Good evening/night/morning cloud. I hope everyone is doing well today. I am doing well, thankfully. Its been busy but that’s a good thing. I woke up this morning to my mom calling me to help me work on my presentation. She was nice enough to give me an extra 20 minutes or so of pure sleep time. (Thanks for that mom!) When she called me back we got on Skype and went over what I’m going to do my trainer presentation on to be an “officially certified trainer” instead of the sub trainer they have me as now. So, we went over some basics like, ask them questions instead of talking their ear off and let them participate. Here are a few good questions to use and why and how to use them. It was, honestly, really fun. Plus I got to see my mom instead of just hear her voice, which was pretty cool. One thing I noticed about seeing her vs. just hearing her is I miss her. A bunch.
So, I trained again today which is always fun for me. For some odd reason I love teaching people who are wanting to learn. They have to be wanting to learn the subject though because otherwise I feel as though I’m wasting breath. I’m working to figure out the best way to relay the information and have them retain it instead of it going in one ear and out the other especially when they have class time from 8-11 am, shadow training from 11-2 and my class from 2-4 for 5 days straight. So by these days, their brains are overloaded with stuff and they just want to take a break. Its a pretty intense class but its worth it for the job. We even stayed after 4 so I could go over more stuff with the some of them who wanted a more personalized training session and to go over the finite details. It was good for them so I feel good about it.
After that I went to meet my dad, Joe, Chamelle, and a guy named Mitri that I serve on occasion at this cute little place called Yankee Pizzeria. I like to go on Thursday’s because they have a special every Thursday and the chef serves us every time, so we can change things and it makes it very personable and warm. His name is JP Holland. He’s pretty cool. He likes music a lot so he and my dad get along GREAT! The one thing that was missing tonight was the music that my dad and Joe normally share every time they get together. I love that about them. They get together and they just play and play and sound amazing! Anyway, it was fantastic as usual only it was a little better because we had expanded company. Don’t get me wrong! I love it when its just my dad and me but having Joe and Chamelle there was such a treat. After the great food and better company, my dad and I decided to converse about me and my moving dates and how its going to work and whatnot. We then got on the subject of negativity and how it effects everything around you, normally without you even seeing it. Your beliefs control the way you see life. Like lenses. Rose colored glasses, if you will, only the rose tint would be negativity for all intensive purposes.
After our conversation, I get back home and start watching a movie. Now, I love romantic comedies. I know… I’m such a girl! I started watching What Happens in Vegas, which is a great movie to me. Halfway through the movie I find myself connecting to the character named Joy. She’s a control freak about a lot of stuff. I don’t see myself being quite as bad as she is but I wouldn’t rule it out. I see the way she is responding to the character, Jack, and notice that she is expecting him to be someone he is not going to be nor does he want to be that person. He does the same to her. All throughout the movie they are fighting and not getting along but they also aren’t trying to please the other person. They are just being who they are when they aren’t wanting the person to like them. I realized as I was watching this movie that I had been doing this to someone very important to me. I was wanting this person to be my definition of “mature”. We got into a fight (and we’ve had a couple just on this subject alone) and I was pretty much telling him he shouldn’t be that way and to grow up. Of course he didn’t take that too well but I respect him because he didn’t change who he was but he changed how he related to me. I said it didn’t help because that didn’t change what he was doing it was just hiding it from me. That’s pretty much what I had been asking for though without knowing it. Now, Jack and Joy were so opposite it worked. He got her to live life more and not worry about all the small stuff and Joy got him to believe in himself more so they complimented each other very well in those aspects. They annoyed the hell out of each other especially starting out but then they really saw who the other one was and accepted them fully. It was amazing to see that finally. Out of all the times I have watched that movie, this is really the first time I saw that. Its simply astounding what we can see things in and what we can learn and grow from. I’m so thankful and grateful I’ve gotten to see this finally and I know now I have to actually apply the lesson. I can’t simply see it and let it be because I’ll probably slip right back into my judgements and projections and that’s not my goal in life, so practice it is!
This will be the ending for me tonight. I hope you have all enjoyed my day and maybe you can learn from something and also tell me anything you see that I may have missed. I wish you all a great day if that is what you wish to have tomorrow and peace and love.
Namaste
Simply. Awesome.
Thank you!