Day 6 & 7 of "30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself"

Because every breath I take proves that I can live without you!

I was a little under the weather yesterday so I didn't  make an entry. Tonight I am doing day 6 and 7 together and reading them both they kind of go hand and hand.#6 Stop trying to hold onto the past. – You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.#7  Stop being scared to make a mistake. – Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing.  Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success.  You end up regretting the things you did NOT do far more than the things you did. Both of these go along with one of my favorite quotes by Helen Keller ~ “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”  I've been holding on to the past and not letting go... Staring endlessly at the closed door. There may have been a door or two that were opened but I was so focused on the closed door that I never realized the other ones were there or open. So Ive turned around and now I will start looking for the open doors... stop living in the past. Or as the author put it re-reading the last chapter. It's time to turn the page and start a new chapter of life. Is it I am afraid to make mistakes or is it I am afraid of the rejection!? Aren't they really one in the same. This kind of reminds me of something I always preach to my children,  "You can't always win. If you loose the game. It's not because you are not good enough. It just means you need to learn from the mistakes you made and next time go out there and kick butt." Ha! I guess I should start listening to myself!!! I'm not in a hurry to start the new chapter with another person. Right now I am perfectly content with the NEW chapter being all about me, my kids, my grandkids, my family and my friends. I may stumble a few times... even fall down. But I am a quick learner and am pretty good about learning from my mistakes. This time I won't make my life all about them... This chapter will be all about WE not just he, we as in teamwork! See I have already learned from one mistake :) Enuf said... Nitey-Nite!