Day 89

Day 89: Real Time
Day 7: 21 Day Complaint Free Journey


I couldn’t place him, even after about two days of hard thinking.

A former student had approached me in a local business, having recognized me from a distance. His smile was wide and he seemed genuinely pleased to see me. After we talked, it became apparent that I had taught him in middle school at some point, although neither of us could remember exactly how long ago.

He proudly handed me his business card, a tree service operation, complete with his name painted on the side of a truck parked right outside the window nearby. As a good businessman does, he encouraged me to call him if I needed his services and asked that I pass the word along to my friends.

But I still couldn’t place him as a teenager in one of my classes in the past.

And then, about three days later, he clicked into focus. He was the one who knew all my buttons and took great joy in pushing them frequently. He wasn’t a mean-spirited kid. He was just into everything, with no interest in the content I was trying to pass along to him. I do recall that he smiled the whole time he was creating the fun he so enjoyed.

At the time, my hopes for him were not great. I imagine that I even complained a bit about him, and the many others like him.

Yet, here he was, an adult with a business that he was proud of, one that supported him.

Will Bowen says that instead of complaining we should be envisioning how we want our lives to be. And through the Law of Attraction, the universe is more likely to accommodate us in positive ways rather than negative.

What if we all spent today….just today….stating things in the positive rather than the reverse?

Day 7. I’ll try it today. How about you?