It's.....twenty twenty two!

2022 - sounds good to say, so I'm banking on this being a good year! We're approaching mid February so six weeks in I can say so far so good!  

One promise I made to myself was escape the winter. That we did. It wasn't quite the three weeks I was hoping for but 11 nights away was actually a lot for our typical 3-5 night getaways. 

Thankfully I had someone to stay with Toby, I had made plans with family and friends and the SUN SHONE on us for most of the vacation. The weather wasn't tropical, and yet it was so great to walk without snow and nice, experience gray cloud coverage, scrape car windshields and just to be able to experience the peacefulness and beauty of the ocean and palm trees. Superb. 

Now back at it at home with work to do and goals to focus on and habits to refine. I started re-reading the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" this week and it did give me a good reminder of being impacted by your environment. Productive people thrive no mater the weather and reactive people let bad weather spoil their day. Sounds a bit like me so something to evaluate on a deeper level. While the weather does impact me (to a great deal) I do realize that this is my life right now and will be for a few more years (hopefully not more than 8!) so winters away are a must and I have to remind myself to put away my negative stance on winter. Embrace the seasons. Know that this too shall pass. Do what you need to do even when it's -14 and there is no sun for days. Take the good with the bad, and that includes you Miss Mother Nature. But thank you in advance for longer days, sun and spring in a few short weeks  

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