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		<title>How Winnie The Pooh Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Brennan]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eeyore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh lately and there some pretty good &#8220;life lessons&#8221; within the story. You know, like when Piglet gives up his beloved family home to Owl because he doesn&#8217;t want to hurt Eeyore&#8217;s feelings. Or when Rabbit invites Pooh in for lunch, even though he knows Pooh will eat all his honey. And I realized that the more I watched Winnie the Pooh, the more I started to find people in my life who represented those characters. So, who was I? I found myself relating to a lot of them, but when it really came down to it, I couldn&#8217;t really pinpoint just one&#8230; and then it hit me&#8230;Am I Eeyore? Some people might think I&#8217;m crazy for thinking this, but maybe it was true? I started thinking back about some recent conversations I&#8217;d had with people and most of them were rants or complaints. O.M.G! Maybe I AM Eeoyre?!! I guess I did have a tendency to be a realist and being positive and upbeat wasn&#8217;t as much of a priority as it should have been. Or maybe I wasn&#8217;t considering that simply expressing my opinion could really impact someone&#8217;s day in a negative way. I&#8217;ve always been pretty shy, so I think part of a way to &#8220;break the ice&#8221; has always been for me to just rant, bitch, or say something sarcastic to get the conversation going (the awkward silence KILLS me!). Inside, I feel like I&#8217;m very thoughtful and kind, but was I doing a good job at reflecting this to others? It didn&#8217;t appear so&#8230; At that moment (a couple months ago), I made the decision to start being more positive! I vowed that I would no longer be the Eeyore character in life! It took me about a week or two to really &#8220;adjust&#8221; and I&#8217;d catch myself being negative often, but now, I&#8217;m in a much better &#8220;place&#8221; than I was before and I&#8217;m much happier!! Here&#8217;s what I did: I Stopped Being Sarcastic Being sarcastic is basically saying something rude or negative, but in a funny way. It&#8217;s almost never a positive. I Pause Before I Speak If it&#8217;s not positive, I don&#8217;t say it&#8230;&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have anything nice to say, don&#8217;t say anything at all&#8221;. I Remind Myself That Most of My Struggles Are Not-So-Bad Sometimes I used to feel like the world is crashing down on me, and then I&#8217;d realize that it was only something as small as my dog barking at the doorbell while my son was napping. When I started looking at life with a bigger lens, I stated to see that most things weren&#8217;t-so-bad at all. So now, I ask myself, &#8220;Is it going to be something I am still thinking about in a month, or even a year?&#8221; If the answer is no, it&#8217;s probably not that bad. I Find Ways to Recharge Myself I realized that many of the times I&#8217;d want to snap at someone or start an argument had nothing to do with the person on the other end of the conversation and EVERYTHING to do with me (it&#8217;s not you, it&#8217;s me&#8230;seriously!). I realized that I need to take time to de-stress and recharge in a way that works for me so I wasn&#8217;t always on edge! I Measure Life in Shorter Increments of Time I found that if I measured life in smaller intervals, it allowed me to recover and bounce back quicker and easier. I&#8217;d much rather say I had a bad morning, than an entire bad day&#8230;right? &#160; Honestly, once I started down the path of positivity, it has really been quite easy to make the change! Every now and then I catch myself, but it&#8217;s easy to find my way back on track. Everyone has to bitch and rant every once in a while, that&#8217;s part of &#8220;recharging&#8221;, but if you think it&#8217;s something you do on a regular basis&#8230;sit back and reevaluate? Ask yourself, &#8220;Am I Eeyore?&#8221;. If you are, it&#8217;s time for a change my friend, because I hate to say it&#8230;but Eeyore is an ass!]]></description>
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