pulled down. It’s a precarious, fine line to walk. In short, this COVID-19 isn’t all that fun, is it?

In my almost fifty years, I’ve walked through some valleys, some of them dipping pretty deep. We all have, as it’s just part of being human. In uncertain times like this, I find that it’s best for me, to just live ODAT style. Take things, One Day At a Time. So today, I will do my regular chores and duties and routines. I will work on some of our extra house projects that we have going on. I will casually text my sons, who live in other cities, like I do on most days. I will enjoy watching my daughter’s high school tennis match, conversing with the other parents, and then later, I will have a relaxing dinner and evening walk with our dogs and my husband. I hope to close out this evening, quietly and peacefully, finishing up the engrossing book, which I have been reading and enjoying. Today, I will consciously go about my day, with my overall well-being, in mind. Is each activity that I am doing, a good, healthy use of my time and resources, or I am living in anxiety, worrying about the future, by doing fear-mongering activities, like constantly watching the news, or repeatedly checking stock tickers, or worrying about the status of future plans? In order to do my best for myself, for my loved ones and for my community, it is my duty to relax and just do my best – just for today. ODAT. I can do it. Lately, I find myself humming one of my favorite gospel songs. It really is uplifting. Here it is:

Fortune for the day – “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

Stay well, friends! This too shall pass! (Now would be good.)