The Intruder!!

Staying positvie in a negative world is VERY hard.

Recently, I had a mouse in my house. It was so little that I wasn't really even sure what it was. It came in my kitchen and the darn thing almost caused me to have a heart attack one evening. I screamed so loudly, so shrill that I probably caused the poor little thing to become deaf. But he scared me! From out of nowhere, there he was! On my turf! In MY house! I knew at that moment I had to do something to rid my home of him.

Although I was in the middle of a very busy day at work, I dropped everything and headed to the local dollar store. I bought four mouse traps (I was gonna be sure to get him, lol) two of which my son loaded with cheese and a couple with peanut butter.

He set them in place and we waited. A few hours later, I heard a loud SNAP!! and I knew the mouse was history. Walking into the kitchen I found my elation at catching the intruder, quickly turned to disappointment. The dirty little thing had took what he came for (the cheese) and escaped before he could be caught.

So, we reset it and waited. The next few days that followed were filled with us settnig up the traps, hearing them snap and finding them empty. After a week of this, along with seeing my bread bag broken into and a small pie half eaten, I knew I was dealing with something that required more work on my part. I was going to have to haul out the big guns. LOL In talking with a friend, I gained information on just what to get to rid my home of the unwatned pest. She told me about a certain poison that would eliminate the rodent quickly. I got up, made another trip to the store, got the poison and put it out. Within minutes I could hear the mouse, (that in my mind had now grown as big as a bobcat from feeding on my bread and pies, lol). He came into my house again, but this time instead of getting what he came for, he got what I put out. That was over a week ago, and I haven't seen him or heard him since. It worked!!

Now, I'm not saying that another won't come back. More than likely it will, because there's a place somewhere the first one got in. My house is getting ready to be completely gutted when I leave for good and remodeled from the ground up, so there's no sense in trying to find the hole now. But I've decided that each time a trespasser comes to see what he can steal, I'll have the poison set out for him.

That brings me to this point:

Today, I have found a few negative thoughts creeping into my mind and I hate it. They are unwelcomed intruders. They don't belong there. They will destroy all of the good and positivity that I have. So it's up to me to recognize them, just like the mouse, and do all I can to rid myself of them. I was going about my day, running errands, taking care of business, emails, phone calls, attorney appt., finding a lost contract, tons of things that will wreck your good mood and positive vibes that you are feeling. But things that had to be dealt with, nonetheless. I finally got home and sat down to begin working again and my right shoulder (which has been giving me problems with a pinched nerve) started to hurt so badly that I looked for a Tylenol. My head felt like it was trying to hurt, my mind was a mess, my thoughts were all over the place, I felt nervous and out of sorts. NOT how I like to feel at all. I like to feel in control at all times. I like to be on top of the wave as I call it. I like to know that everything is in it's place and runnig smoothly. It's just something I have to have in my life. I don't like surprises, but in this business I have found that each day holds a little something unexpected and I've had to learn to roll with it. That doesn't mean I like it, nor does it mean that I find it easy each time, but I have to do it.

Now when those things come, they have the ability to suck the positivity right out of me. They have the ability to put me in a nervous state and cause my mind to be filled with things that don't belong there. Thoughts of aggravation, maybe even a curse word wants to come out, thoughts of being irritated with someone else who might have hurt you in the past. Trust me, all it takes is for one negative thought to come in and soon your whole mind is full of them.

So I recognized them and sat very still, put on some soft music and meditated on God's goodness in my life. I thanked HIm for all that I have and all I've come through. I could feel my body calm, I could feel the tension leave and soon I was back in my positive state of mind.

I tell you this to say, positivity does not just happen. It is a conscious decision to literally empty your mind of all the negative and bring good things in.

It's like when I recogized the mouse as an unwelcomed intruder, I could have let him stay, but mercy!! my house would have been over run with him and his friends and soon, there would be nothing left but a terrile mess. Just like if you let the negative thoughts persist, soon you'd have nothing but a mess in your head. I had to get up and make a move to get rid of the mouse. And when the first tatic didn't work, I tried something else. Sometimes, you might make the decision that you are going to be positive and then it doesn't work. But don't give up, get back at it and don't stop until you find the thing that will destroy the negativity.

Is my mouse problem over? By no means. I still have the open place where he found his way in. But I can't take care of that until next month. So in the meantime, I'll continue to work on the trespassers one by one.

Just like your thoughts. Will negative ones come back? YES!!! A resounding yes!! This life will bring them to you each day. But it's up to you to fight them when they return. DO NOT let them come in and take up homestead in your mind. Put out the poison (postitive thoughts) that will cause them to go away. Make the choice each day to find something for which to be grateful. You'll be much happier if you do.

Remember to work hard and Dream Big!!

Much love,

Christy