A few days ago I entered a post about the perfect day.  It was one of those crystal clear days with perfect temperature and clean, fresh air.  I thought a person would have to try to have a bad day in weather like that.  That thought began a new way of responding to my internal and external worlds.

Today was a day I knew would come.  It is not a perfect weather day.  It is a day of cloud and gentle to heavy rain.  It is a day when not everything has gone my way.  I have looked forward to this day!  That may sound odd.  Why look forward to something like this?

I wanted an imperfect weather day to see if I could still make my decision stick that today is a perfect day.  I wanted to determine that my decision is more important than is the situation in how I understand my life.  You know what!  I found that I’m correct!  Today really is a perfect day, no matter the weather or the way things have gone.  Today is a perfect day because I decided that it would be a perfect day.

I’ve noticed that anytime I’m feeling a bit down or upset or whatever, all I need do is say to myself, “This feeling is honest.  However, today is a perfect day, because I decided it would be.”  Every time I do that, my internal feelings completely change instantly for the better.

There are many weeks of importance in my life, weeks which changed my life from then on.  I think of the week my father died. I think of the week of my faith awakening.  I think of the week I met my wife to be.  I think of the week of our wedding.  There are others like adoptions, graduations, jobs, baptism and the like.  In my 52 years there have been a number of life changing weeks.

This week will rank with one of those important weeks.  The other weeks mentioned had to do with an accomplishment or something happening.  This week is different.  This week will is transformative because of a change of thought, or a change of understanding.

I use to see things as happening to me.  I would be thankful when good things happened and not so happy how when what I wanted didn’t happen.  Now is different.  Now, I decide to have a perfect day and everything else follows.  Again, does that mean everything goes exactly as I want?  No!  Yet, that isn’t the point.  The point is that I make the decision.  I decide!  I no longer waste energy blaming the exterior or interior.  I decide to have a perfect day no matter what is happening.

I decide to keep control of my life and world rather than give it to some exterior force. Even now as I write there is such a sense of peace in this reality.  I am looking out the window as I write to see the clouds and rain and I say to myself, “I am having a perfect day because I have decided to have a perfect day.”

This one act changes everything.  This one act of thought changes how I understand stress and how I Let Go (my first book) of what I don’t need.  This week is exactly what I needed to move forward with my second book (I Am Decision).

This week has truly been amazing.  Most amazing of all is that it had nothing to do with anything that happened or that I did.  It’s had everything to do with an observation leading to a hypothesis which is proving to be true.

I am so thankful.  I am so thankful to God who gave me the ability to observe, reason, question, and hypothesize.  I praise The Lord for a way to see the world differently.  May God Almighty receive all the glory for this discovery and understanding.

I trust that these observations and findings will be helpful to others.