I was Googling myself this morning and came across something I’d written several years ago, that someone had shared on their site.\u00a0 It was a good one, so I wanted to share it here: \u00a0“I had a great lesson in the power of my beliefs this morning.\u00a0 As usual on final layout week, I spend extra hours at the computer, creating and revising ads, opening mail, logging in payments, seeing who\u2019s paid and who needs to pay, playing phone tag with a dozen new advertisers getting last minute details, making last minute adjustments to design and layout.\u00a0 So I work well into the night and get up early to begin again.\u00a0 And this morning was no different.”<\/p>\n
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I woke up groggy, wishing I could have just a little more sleep, but excited about doing the final touches on the magazine.\u00a0 I note the time on the wall clock – 6:20 am – and\u00a0 sleepily make it into the office.\u00a0 I go over my To Do List and begin making my way down the list.\u00a0 I check email and get a final ad. I respond to a few emails.<\/p>\n
I place the ad and am about to begin my Table of Contents when I notice my eyeglass case next to the keyboard in front of me.\u00a0 My eyeglass case.\u00a0 Empty, of course.\u00a0 Not because I have them on, but because they\u2019re in the living room next to the recliner where I slept last night.\u00a0 Hmmm, how can that be?<\/p>\n
I usually wear contact lenses; I use the disposable kind that I wear for a month at a time.\u00a0 Only a few times a year do I take my lenses out and wear my glasses for a few days.\u00a0 I\u2019m near-sighted and my vision is a minus 4, meaning without lenses, I can read a page held 10-12 inches away, and everything farther away than that is a nice, hazy blur.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d been working so hard that I\u2019d forgotten I\u2019d taken out my contact lenses and put my glasses on.\u00a0 Obviously I took my glasses off before falling asleep.\u00a0 Upon awakening, I\u2019d forgotten about them and assumed my lenses were in, as usual.\u00a0 I saw the clock six feet away at 6:20 am.\u00a0 I did paperwork and computer work, sleepily assuming I had my lenses in.<\/p>\n
The moment I saw my eyeglass case, and realized I didn\u2019t have my glasses on \u2013 and contact lenses were out \u2013 I could no longer see the words I\u2019d typed on the monitor and the clock was a blur.\u00a0 And no, I didn\u2019t sleep with my face scrunched into the pillow, squishing my eyes into a shape that let me temporarily focus.\u00a0 I slept face up, leaning back in a recliner.<\/p>\n
The only thing I did different was to believe and expect that I \u2013 as usual \u2013 had my contact lenses in and could see fine, and behave as if that were so.\u00a0 Wow, huh?<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if we all went to sleep tonight and woke up forgetting that we\u2019d ever been unhappy, forgetting that we\u2019d ever had money worries or bad health?<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t it be neat to wake up and all we could remember was that we loved and were loved, that we were vitally healthy and strong, that we had everything we wanted?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a nice thought isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 It\u2019s something nice to daydream about when I find myself worrying.<\/p>\n