Frustrations

So the last few days have been very frustrating...both internal and external groups have pushed me to the brink of screaming at work. I take my job and responsibilities very seriously... sometimes maybe too seriously.

I find it interesting how sometimes that when you are in the moment of frustration, or in my current case the days of frustration, the universe or a higher power (which ever you happen to believe in), steps in and repeatedly hits you over the head until you finally start to listen. That is how I am beginning to feel.

The husband and I are still trying to figure out some of the things that go along with being a married couple and coming from different religious backgrounds (I am Methodist and he is Catholic). Neither of us were very good about getting to church before we got married, but are making a concerted effort to go each week to some sort of service. Right now we are doing the one week Methodist, one week Catholic thing trying to see where we fit.

Anyway, the point is that this weekend we attended a local Catholic church and the priest spoke about not dwelling on the negative and not tearing down other people to make yourself feel better. He might as well of started the sermon with "NDC please listen to the following closely as it is very appropriate to your current situation!!!!!" As I said above there have been a lot of frustrations at work and I have noticed that my "venting" is focused on identifying what everyone else is doing wrong and dwelling on everything bad the people I interact with are doing. I do acknowledge my lack of perfection, but again the point is I am dwelling.

Then today at the gym I was watching TV while riding the stationary bike and just flipped through channels and ended up on Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture." And he was at the point where he says that he was inspired by a gentlemen with the Disney Imagineering company that used to say "Wait long enough and people will impress you." What a positive way to look at things...I am going to have to learn patience. I have decided to read the book based on Pausch's lecture as my next book, one of my best friends gave it to me for my 30th birthday. I think it is perfect timing.

So between the book, the priest, and the professor I think the universe is telling me to take a deep breath and follow the infamous words of the serenity prayer...change the things you can change and accept those that you can't.

I am definitely a work in progress, but hopefully I can learn to slow down and not get as frustrated by those people that I find difficult to deal with at times...here's hoping!

Also I am very excited about blogging before the 10 on Tuesday (even if it was on Monday).