acceptance

How to Be Mindful When Being Interrupted (by Construction)

When the roofers began to replace our entire roof, they said it would take three to five days to complete. Of course, it could take a bit longer if they were to find more that had to be done. And find more seemed to be their motto. Three to five days stretched into six weeks!

Mindful Monday: How to Accept Things

Last week I talked more about what acceptance actually is. Which is all great and dandy. But how the heck do we do it?

There was a point in my life, before I became an acceptance master. Who am I kidding?! I’m a hard core work in progress on this one. 

But there was a point when I didn’t understand this concept in the slightest. So what did I do? What any modern day human does; I googled “how to accept things.” And every other form of that phrase I could think of. I’m nothing if not thorough in my research. But it didn’t help at all. Google failed me! I was no closer to knowing how to accept anything. 

Mindful Monday: Acceptance Doesn't Mean Letting Bad Things Happen

Acceptance has been on my mind more than usual lately as I’ve struggled to accept certain things in my life and the world as a whole. I’ve also noticed people around me and society as a whole struggle to accept what is. Through these observations, I realized that even though I’ve mentioned acceptance in many of my writings, I’ve never actually defined it or gone into much depth as to what I mean when I say acceptance. 

Mindful Monday: When It's Hard

What mindfulness does is it allows you to see the experience for what it truly is. Without all the extras I was initially throwing on it. Mindfulness in this particular instance was an opportunity for me.

On the Messiness of Life (Or Being the Dirty Kid)

Part of the beauty of life is its messiness and completely involving yourself in that messiness. It’s joyful and sad and frustrating and surprising and exciting and angering and scary and full of love and adventure and challenges and ups and downs.

Mindful Monday: Acceptance

Mindful Monday. On a Tuesday. Yep.

Yesterday I had zero time to write a blog post. Between a heavily booked day and some unforeseen, urgent matters, I wasn’t left with a spare moment. And I hadn’t prepared for that by writing one in advance. Someday I’ll be better about that.

Mindful Monday: Letting Go

At one point in my life, when I was much less mindful, I googled the phrase “how to let go.” It was a lifetime ago, so I don’t remember what I was struggling to let go, but if I was asking google, I must have been struggling.

The google search didn’t turn up much that was useful.

That’s because, as I learned in the years since, there isn’t a set algorithm to letting go.