the unperfected perfectionist

Do you ever have those days in which you just feel you need a bit more inspiration than on other days?  I had one of those days today!  I prefer to be the one to offer up some inspiration to others but, there are many occasions that I must go searching for some of my own.   Its really ironic because as I was thinking I needed a dose of inspiration, Emma had turned on the T.V. and would you believe inspiration was staring me dead in the eye.  The Ironman World Championship was showing.  I don't watch much T.V. but, this really captured me today.  I watched the well trained endurance athletes compete in this event and amongst them were also people that had never competed before.  They told stories of several competitors.  A woman that used to be very overweight, a woman that was diagnosed with cancer and endured treatments at the same time she was training.  There was a man with no legs and a man in his eighties.  While watching this, my mind was being filled with inspiration

Hurry up and wait....Move forward without looking back and wait...Accomplish big things and small and wait... A holding pattern.   I have been having a great and busy summer so far but, today I had one of those days that I hadn't had in quite a long time.  I was feeling irritated with one thing after another and it was bothering me enough that I needed to sit back and think about why I was so edgy and why all on the same day.  It was at this moment that I had to remind myself that most  but, not all things, bothering me were either things that I just needed to deal with or things that I shouldn't have let get to me in the nature that I allowed them to.  I also thought about how very happy I've been and all the positives in my life currently.  So, yes, I may feel like I am in a holding pattern in some pretty big areas of my life but, as the old saying goes...."Good things come to those who wait."   I finally completed my class this week and took my b