I woke up this morning so excited to go out into the warm spring sunshine\u2026I put on my short sleeved shirt and sandals, and I opened my door to find ridiculously cold wind and rain! NOOOOOO!!!\u2026. Back inside I went to change my sandals for winter shoes and put on my warmest sweater. I was so disappointed! I do NOT like cold rainy weather\u2026I JUST WANT SUNSHINE!!!<\/p>\n
As I began driving to work, totally grumpy about the weather, I realized how much I had let bad weather affect my mood. I had been excited about the day when I thought there was going to be sunshine out my door, yet here I was feeling all bummed out and down…was I really going to let a little rain have that much control of my happiness? That\u2019s when it hit me \u2013 some days you just have to be willing to create your own sunshine!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amazing how just a simple thought is all it took to help me pull myself out of my grumpy mood into a happy mood again. It was that simple thought that helped me recognize how silly I was being to let external factors impact my decision to be happy today.<\/p>\n
As my daughter always reminds me, \u201cHappiness is a choice!\u201d Happiness doesn\u2019t come from the sunshine or any other external factor. Happiness is nothing more than a decision\u00a0we make. Happiness is deciding to focus on the positive things instead of the negative. Happiness is\u00a0deciding to keep difficult external circumstances in perspective with how blessed life truly is. Happiness is deciding to be grateful for every amazing thing in life.<\/p>\n
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n always bring your own sunshine.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n – Anthony J.D. Angelo<\/p>\n I want to close with a poem that perfectly illustrates how a little change of thought can change our entire perspective:<\/p>\n Worst Day Ever?\u00a0\u00a0 (by Chanie Gorkin)<\/span><\/p>\n Today was the absolute worst day ever Now read that same poem again, this time starting at the bottom line and reading it\u00a0upward and with that simple shift in perspective you will see\u00a0how the poet really felt about her day.<\/p>\n Create your own sunshine \u2013 choose to be happy! And have a fabulous weekend, no matter what the weather does \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up this morning so excited to go out into the warm spring sunshine\u2026I put on my short sleeved shirt and sandals, and I opened my door to find ridiculously cold wind and rain! NOOOOOO!!!\u2026. Back inside I went to change my sandals for winter shoes and put on my warmest sweater. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1041,395,501,5784,46,7058,1677,1667,60,550,63,504,9453,9450,163,282,97,41,67,2500,9451,606,2535,7492,244,65,1238,55,4858,180,451,629,9452,35,824,1244,134,143,1520,9449,3995,1175,5006,112,2042,355,81,685,708,149,804,608,238,260,516,9448,8881],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affect","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciative","tag-attitude","tag-attitude-of-gratitude","tag-bad","tag-bad-day","tag-beautiful","tag-blessed","tag-blessings","tag-choice","tag-choose-to-be-happy","tag-cold-weather","tag-courage","tag-decide","tag-decisions","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-evil","tag-external-factors","tag-good","tag-good-day","tag-goodness","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-grumpy","tag-happiness","tag-happiness-is-a-choice","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-inspiration","tag-internal-factors","tag-love","tag-mind","tag-mood","tag-perspective","tag-poem","tag-rain","tag-rainstorm","tag-reality","tag-satisfaction","tag-seasons","tag-self-improvement","tag-shine","tag-silly","tag-smile","tag-spring","tag-storms","tag-success","tag-summer","tag-sunshine","tag-thankful","tag-thanks","tag-thoughts","tag-true-happiness","tag-warm-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd don’t try to convince me that
\nThere’s something good in every day
\nBecause, when you take a closer look,
\nThis world is a pretty evil place.
\nEven if
\nSome goodness does shine through once in a while
\nSatisfaction and happiness don’t last.
\nAnd it’s not true that
\nIt’s all in the mind and heart
\nBecause
\nTrue happiness can be attained
\nOnly if one’s surroundings are good
\nIt’s not true that good exists
\nI’m sure you can agree that
\nThe reality
\nCreates
\nMy attitude
\nIt’s all beyond my control
\nAnd you’ll never in a million years hear me say
\nToday was a very good day<\/p>\n