Just Throw It In The Box...

On an average day I feel as if we come across tons of challenges, emotions, actions, and people that in someway can have a large or small impact on our lives. How or if we let them effect us depends on us. Are we allowing the wrong things to effect us, and somehow blocking the energy that we should be letting in?

Let's pretend that we have a little box that we carry with us everyday, and when we get home we empty it into a larger box that makes up who we are overall. As we go throughout the day, things are constantly being dropped into our little box. Now, the box can only hold so much since it is really small. That means that we only have room to let in a few things. So we must become mindful of what we let in, or we might not be able to place something in the box that we really need.

So how do you determine what to let in the box and what not to? A major problem that we have as a people is that we sweat the small things. We focus on things that if thrown into our box simply take up space. We get mad when the bus is late, we complain when the person we are dating doesn't call us back when they said they would, we hate when we make a simple mistake, we want to fight when someone takes our parking spot, and the world is over if we aren't invited out by a friend to an outing and another friend is.

These are the type of situations that we should simply ignore and block from being thrown into our very small box. Simply close the lid of the box when these situations occur, hurry past the situation, and move on towards something positive that can be thrown into your box. If you allow them into your box, not only will your box be full of junk, but it also might BREAK! That is what happens when you allow things to weigh HEAVY on your heart for no reason.

You want to always leave room for positive things to be thrown into your box. That promotion coming, that fun event, that amazing friend, that gift from your boyfriend, that thank you from a stranger, or that blog post that you read on www.imkeepingup.com that might change your life.

Now, sometimes you will not be able to prevent something that you don't want in your box from coming in. Things like death, the lost of a job, or becoming ill might sneak into your box and is out of your hands. But don't worry, there is space in your box allotted for life's lessons. If you look at these situations as not being negative, they will simply turn into much needed lessons to learn from.

At the end of your day you should have majority positive items in your box, and maybe one or two hard life lessons. When you go home to empty the small box into the larger box...you will be one step closer to building a more positive YOU.

Have you ever wondered why when you let one bad moment effect you in the start of your day, why it seems that nothing goes right the rest of the day? That is because you filled your little box with negative energy, and now there is no more room for something positive to fit.

What do you allow into your box?

-The Socialite