Bouncing around

How many people, faced with a pile of tasks, become overwhelmed and almost paralysed, unable even to work out where to start?

Is it because they can see no joy in doing the work, get no encouragement and no praise when a task is completed?

It isn’t hard to encourage someone. It is really quite easy to congratulate them. So why don’t we do it more often?

It is a shame that we don’t all have an internal cheerleader to encourage and congratulate us; more often than not, it is killed in infancy by adults who don’t want us getting ‘too big for our boots’.

How often have you seen an excited kiddie, thrilled with something they have achieved, sent away disappointed (or even ashamed) by an adult who complains about them ‘blowing their own trumpet’? How much would it actually have hurt the adult to say in an excited and enthusiastic tone, “Did you really? All by yourself? Well done!” Would that child have gone on to have a monumental ego? I think not.

However, by depriving people of praise when they have worked hard they are more likely to go on to have mental health problems.

It feels good to be praised. Funnily enough, it also feels good to praise.

I’d like to increase the sum total of human happiness and praise someone for a job well done, or effort expended, as often as the opportunity arises.

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It is said to be one of the most stressful things anyone can do.

I hate it with a passion.

The last time my parents moved house, I remember vividly. I was five.

Forty-six years ago.

I left that house over sixteen years later because I got married. Since then, the longest I have stayed in one house has been twelve years. In total, I have moved house twelve times in less than thirty years.

And changed country twice.

When we moved into mobile homes on our site in Ireland I really thought that the next move would be our last and our easiest – just a few yards across to our house, once it was built. How was I to know we would get there via Australia?

Hmmph!

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Happy Thursday!

Why do I seem to count my life in Thursdays?

It is such a non-day.

Nothing to watch on telly. No meetings are ever scheduled for Thursday. I have no Thursday hobbies.

But I find myself suddenly thinking, every week, “How come it’s Thursday again already?”

as if it has crept up on me…

My second son, when he was a toddler, posed me this question:

“Mummy, why is it still Thursday?”

Anyone who can answer this will gain my undying gratitude.

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So, despite misgivings (plus the slight disadvantage of having absolutely nothing whatsoever to say) I appear to have acquired a blog.

I really hope that I don’t break the internet.

I don’t think grannies are supposed to play with it.

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