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Good morning everyone! I don’t really have much to say today because I am one sick puppy, hence trying to get out as many words as I can before I sneeze all over my pretty little Mac. What can I say? Memorial Day weekend got the best of me. Between hiking up Welch and Dickey Mountain in New Hampshire, shoving my face with clam chowder at the Chowder Fest and sipping on Woodchuck Spring & Summer ciders, I had my fair share of fun and now unfortunately it has ended in a yucky cold.

However, despite all the congestion, I do have one thing on my mind this morning that I’d like to dedicate this post to: PATIENCE. Wikipedia claims patience to be “the level of endurance one’s character can take before negativity.” The key word right there is negativity. It’s something we all would like to avoid; no one likes to be negative after all. However, sometimes our mind takes over and that little thing called negativity gets the best of us, and all that patience fizzles away.

All of us try so hard to be patient in life. We try to be patient in our relationships. We patiently hope the job opportunity finally pulls through. We try so darn hard to be patient with our children…even when they are screaming at the top of their lungs or spilt sauce on the carpet for the third time in one day. We attempt to be patient while waiting in long lines in the grocery store, even though we have a million things to do. We patiently wait for that stroke of luck to come knocking on our doorstep. And every day I often tell myself, “Be patient Rach. Things will all work out.” We do this because patience is a good feeling. It gives us hope.

But as patient as we will our little hearts to be, sometimes we fall of track; we are only human after all and that’s OK. However when this happens, how do we hop right back on that track and avoid the domino-effect negativity can bring on? That’s something I don’t know the perfect answer to, but I do know I’m trying hard to work on it.

I think the number one thing you can do is to be easier on yourself. Love yourself. Believe in yourself. BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF. It’s all about attitude, and carrying yourself with a positive attitude even if you’re a little unsure at the moment. It’s about not taking life too seriously because it’s our life to live, and it should be lived to the fullest, in our own crazy little way.

And when things get foggy, we need to remember that one day everything will work itself out because, well, it always does. It sounds cliche, but I’m a firm believer that everything does happen for a reason, and eventually works itself out. So in the meantime, I suppose we just need to stay positive enough to trust in that.

What helps you remain patient through tough times? How do you ween off that negativity?

XoXo,