Releasing Expectations
The first thing I did when I went on my 90 Day No Negativity Challenge was to stop complaining. When I complain or am around people who complain I feel snarky and dissatisfied with everyone and everything. I am not diggin’ myself and loving my life which is a complete and total bummer because I like diggin’ myself and loving my life. Complaining puts a damper on happiness. That includes complaining about what someone didn't do that I think they should have because I had an expectation about how they should behave. I got blindsided by that this week in a relatively minor way. Andy plays the banjo at a jam I go to. He has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t like it when there is a lot of singing. He likes to play fiddle songs, you know songs without words and I like to sing, that would be songs that do have words. The last few weeks Andy has been kind of nice to me and by nice I mean not rude. So, when I ran into him at a ...