cloud lifting

Early morning pep talk to myself: I've been the biggest grump, walking around with a dark cloud over my head for what feels like forever. I need to give myself some advice, or learn how to take some good advice from outside of me. I can change my attitude. If the only thing I can control is how I am feeling, then I need to choose to feel differently, and lift this shade that seems to be blocking out all of the light that shines on the good things. Good things are everywhere, I am so unbelievably lucky and I know it. I need to start acting like it! Train my brain to start the day with some positive thinking. I think I forget that some things take a bit of focus, that it is useful to really concentrate and to visualize and to be present in my thinking. I can't expect change to happen on its own. I can't expect half of the things that I tend to expect. I am going to start making more of an effort.