Yellow brick road

*peridot*

Goodbye yellow brick road or follow the yellow brick road? They both amount to the same thing, don't they?

With 2012 looming fast, its time for change. I'm hoping i can inspire myself and get myself motivated on this long journey to where? That is the question, where? I've a few ideas, but don't know which direction to take first. It doesn't help when you are in debt. My first target is to have settled all my debts, except one, in the next six months. My second target is to completely turn my life around. My third target is to achieve, and this is the most important of all, inner contentment. Not wealth, affluence, or even happiness, but to me the most important achievement is simple contentment.

I've survived xmas relatively unscathed. A total of of £13.75 spent on two xmas presents, i have spent within my means, ( to be honest, i didn't , but never mind ). I walked around the sales today, just for a trip out. Its amazing how much, and what, people will spend their moiney on. Bought xmas cards for next year, ( if i can remember where i put them ) :rotfl: 20 cards for 49p. Bargain. Two more cards for £1 and £1.48 on a bottle of cava for new years eve, ( had a £2 voucher which paid for the remainder). It won a silver award last year, so i hope it lives up to my expectations :rotfl::rotfl: Mind you, it does say you can take it back, if it doesn't :rotfl:That the end of my spending for the rest of the year, as i don't intend to go out again, unless its life changing.

I am going to motivate myself with a thought for everyday, and my thought for today is :-

" It is a beautiful arrangement, also, derived from days of yore, that this festival, which commemorates the announcement of the religion of peace and love, has been made the season of gathering together of family connections, and drawing closer again those bands of kindred hearts, which the cares and pleasures and sorrows of the world are continually operating to cut loose: of calling back the children of a family, who have launched forth in life, and wandered widely asunder, once more to assemble about the paternal hearth, that rallying place of the affections, there to grow young and loving again among the endearing mementos of childhood."

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Hi Peridot,

Welcome to the boards x

*peridot*

Crikey, thankyou. I will look for this £2 savers thing?

Itsadogslife_2

I normally venture out into the sales and buy cards, wrapping paper etc, but after seeing how much was actually in the loft, I have desisted this year :-)

Looking forward to hearing your thought of the day :-)

*peridot*

One productive day although i don't feel as if it was productive enough. Never mind, i was in a throwing out mood, and if your in that mind, everything goes. Can't complain i suppose. Bins now full, no prisoners taken. On the down side it seems all the offices i wanted to call are still off work, so not much to be done there, anyway. Try again tomorrow.


My thought for today, and just for you itsadogslife :-

SICK AND TIRED

I'm sick and tired of the old paths that led me astray. I want a new road, a new route, a new way - a new star to follow, a new world to find - a new dream to dream, a new heart, a new mind.

I'm tired of my failings, my faults i would mend. Here at the point where the year nears its end - i ask for forgiveness - to work out my life in a new kind of way - To do more, to give more, to love more, not less - and put into practice the words i profess.

*peridot*

A whole day job seeking with no success. Tomorrow is another day.


Thought for today to keep myself motivated :-

NOW IS THE TIME

The year now dying once was young and much it promised you. Hopefully you greeted it when it was fresh and new. So do not let it pass away without a thankful thought - of the happy times and all the blessings that it brought . . . Forget the disappointments and the hopes that that missed the mark - and before the poor old year goes out into the dark - Light a penitential candle. Let a tear be shed - for the good deed left undone, the kind word left unsaid.

Now is the moment to confess, the time to look within - at the uncorrected fault - the unforgiven sin.

ScarlettOHara_2

Hi Peridot, at my company they have pretty much held off recruitment until the second week in January so you may find it picks up a bit then. Good luck with your job hunt - what sort of role are you looking for?

Good luck with your diary/journey!

Itsadogslife_2

Hi P, love today's thought, very deep and true.

As Scarlett has said, I don't think there will be much this week in recruiting. I think January you will probably find it more productive, BUT someone might find your dedication to looking in a week when no one is working properly that thing that sets you apart and makes you stand out from the rest.

*peridot*

Hi Scarlett and itsadogslife

Another day, dedication it is, and also a process of elimination, ( weeding out jobs that no longer exist, or jobs which bear no relation to the job description ).

I'm open minded and flexible about my job role. Now approaching the crossroads. See where the road takes me?

The thought for today :-

IF WE KNEW

If we really knew just how much time was left for us - how many years or months or weeks we'd cease to fret and fuss about the unimportant things that fill out lives today - using every precious hour before it slipped away.

If we knew exactly what the span was going to be - we should value Time and live each minute gratefully - wasting nothing of its treasure, sifting false from true - making up for all the time we've squandered . . . if we knew

*peridot*

A bit of light relief, i just came across this :-

Another year, another chance
To start our lives anew;
This time we’ll leap old barriers
To have a real breakthrough.

We’ll take one little step
And then we’ll take one more,
Our unlimited potential
We’ll totally explore.

We’ll show off all our talents
Everyone will be inspired;
(Whew! While I’m writing this,
I’m getting very tired.)

We’ll give up all bad habits;
We’ll read and learn a lot,
All our goals will be accomplished,
Sigh...or maybe not.

Back to it

*peridot*

All my less than productive efforts over the xmas period have left me feeling bleughh today. I've been wrapped in a comfortable cocoon, this last week. January is fast approaching, and today i need to try and sell some of the items i found the other day. I need some fresh air today. At least its free.



Thought for today :-

THE PASSING OF THE YEAR


What did you do for me? said I as I watched the dying year. I would settle accounts with you before you go from here. You failed to bring me all the things you prominsed at the start : the fulfilment of my hopes, the wishes of my heart.

The Old Year opened his fading eyes and said reproachfully, I gave you all i had to give, but what did you do for me? I gave you opportunities and chances that you spurned - many mercies undeserved and happiness unearned.

Had you only known, he said, I was a friend to you. And as the Old Year breathed his last I knew his words were true . . . I had been ungrateful, but it's too late now, I said. Forgive me, and make me wiser in the year ahead.