Sunday, January 2, 2011

New Years Resolution

While attending my brother's ward sacrament meeting one Sunday, I heard a fabulous talk. In this talk a woman spoke about a time where she considered herself a "mean girl" how she would always try to point out all the faults of people that she didn't like or people that she barely knew. One day she and her friend were sitting at church when another young woman walked past them and her friend leaned over to her and said, "Wow look how short her skirt is!" and instead of focusing on the hundreds of good things about this young woman they focused on the one "bad" thing they could find, and for some reasons it struck this woman that she really was just a "mean girl" instead of looking for the good in people she was always looking for the bad in people, and decided from that day on that instead of looking for the bad she was going to look for the good.

Now I wouldn't consider myself a "Negative Nelly", but I know that at times with certain people in my life instead of finding all the wonderfully good things in them I definitely have focused on the negative things about them, as to almost warrant how I was feeling about them, but in the end left me feeling like a "mean girl" at times.

So instead of the "cliche" New Years resolutions like losing x amount of pounds, exercising daily, or getting organized. This years New Years resolution is to focus on finding the good in mankind, and by doing so, I'll be a happier ME!!

5 comments:

Nicole said...

Great goal, and it's good advice too. Thanks for sharing

Kristen said...

What a great idea. Kind of like the Grapefruit story....:)

Camrin said...

Thanks for sharing! I needed this today. I think I will have to try this as well. :)

Teresa said...

Awesome :) I'm sure it will be an uplifting experience. Good advice to us all.

Corey said...

Shantel I am so glad to have found that you are keeping up on this blogging. I was sitting here waiting for the kids I babysit to be picked up, I saw the paper with the address for the blog there and thought I should check this out again. Your family has grown so much. It is great to see what you are all doing. We miss you and hope that the snow has slowed. Please give everyone extra hugs from us. Rayma