Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion.
Being alive is the special occasion.

I had a friend who used her “good” dishes often and would bring them out when friends dropped by.

She was criticized by many people for not saving the dishes for the holidays and other special occasions. She was accused of being frivolous and not valuing quality items.

She’d patiently explain to them that she knew the value of the dishes, knew they were expensive but that she valued her friends and the time she spent with them just as much as her material possessions, so she considered each time she spent with friends to be a special occasion.

This blew people’s minds!

No one had ever told them that they valued their friendship so much to make the occasion seem special!

They learned that she valued her time with them so much that she didn’t want to wait for a once or twice a year opportunity.

She wanted to show her feeling to people by making everyday events into special occasions!

I learned a lot from my friend!

When I was starting over in life a couple of years ago, buying goods and furnishings for a new apartment, I made sure to choose things I love so I’d be surrounded by beauty! A lot of what I bought was from thrift stores I frequented over the months, buying something only when I fell in love with it, not just because I needed it. I was very glad I had not rushed my purchases once we became housebound with COVID, because I love my surroundings!

So my advice to you?

Choose what you love, don’t try to please the invisible “Good Housekeeping” or “HGTV” judges!

Wear the colors you love, use the good dishes, do things now that you’ve promised you’d do at a future time!

None of us knows how much time we actually have in life to live, nor do we know what’s around the next corner.

So live, and enjoy living!

Be yourself through it, if you don’t you’ll regret that, and you deserve to live a life you don’t regret!

Blessings to you if you are thinking of starting something new in your life!

May you receive the help you need, to help you in wondrous ways!

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• Making a change… “How do I take that first step?”
• Affirmation: Today is a new day! I can do this!
• As we practice being gentle and kind with ourselves, we actually help to speed the process of helping our lives become more positive!
• Always believe that wonderful things can happen!
• A healthy outside starts from the inside!
• Brain Rewiring

More good stuff:

Teaching ourselves to like, even to love ourselves

By changing our inner dialogue, we change EVERYTHING!

Challenge: When a negative thought enters your mind, think three positive ones. Train yourself to flip the script!

Red Ocean or Blue Ocean? How do you think?

An answer to dealing with the Inner Critic!

My top 10 most viewed posts, plus a few bonuses!

A helpful trick to be able to overcome negatively Comparing Ourselves to others…

Do you only accept yourself if you look a certain way?

A new you! Is this possible?

Please go to my Archived Posts page to find more wonderful posts to check out!

Blessings!
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Tamara
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