The Memorygirl Matrix

Craftyscholar

Love the quotes, fantasia

I've been trying to work out which ones feel most 'me'

I think

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. -- The Buddha
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I can choose to be happy or unhappy each and every day. My happiness depends on me, on my attitude about everything and not on forces outside of me.

groatie_queen

Yeah, Clootie's Mum and fantasia, and MG - let's get a date in the diary... before the December / Christmas madness comes upon us!

clairewop

fantasia322 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: re earlier in the week batch cooking. OH has sudenly decided he doesnt like sweet potato> argh (sweet pot and haddock fishcakes).
S*d it. tough, you either eat them or you starve............:rotfl:

Claire, you ok? You've been otherwise enaged all day. Just making sure hon.........!!:)

p.s, have scruffy sitting at my feet too, he's scrambbled hyper and agitated and salivating to the Max with the bangs and pops...... aw poor baby

I'm fine went out for the afternoon with dh, this morning I sorted some stuff in the boxes in the dining room

tellmeitsfriday

Ohhhh thought you had hospital. Glad you had a nice day x

clairewop

no hospital is monday and friday next week

tellmeitsfriday

Oh what a muppet I am!

Souk08

Hey y'all just caught up again!

Ace news re MG and the French man. MG I've called and emailed you lovey but no response. Are we still on for Sunday? Know you've had a mad week and thought you might want to leave it a bit? But up to you, be ace to see you.

Off to have a wee tidy up and then a lovely bath and be back later.

What's a TADA by the way. Not a flylady myself as I LOVE cleaning anyway but I guess it's something to do with that?!

XXX

Cheery_Daff

thanks for those quotes!

I was at a rather cheery event for work the other day, and the afternoon was given to a couple of discussion sessions, run on an 'open space' basis. If you wanted to discuss a question, you wrote it and stuck it on the board, and then everyone chose which group to join in. The idea was that you could move groups if you wanted to, but that each group created a list of recommendations, which were put on the wall at the end, and we all showed which we thought were the most important.

The thing that struck me most was that the facilitator (who was brilliant) said 'if you've written down a topic for discussion, you might find yourself sitting by yourself, with nobody else choosing to join your group. You have a choice about how to think about this. You could feel sorry for yourself, like when you were at school and nobody wanted to be on your hockey team, then quietly put your paper in the bin and join another group. Or you could realise that you're ahead of your time, and be thankful for having an hour to think about something you think is important and make a list of recommendations. You never know, somebody else might even come and join you later'

and I must also say, that thanks to the Matrix and all your cheery encouragement and positivity and confidence building, I *did* write a question, even though I was rather scared, and pretty much everyone in the room was senior to me, and I felt like a small child imposter (I often feel like that! :rotfl:). And then - guess what? Nobody joined my group And I sat there thinking 'I'm ahead of my time, I'm ahead of my time' :rotfl: until eventually two very senior women came and joined me, we had an interesting discussion, and made some great recommendations that people even voted for! :j :j :j

And then yesterday I got offered full time work for the next two years :eek: :j :eek: :j Not as a direct result of my recommendations, of course But certainly my increased confidence, conviction in my ability to do the job, and all round cheeriness helped I think! :j :j :j

(just got to get this darn PhD finished now! :rotfl: Mind mapping my way through the 50 day challenge as we speak...)

fantasia322

groatie_queen wrote: »

Yeah, Clootie's Mum and fantasia, and MG - let's get a date in the diary... before the December / Christmas madness comes upon us!

I can do that.............no probs...........!!!!

Souk08

ACE news cheery one!