For the last couple of days, all I’ve done is record podcasts. I put them together. But I didn’t work on the properties. I didn’t write descriptions. I didn’t do any transcripts, either.
I just recorded. So, I felt pretty impressed with myself when I had a couple of days’ worth of podcasts uploaded to the appropriate website by lunchtime. But the day was about to get even better.
Julia was in town this morning at her office doing couples counseling. And… When she came home around 11:45 AM she walked into my study, spun me around in the chair and started kissing me all over like crazy and just kept saying, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It worked. Thank you. It really worked! Thank you!”
When she finally let me come up for air, I asked, “What really worked?” And, she said, “The Journaling as If thing you told me about a while back.” I was like, “Ok? Do tell.”
As it turns out, what Julia had been doing was taking her notes from sessions that didn’t go well and writing in a journal how she wanted the session to go. Writing it out as if it had gone that way and then just let it go. She forgot about it, which is pretty much how Journaling as If is supposed to work.
So, just to clarify here. What your doing is you are writing about the day you wanted to have as opposed to the one that you actually did. That’s the simplest explanation.
Obviously, if you have a lot of positives in the day, you can write about those. But if you have a lot of negatives in the day, or even just one or two that really bother you, you can write about those as if they hadn’t occurred at all or had turned out in a more positive fashion.
I do this a lot myself and Julia knows this. And… It really makes for a much much better night’s sleep.
Apparently, she’d been doing this journaling in her office before she came home or sometimes when she was done with the last session of the day here in her study. She also admitted that there were a few times when I thought she was in the bedroom sleeping and she was actually laying in bed writing while I was doing my journaling, which is cool. “I totally support that kind of thing.”
So, apparently, one of the scenarios she journaled about actually took place in her office this morning. And… While she will no longer have the couple as clients, she was very very pleased that scenario had worked out the way she wanted, “And that is always a good thing!”
After she explained all this to me, we decided a lunch at Town and Country would be a good way to celebrate and I’ve got to tell you, “Dave makes a mean grill chicken salad.” And… It’s always cool to see Pauline (who was one of the original owners) and Maria (who also works there).
After that, we came back to the house. When Julia checked the mail, she found something from DMV, which we were waiting for involving a boat registration and registration of trailer for said boat that we had purchased a couple of weeks ago. So, we have the plate for the trailer and Julia is saying it’s time to go pick the boat up in the next day or two. So… We’ll probably do that on Sunday.
Then it’s just a question of taking this thing and retrofitting it so that it becomes a sailboat instead of just a rowboat. I’m looking forward to this project. I think it will be pretty cool.
It rained on and off this afternoon, sometimes rather intensely and we decided to swing by our Newtonian Gardens apartment to check things out. We found a package on the front porch for Maria Cangelosi, the downstairs neighbor. So… On our way upstairs to check on our apartment we brought her package inside and set it down by her front door where it would be dry. Cardboard and water don’t always mix well, “You know?”
After hanging around the apartment for a little while and checking things out… Doing a little cleaning, and this that and the other thing… And… Of course, our usual fooling around that we do, which kind of makes everything fun… We decided to head home and just have a light dinner.
And… Somehow… We wound up in bed. And… You know the drill. As they say, “The rest, at least for a couple of hours, is history,” because I just can’t kiss and tell about, “Everything.” I mean, I could but…
“Anyhow…” She’s in her study journaling and I’m in here doing this and… “God is good!”