I sat down at my computer at 9:30am this morning and here it is, now 12:50am at night (technically the next morning) and I am still sitting at my computer in the exact same spot\u2026not a joke, although I wish it was. Today has been one of those crazy hyper-focused days of trying to complete some time-sensitive presentations and financial reports but only getting through about half of what I needed to even though I literally didn\u2019t stop working for a second over the last 15 hours\u2026which led me to have a little frustrated \u201cpoor me\u201d moment tonight where I was feeling down about the fact that no matter how hard I work I can never seem to get everything done that I need to.<\/p>\n
Then, as I do at the end of every day, I opened a blank word document and stared at the computer screen wondering what I should write my blog about tonight. I typically figure that out by asking myself, \u201cWhat did I learn today?\u201d Which causes me to reflect on the good and bad from my day.\u00a0 As I began doing that I immediately felt embarrassed that I allowed myself to have that little “poor me” pity-party moment because, for one, it did absolutely nothing to make me, or my day, any better; and because it was ridiculous to feel sorry for myself when what I should have been feeling was incredibly grateful for every blessing of life. So yeah…that is what I learned today….which made me think of a great poem that is the perfect reminder that we should just be GLAD!<\/p>\n
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(by Jack Prelutsky)<\/span><\/p>\n Be glad your nose is on your face,<\/span> Imagine if your precious nose<\/span> Your nose would be a source of dread<\/span> Within your ear, your nose would be<\/span> Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,<\/span> Have a great day – and choose to JUST BE GLAD! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sat down at my computer at 9:30am this morning and here it is, now 12:50am at night (technically the next morning) and I am still sitting at my computer in the exact same spot\u2026not a joke, although I wish it was. Today has been one of those crazy hyper-focused days of trying to complete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6679,"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":[16235,168,395,501,500,16236,3697,46,16117,13049,16225,16227,550,1836,41,67,9482,7851,16229,16233,16240,5857,244,65,16234,16228,16241,16226,16239,5982,16231,16232,16237,134,16224,2250,5248,16230,112,16238,149,54,12407,250,45,6770],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-long-day","tag-adversity","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-at-the-end-of-a-long-day","tag-attitdue","tag-attitude","tag-attitude-adjustment","tag-balance-your-time","tag-be-glad","tag-be-glad-your-nose-is-on-your-face","tag-blessed","tag-embarrassed","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-feeling-sorry","tag-feeling-sorry-for-myself","tag-feeling-sorry-for-yourself","tag-finding-balance","tag-get-on-with-it","tag-get-over-it","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-how-to-balance-your-life","tag-it-could-always-be-worse","tag-jack-prelutsky","tag-just-be-glad","tag-keep-it-in-perspective","tag-long-day","tag-long-hard-day","tag-never-done","tag-never-ending-day","tag-perspective","tag-pity-party","tag-poor-me","tag-proper-perspective","tag-ridiculousness","tag-self-improvement","tag-stop-complaining","tag-success","tag-time-management","tag-too-much-to-do","tag-work","tag-work-ethic","tag-work-life-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","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=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n not pasted on some other place,<\/span>
\n for if it were where it is not,<\/span>
\n you might dislike your nose a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n were sandwiched in between your toes,<\/span>
\n that clearly would not be a treat,<\/span>
\n for you’d be forced to smell your feet.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n were it attached atop your head,<\/span>
\n it soon would drive you to despair,<\/span>
\n forever tickled by your hair.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n an absolute catastrophe,<\/span>
\n for when you were obliged to sneeze,<\/span>
\n your brain would rattle from the breeze.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n remains between your eyes and chin,<\/span>
\n not pasted on some other place–<\/span>
\n be glad your nose is on your face!<\/span><\/p>\n