Category: Habits

KICKING THE TIRES OF JANUARY 2, 2020

S R Janssen

New Millennium: Second Decade: Day Two

It’s 2020 and Good Mornings Still Start this Way

Heading into 2020

There is something I love about seeing “2020” and writing “2020.” My feelings about this year are: optimistic, enthusiastic, eager and excited. I look forward to living imaginatively and creatively.

The gap between my last post (way back in November) was filled by NaNoWrIMo which is the National Novel Writing Month. It was my third go-around with this venture. Third time is the charm: I succeeded in producing 50,000 words of a novel. I am pleased with myself and potentially pleased with the novel in spite of it requiring another 50,000 words to finish, massive revising and massive editing. In its current incarnation, it must remain hidden from view to all except myself. I have become a Frankenstein: the body parts are on the table, but requiring stitching and animating.

But For Another Day . . .

I was about to chat briefly about my adventures with imagination but I am saving this for tomorrow’s post.

Promise Post-Scriptus

I am promising myself to “Kick My Days” for a minimum of five days a week and a minimum of two sentences.

Kicking the Tires of Halloween 2019

S R Janssen

The Case for Better Feeling Thoughts

Some days ago, a conversation with a close relative set slammed the door on my figurative tail. Indeed my back was up just like an angry cat. My mind muttered on about that event for most of the day. I was angry.

Feeling angry feels bad physically. As I always prefer feeling good, I simply stopped thinking about the incident. I started thinking about pony trekking in Iceland; imagining the horse I was riding and the scenery I was riding through. That felt so good, my spirit lifted to the point of motivating me to work a rock garden. I completely forgot about the annoying conversation.

The next day, that event drifted back into my attention. In the interim, my viewpoint had shifted. It seemed to me that my relative actually had a valid point and that I was pig-headedly holding on to an issue that hadn’t been relevant since 2015.

There is no law that requires me to continue thinking thoughts about annoying events in the past. It’s a free country; I am allowed to think about anything I like-particularly if they are thoughts that feel good even when they are figments of my imagination.