TGIF

It's Friday!  You know what that means.  TGIF

How Am I Trusting?

I'm trusting that I can get things done at work.  There's a lot to do - get the chicken coop ready for winter, find a new slaughter house (because our current one is failing - epically), a sow is about to have piglets any day, finding heat on our sows, finding heats on our cows (no more rhyming, promise).  Tagging our yearling sheep with their scrapie ID, spreading manure (and learning about soil quality), setting up the winter pig housing.  The list goes on.  One step at a time, understanding what tasks won't take long, which tasks will.  And delegating!  I made good head way this week (with nothing really on the above list, but still...)  Next week will start another week to get things done. 


How Am I Grateful?

This week I'm grateful for my job.  I have wonderful job where I can learn, challenge myself, try new ideas, be a leader, and most importantly, be respected.  The latter, respect, has taken a little time to gain and will take more time, but I've enjoyed it.   I've gone to work happy, and more importantly come home from work happy.  That hasn't happen to me in a very long time.   

How Am I Inspired?

This may sound a little conceded, but I've been inspired by myself this week.  I've been thinking a lot about my past recently (see Whirl Wind).  I was talking to a friend about feeling funny, just thinking about my emotional state not to long ago.  When I said I wished that I handled everything a little more elegantly.  My friend said, 
 "You definitely win the "done-the-most-to-get-her-shit-together-and-become-successful" award. At least in my book."  
To many it may seem exaggerated.  But those words mean a lot, and it made me sit back and see where I was and where I am.  Yes, looking back I could have handled everything more elegantly, but I did the best I could in the only ways I knew how.  I'm not saying I've changed completely in 3 months, but I know I have changed.  I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for that time.  I've done a lot of work on myself, and I'm proud of that.  

How Am I Practicing Faith? 

I love to knit.  Right now I'm knitting a hat.  It's the most complicated pattern I've done.  It's been coming along great!  Until last night, when I messed up my stitch count, and the pattern just wasn't coming along like it should.  Actually, it was NOT coming along.  At all.  I got grumpy and starting thinking how I couldn't knit.  I took a break, and then found out what I did wrong.  The beauty about knitting, you can start all over again.  I pulled it all out and am starting over.  I know you can't do that with everything in life, but it's that time when you just take that moment to breath you realize (and have faith) that things aren't always as bad as they seem.

Happy Friday!!