This had been a tough period of my life and of our lives as our new "norm" continues to change, sometimes very slowly and sometimes quickly. The changes seem like we've reached a plateau of improvement or change and then boom! Suddenly we're morphing and changing again, sometimes at warp speed.
The past couple weeks have given me some insight of the internal inner fight each of us can have. I have been religiously working on my physical therapy exercises. I am now walking in the house and out of the house without my walker and gaining some confidence. I have to be careful because this is the time when it is so easy to be over confident. Then one good fall changes everything and I'm back a month. It is amazing to be how much further down the ground is than when I was 4 years old. Falling was a way of life growing up.
We have so much ranging from home health care to visitors to other appointments and my beloved schedules everything (with color coding). This week I have two office visits at the Kaiser Roseville.
Today we had some friends over for a birthday celebration and my wife put on a world-class meal. When she has people over for a meal she will always fix something brand new to explore news foods and new tastes. He aced this meal!
This week I was talking to one of my friends who asked me for advice. I reminded her that I consider advice to be the highest form of "Insanity." She asked me for some feedback about someone we both knew. This was about some issues she had and much of her talking was regarding events from the past. I had two problems with that. First of all the events are over and done. My only reminder to her was the truth we are not facing backwards so we need to work in the direction we are headed. The other is that feedback I give her on her issues with our friend only serves two purposes - neither of which I choose to participate in. First it is triangulation if I talk to her about him. I can talk to him about him and to her about her. She needs to talk to him about the issue. Secondly sharing the issues is almost like looking for witnesses to support her cause. The job is to keep moving forward.
Caitlin Clark, the Iow woman's basketball star, is very articulate. They interviewed her before one of the national semi-final games. She talked about staying in the present and I loved how she put it. She said it is up to us to "be where our feet are!" Such a simple statement but it behooves having balance in our lives. In playing basketball and tennis, one of the protocols was to always have your feet balanced for the proper shot. You've got to be in perspective in the right place which is in the now. You've got to have a clear vision of the goal you want. You've got to have action to attain the goal. So how are you doing?
Do you have places that are littles blockages in your head? Places that things are not getting done because you are living in the past? Move on.........
Pick one that is that infernal internal mosquito bite; the one that itches and itches. Put energy on taking the next step and then take the next step. You will feel so much better.
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