A comment my mom made on my last post got me to thinking. She complimented me on my adaptability skills. I am good at adapting...it's one of my strengths...I can handle changes and do what needs to be done and usually, happily. It's also one of my weaknesses...it's kept me in hard/bad/annoying situations that I could have changed for the better instead of just dealing with.
Here's an example: I did my hair in the dark this morning. Why?? Because all of the light bulbs were burned out in my bathroom. I was in such a hurry, I just kept doing my hair and make-up in the dark. It did occur to me that it would only take a few minutes to change the light bulbs, but instead, I just lived with darkness. I started looking around my house and noticed many lights burned out. In Teylor's room (who, bless her heart, is JUST like her mom) she has a head lamp duct taped to her light because her bulbs are burned out. How long has she been living in the dark?? Who knows??
That's just one (silly) example to the long list. SO...for the 39th year of my life I am going to work on being more of a problem solver than a problem adapter. This is going to take courage and bravery on my part. It means I'm going to have to speak up and have an actual OPINION about my life.
AND I'm changing all of the light bulbs today after work. ALL of them :)
This is my theme song for this goal... LOVE it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4
3 comments:
This really made me smile! I hate changing light bulbs - Krystal's closet light has been out for months. Lame-O! I am going to change it tomorrow!
What a great realization and goal! I really struggle with change - and never adapt very well to it. But, I know I'm always telling my kiddos to problem solve - and, I need to work on being a better problem solver too. :)
SO good to see you today!
Your right being too adaptable is not good - but I do see you as a problem solver too. You also need to ask for others help (dad is a good light bulb changer), that way more problems can be solved more quickly and easily.
Dad....I need some lightbulbs changed. We also leave lightbulbs out for months. haha
I have some of those same issues. Sometimes it's hard to see what you need to change when you've been doing the same thing for so long. And scary! I am always impressed by your ability to be awesome. Really.
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