Titles. We are all burdened with
them. We are the manager, college grad, or doctor. It is important, however, to
remember that titles are merely functions. They represent others’ expectations
for you, and are not who you are.
To truly know yourself, you and
others must look beyond expectations, to your physical and emotional health. It
says much about your identify. Like a bakery cake, you are a combination of
many ingredients: things that happen to and around you, current and past projects
and events, the balcony people who support you, and the basement people who do
not.
These ingredients, when blended, create
your “cake.” They establish the uniqueness that is the essential “you.”
However, one final touch is necessary
but often neglected, before being ready for “show and tell.” Both the bakery
cake and your cake need decoration to make them appealing and attractive to
others. What is that final touch that will draw others to that cake, and you? Icing,
of course!
Your daily actions and thoughts
(the icing), whether bright or dark, help determine not only your emotional and
mental health, but also influences others’ desire to draw closer to you.
If you get out of bed in the
morning in a gloomy mood, and drag a blanket of dark emotional icing with you,
it affects both your physical health, and others’ thoughts of you throughout
the day.
Just by rising each morning, gazing outdoors, and finding something for which to be thankful, that healthy thought creates a light layer of icing. By acknowledging the possibilities of a sunshiny day (even when it is rainy and cold,) you will feel warmer and more vital. In turn, others will feed off that warmth.
During the day, if you recognize a
draping of dark icing hanging over your head, what then? Simply step into the kitchen
of your mind, scrape the dark icing into the trash, think of something worthy
of thankfulness, and step out of the kitchen to share the brighter icing of
your renewed attitude.
The day is yours to choose.
What color is your icing?
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