Georgina Lucy | 30 May 2015

Appreciation for friends, sisters… and solutions to complex beauty dilemmas!

I saw this notebook in a shop and it caught my eye for three reasons:

1. It’s so true
2. It’s what I harp on about all the time – that it’s so important to be grateful
3. It summed up my week

One day this week I had a stinker of a day.  I was working from home, manically busy and had a headache from hell.  I was not a happy bunny at all but then my day improved when I received post that evening; a card and adorable little gift from my lovely friend Lucy, all the way from Singapore.  It honestly made my day and as I read the really thoughtful words in the card all my stress (and even the headache) disappeared and I felt so grateful to have such a wonderful friend.  In fact, this moment of extreme gratitude and happiness started me on a spiral of recognising things I’m grateful for, even just little things and this truly brightened up the following day.

Lucy’s card and gift marked a shift in my attitude.  I felt great after receiving it (especially in contrast to how I was feeling beforehand).  So much so in fact, that the next day, I paid attention to the little things I was grateful for and doing that made me feel pretty darn happy.  When you feel down, you pick up on all the things in life you are not happy about and when you feel happy, you pick up on the good stuff.  It’s addictive.

Now this is very trivial (well not to me) but for some time now I’ve been fretting about my eyebrows… yes, my eyebrows.  In a nutshell, I’d had a nightmare eyebrow wax a few months back and am now trying to to get them back in a decent state for my wedding.  Anyway, I couldn’t decide where to get them done, how many times before the wedding, what method of hair removal etc.. (I’m sorry if this is horrendously boring)  Anyway, I was being extremely indecidive but when I articulated all my very “serious” worries to my sister she made it oh so simple and solved all my problems.  So, after weeks of pondering eyebrow-gate I made up my mind and headed straight to make all my appointments in the lead up to the wedding and felt a million times better.

After that I couldn’t stop thinking – what would I ACTUALLY do without my sister?! It is not just the eyebrow related wows she gets to hear about, it’s EVERYTHING.  All day it kept popping into my head that I am so, so, so lucky to have my sister. It sounds silly for something so unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) but being made to feel so much better about something by someone else really is something to be thankful for.

Then I was off again and kept thinking of the other things I was grateful for and more good things started happening – just like a magnet, my positivity was attracting more good things. Emails came through that I had been waiting for, I negotiated a good deal on a drinks trailer for the wedding, I received great feedback from a Life Coaching client and many other things which I’ve actually now forgotten but at the time they made me happy.  When something good happens, I think just taking one little moment to be grateful and do a little internal celebration dance to yourself makes the world of difference to your attitude – and your attitude is something we have control over so why not embrace the freedom you have to make yourself feel happy?

So here’s to friendship, sisterhood and taking a little moment to be grateful for the amazing things, the good things and even the everyday things we can easily take for granted… oh and finding a solution to eyebrow dilemmas!

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