Confetti

Thank you Maxima for your comment!

An easy life is definitely not equal to a happy life! Strangely, it seems to lie in the very nature of human beings to be habitual. Habits don’t take much effort and provide some comfort because through habits everything stays the same. But being “stuck” as I warned for below, and chosing the easiest possible ways in combination with unchanging habits are often rich soil for discontentment and lack of progress!

To dare to explore new possibilites include taking risks, but this is the key to learning and advancing in all aspects of life! Risking, falling, getting up, looking for new possibilites is the natural life cycle of people who make it in life. Because those who “cycle” don’t always fall when taking that risk! Their cycles are interrupted by the sweetness of success once in a while too!

I believe that people who tend to choose the easiest way or get stuck in their habits lack the ability to fully appreciate the good and beautiful things and moments in life to the full extent that a “cycler” can!

Every new and hard earned experience from breaking free from easy, stuck, and habit may not always end in success, but you still reap the benefits of growing in insight, wisdom, and understanding.

So, your daughter was right! Learning from her mom is great and wise, however, her desire to try her own ways, risking to make her own mistakes in life will hopefully make her a “cycler”!

Taking full ownership of your failures precedes having full ownership of your success!

Where I live (in Sweden) today is graduation day for high school seniors! I had the opportunity to participate in the festivities for a while today as a part of my job! The company I work for gives out a scholarship every year to a student who has been able to successfully come up with an innovative business idea and written an extensive report on it with the business plan included. This year a young woman receieved the 500 dollar scholarship and I got to hold a speech and then hand it over to her. It was a great experience!

I have been to graduation days in the States, but believe me, at least at this high school the atmosphere and the expectations and the celebratory spirit was higher than you can describe with words! So many young men and women, dressed up, and just happy, happy, happy standing at the brink of a new dawn in their lives. I wish them all the very best!

Hard to imagine it was 13 years ago since I graduated from high school. Time is such a strange thing! Sometimes I feel like I have lived many lives in these few past years and then sometimes I feel like life has only just begun. Sometimes I feel like I have all the time in the world and then sometimes I feel like I have no time at all!

To all young people in the world who just now graduated from high school I wish to say:

Take nothing for granted! Learn to be tactic and how to fight for yourself! Appreciate all the good and beautiful things in life for as long as the last! Look for possibilities, especially when you are in the middle of a trial! Don’t get stuck! Realize the value of taking risks and learn how to fall softly! Every day is a rare gift!

Love!

The dawn of a new blog! Yes! Just what the world needs!

I will introduce myself in a little while, however, that is not first on my agenda!

I thought I’d start by writing a blog post about familiar things. (So that you can get hooked -ha, ha! and want to continue to read my blog!)

The other day I planned on going grocery shopping. Just as I had locked the door and put the keys in my pocket to head for my car I could hear the phone ring. I reached in my pocket and the keys were stuck somehow. I managed to get them out, then dropped them on the ground; the phone still ringing. It almost sounded like the signal got more and more aggressive with every ring. I put the key in the lock and just as I unlocked the door, the phone stopped ringing. So, I locked the door again and headed for my car.

I arrived at the supermarket, parked my car and grabbed a shopping cart. As soon as I had placed a few things in it it started making this annoying squeeking sound and grew a will of its own. When I tried to go left it was pulling to the right. I was on the brink of arguing with that defiant cart! I was working hard at trying to focus on what I was doing instead and pretended that I didn’t hear the horrible noise that came from the wheels. I’ll soon be out of here, I told myself.

I shortened my stay at the grocery store. I approached the different cash register lines. I picked the shortest one, of course. The man in front of me had a cart with just a couple of items. When it was his turn he had no cash, but decided to pay with his credit card. Unfortunately, the credit card machine must have had the hick-ups or something because it simply wouldn’t work. So I quickly switched lines when I saw that the line beside me only had two customers waiting. Just as I did that, the machine worked again and instead the machine flu jumped over to the credit card machine in my line and the procedure repeated itself. This time I wouldn’t switch lines, I told myself in my head. Well, six and a half minutes later the lady in cash register closed down my line due to technical complications. On my third try I was finally on my way out of the store.

Well home, I noticed as I unpacked my grocery bags that I had bought quite a few items I normally never buy. For example, instead of the healthy branflakes I eat for breakfast I had manage to pick some sugary yucky choclate flakes. This must have happened as I was struggling not to get into a fight with my provoking cart with it own will and fighting not to hear the sound from it with every little move I made.

Have you been there too? Missing a phone call by the last ring? Picking the wrong cart in the store? Coming home with the wrong stuff in your bag? Or is there some cosmic conspiracy against me?

C ya!

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