Train Time: No. 4

Today, it’s the 5:05 bound for Homewood.

I was working on a users PC the other day and noticed a little scribble on a piece of paper stuck to the wall of his cubical. It read:

“Feelings are just that… feelings, and do not necessarily reflect reality.”

Naturally, on a good day, when your feeling fine, I’m sure we all hope that this feeling does reflect reality.

However, it’s on those rough days that we hope the otherwise; that our feelings of dread are wrong. In fact, reviewing what’s been said the rest of the week, I would suggest that we owe it to ourselves to keep our chin up on those “bad” days and just “keep on swimming, keep on swimming…” Etc.

Remember that by “doing”, we already stand a 100% better chance of success than if we do nothing; and in my book, those are pretty good odds.

One of the theories I live by is the concept that the reason there are bad days as well as good days, and good feelings as well as bad ones is because without the bad, you can never really appreciate the good. If everything is great… and all you have ever known if great… then how do you really know it’s great.

So let’s just “keep on swimming, keep on swimming,” etc. And when the feelings are bad, or the prospects seem bleak and the worries are great, lets just make sure that what we do and what we believe are all good and positive and productive.

Then maybe, just maybe, the feelings and our reality will follow.