The Top Ten Things I Learned From the Pandemic

July 18, 2020

1) I am not in charge of the whole world and everything in it. I am only in charge of me. When I obsess over everything happening everywhere, I make myself CRAZY. 

2) Getting outside makes me happy, so I try to do that for at least a little bit every day. 

3) The same goes for listening to or creating music. 

4) I see more of what I focus on. If I focus on the things I can’t do, what I don’t have in my life, who I miss, I’m miserable. When I choose to look at what I do have in my life, I am overwhelmed with gratitude. 

5) Gratitude makes everything better. 

6) I can only do today, today. Tomorrow will arrive without my worrying about what it will look like. 

7) Even adversity has gifts to bestow. I’ve spent time on Zoom and phone calls with people on my life I seldom see or talk to. I’ve started gardening. I’m learning to play the guitar again. I’m playing games with my college-age sons. 

8) When I am overwhelmed by the state of the world, I can do one thing to make it better. Perhaps that one thing leads to another, but even if it doesn’t, I have improved the world a little bit. 

9) Helping people makes me feel better. 

10) There is nothing that says I have to do any of it perfectly.

Thanks to GGmadeit for the prompt that inspired this blog post. Go on over there and give her a little love!