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Forgive and Reflect

Why would anyone want to forget important lessons we learn in life?  I really like this quote as I have learned so many lessons over the course of my life and am grateful that I have been able to learn them.  Yes some of them have been difficult, and more challenging than others, but the fact that I have been able to learn from them is immensely important. If I didn't learn from them I would keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again which isn't good.  It's important to learn from our past, and I love the "Forgive and Reflect" such a powerful statement.
By forgiving ourselves of our past we are able to move on instead of holding on and letting our past keep us down.  I know for me my past is powerful and I have learnt a lot especially over the past 6 months since my incident.  I have learned that I am in control of my moods (when I take my medications) and that I may be bipolar but it's no different than my hubby's diabetes it's a disease that needs daily medication and therapy.  It is a disease, but it's not 'who I am'.  I don't let it label me, I don't let it keep me down.  I can control my future by controlling my disease, I can chose to get out of bed each day, I can choose to have a positive attitude or I can choose to have a negative one.  It seems like a lot of my posts are the same.  I think because it is so important to learn from my mistakes, and to better myself by taking my pills and continuing with my therapy.  I am by no means perfect, but I am taking steps on a daily basis to make myself better.  Doing things to help control and minimize my anxiety and my bipolar disease.  Reflecting on my past I can see the mistakes I made (not taking pills is a huge one) and I can learn from them and not repeat the same mistakes from my past.  It is tough but it is something I can do, something I can chose to do and something I have chosen to do.  It is a habit for me now to automatically take my pills, it is part of my bedtime routine, I don't even have to think about it I just take my pills before climbing into bed.  I have many other things I would like to become habits as well.  I don't always take the best care of myself, such as brushing teeth, washing face etc, lotioning up my disgusting feet etc, and would LOVE for those items to become habits as well, I guess the only way to do that is to make it a daily task, and just do it instead of waiting until I am so tired that I literally sleepwalk to bed.  If my hubby and I would set a normal bedtime for ourselves that would help.  Most of the time on work nights we are in bed by about 9-10pm depending on the day and what we are doing.

Today at work I had 2 naughty dogs, one was a schnauzer and he had the typical 'terrier' (fiesty) attitude, didn't want me touching his front legs, and was just a wiggly worm.  The other one was a bichon mix who had matted hair and again didn't like me touching his legs, but needless to say I was able to get them both finished and done and even in a timely manner.  Naughty dogs are the bane of my existence the last few days, have had lots of them.

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