Practice Makes Perfect

When your gym teacher/coach told you that "Practice makes perfect--practice the way you want to play!" they were right!

Practice does make perfect...and I have been practicing anger.  I have been practicing anger so long, that tiny these will send me through the roof.  And the thing I have learned about anger--it blinds you.  It blinds you to all good things.  The things you like, the things that make you smile, the things that bring you joy--none of them seem real anymore.  And anger steals.  It steals all kinds of things.  Good days, patience, moments that could be fun, your joy, your relationships.  The more you let yourself be angry, the more you have to be angry about.  This is what I have been practicing. 

Thankfully, my husband and a couple good friends have been teaching me and loving me through my anger. 

Now I am practicing joy and thankfulness.  If you practice these things, even when you don't feel them, the emotions will follow.  It's true.  Now that I am practicing these things (don't get me wrong, I still get angry, but at least now I notice it and want to change it) I like my life again.  I can find things I am thankful for--really thankful for.  And I have joy.  Joy that I used to have; joy that I can share; joy that changes my day for the better every day.

Practicing really does make perfect.  And I want to follow the advice I got so long ago: "Practice the way you want to play (live)!"