Happiness is wanting what you get

I had huge plans for Saturday. Coury and I walked to the gym in the morning and to my delight a new Pilates teacher invited me to her class. It left me feeling pretty energized and motivated. The rest of the day, Coury was scheduled to work and I planned to hunker down and work. On the schedule was; rebuilding the art deco border with a baby carriage for baby announcements, fix a few quarky things I'd noticed on my hycCreative website, order gift card boxes, Khaki paper for card sets, and finish the blog posts I'd been storing only in my head. None of these things actually happened. I did spend hours on my website making changes, but never really touched the projects I'd hoped.

Awaiting me on my computer were a few things that made me blue and upset so I phoned my parents for advice. In their cute fashion they both answered the phone and listened for a while... which was all I really needed. My dad gave me a quote to ponder "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dale Carnegie After only pondering this for a little while, my sister called with my nephew. He was feeling pretty chatty. (gibberish mostly, but we enjoy it) He blew me lots of kisses which cheered me immensely. When Coury got home he brought ice cream and wine and we had a lovely evening.

Now that a few days have passed, I can separate myself from the situation and really ponder the quote. On Saturday, I felt like I wasn't moving forward. My frustration got the better of me and ate up any productivity I had started out with that day. I realize my impatience and know that to truly be creative and successful in happiness, you don't always need what you thought you wanted.


Joel is about the age now, Andrea and I were here.