Years ago, I went through a country music phase, y’all. I knew every artist from Garth Brooks to Patsy Cline to Alan Jackson to Reba McIntyre and then some. One of the one-hit-wonders in the early 90s was a handsome cowboy named John Michael Montgomery. His big song? Check it out:
“Life’s a dance, you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow. Don’t worry ’bout what you don’t know. Life’s a dance, you learn as you go.”
And ain’t it true? We dance. Some days it’s one step forward; some days it’s two steps back. Often, we’re having such a good day, we could be the grand champion on “Dancing with the Stars”. Other days, we couldn’t two-step our way out of a paper bag.
Wouldn’t we all like to have more good days on the dance floor? Here’s the good news. We could, if only we’d focus on what went WELL today instead of on what went wrong. It’s that simple.
I do it on a whiteboard in my kitchen. At the top of the board in pink magic marker are the words “What went WELL today?” Before the sun goes down, I grab a marker and list all the things that happened that were truly good… evidence from my daily life that the universe is guiding me and opening doors in the right places.
We all have 24 hours in a day. If we focus on what was good about our “24”, we’ll simply draw more of what’s good to us in the next. Kind of like a magnet, eh?
Now there’s a country song if I ever heard one. 😀
