This has been possibly the most important lesson I’ve learned through our ordeal adventure of restoring our house.  I admit, I haven’t always had the best attitude 100% of the time, and I certainly still get frustrated.  It’s a work in progress.

Here are a few things I’ve been working on that help me to keep the right attitude about our adventure:

Make a decision, then move on.  I’ve always been a pretty decisive person.  My parents tell me this is why planning my wedding was so easy.  I’ve always known what I want.  But when you have to pick out 7 different types of flooring, 50 light fixtures, 12 paint colors, etc., it can get a little daunting.  So, we make a decision and we move on. What’s the worst that can happen? We don’t like it.  Easy fix!

Share your journey.  This is me sharing with you.  I’ve been so humbled by the number of people who follow this blog, and I’ve made some great blogger friends along the way.  I’ve always been one to feel better about a situation after writing it down and thinking through it, and this blog is no different.

Look forward.  Looking back can be exciting when I think about all of the progress we have made on the house since the beginning, but it can also be frustrating to see that we have been at this for 7 months and we are still not finished.  So, I’m choosing to look forward.  One day, hopefully 20 years from  now, we’ll look back and this past year will just be the blink of an eye and we will have our dream home.  So I’m looking ahead to that day.

If you can’t get out of it, get into it.  My sweet cousin-in-law Michael taught me this saying a while back and I love it.  There are things that are thrown at you sometimes that you can’t avoid, so you might as well just go with it.  I’ve seen in many areas of my life that the things that appeared to be major setbacks or obstacles at first ended up being the things that have made me who I am.

Just some food for thought.  Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful day!! :)

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