August 26, 2015, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…and Shoes Rising

“The bad times I can handle. It’s the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?” –Erma Bombeck

As ironic as it seems, a higher level problem from that which many of us experience is life going well.

Things going not so well, progress not happening, dreams going unfulfilled…all of that is an easy shtick. We’ve played those tunes many times.

Things rocking, however — now THAT can be discombobulating.

It’s the state we all strive for and yet, when life starts to really click, it takes a recalibration of our insides to acknowledge, accept and allow those clicks to take place over the long term.

Sometimes our workplace, culture, and even internal wiring is shaped by a belief that, if things start to go really well, the other shoe is about to drop.

I remember a Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown said “I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”

What if we could rewire ourselves to look for and expect everything to get better and better? Might we begin to see shoes rising?

Got joyous expectation?

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” –Guillaume Apollinaire