Reframe the Past

 I had a bad morning today.  So bad that I was determined to reframe my memory of it.  I did not have the specifics but I ended the series of dark episodes with that determination.

Later, I ended up at Starbucks reading on my kindle and exploiting the inbuilt features of Kindle by taking copious notes on what I was reading.  I went through few sections in a couple of books.  I was working hard to make better use of my time.

Interestingly, I ended up rereading about Eric Chester from Rory Vaden’s book Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success.

In that book, Vaden captures one of Chester’s powerful demonstration.  In the demo, Chester had two assistants stretch an eighty foot length of measuring tape across the hall.  Chester invited the audience to think of the 80 foot as representing 80 years of an individual life.  Each foot, of course, represented a year and each inch (12 inch to a foot) a month of one’s life.  A day would be one thirtieth of an inch.

It was a good visual to reframe my bad morning.  I am not guaranteed weighty years but the imagery forced me to let go of that bad morning and the dark thoughts that attended to it.  The imagery led me to let that piece of my past recede into oblivion quickly.

It made the rest of today bubble with promise...

I like that.