Dude. Grab your board and let's hit the waves.

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. Jonatan Martensson

Feelings are a natural and normal part of our lives. We experience them every day. We have a choice about how to let them impact us every day. Feelings play a big part in how we behave, how we speak, and what our attitude is. Here's the thing about feelings. Like Martensson aptly points out in today's quote, we have a choice. When we see the wave of hurt feelings coming at us we can choose to either jump on it and ride it out or we can let it pass. When we see a wave of anger headed straight toward us we can either ride that all the way to shore or we can hang back and let it pass. When we see a wave of happiness swell up we also have the choice to either take the wave or let it pass. There's the waves of gratitude that come at us as well, usually at times when we aren't feeling so grateful. Sometimes we've got two different kinds of waves staring us down. And we have a choice about which one to choose. As you can see we have a lot of decisions to make about those "feeling waves" in a very short amount of time. Choose carefully or you just may experience a gnarly wipe out. (I had to do it - I had to work a surfing term in! Ha!)

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

Search This Blog