Perspective matters

It really helps to be busy. When you're busy, you take a lot of things in stride. At least, I do.

I've been frantically busy in my day job, and we're house hunting (again). My husband got a job in a nearby town and we're considering moving. So we're looking for a house, prepping our house to put on the market, I'm working on a new book that must be done in a week (3 chapters to go, whee!), I have family coming to visit for a week, I'm crazy busy at work, and I lost a tooth.

Yep, a tooth just fell out. It was one of those that had a crown, a post, and glue keeping it in place. The thing lasted 10 years longer than it should have, but one day it just fell out.

I barely noticed. Quick trip to the dentist. "Let's pull it." Okay, but not today. I'm too busy. So I'm getting it scheduled for April sometime (it doesn't hurt, so it's cool).

On any other day, I would have been all "OMG, a tooth!"

Today it's, "Next."

Perspective. It's all about perspective....

A matter of perspective

A friend of mine has a husband who was recently laid off. Not surprising given these tough times, but it caught him by surprise. He's near retirement age, but he was still panicking.

Do we have enough money for retirement?

That's a question that I think haunts a lot of people. How much is enough? When do you know that you have enough?

She's managed to calm his worries with a couple of trips to their financial planner, but it's a worry that's on everyone's mind: do I have enough?

Do I have enough money for retirement? Enough readers to sustain my career? Enough healthy days left in me? One person's 'enough' is another person's 'wealth' -- and that's important to keep in mind. Whenever I start to panic about *anything* I try to see it from another perspective.

And you know what? I almost always have enough....

J L
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