Never Stop Looking For What’s “Over the Rainbow”! Personal Transformation story
I could not believe my eyes last night when I looked into the stormy sky and saw a double rainbow (yes this picture was taken right in my backyard)! At the end of a VERY trying day, I was not a happy camper. Nothing at all had been going my way….on many levels it was one of the worst! But the minute I laid eyes on this beautiful gift of nature, my whole mood shifted. Judy Garland started playing in my head and I got one big “kick in the butt” from the universe! 
I was reminded of the power of dreams. Not the dreams that you travel while asleep but the ones you have for your life. Do you still have dreams for your life or have you stopped believing dreams sometimes do come true? Have you stopped believing there can be something good waiting for you “over the rainbow”?
We all stop believing at one point or another. For some, it doesn’t take much to be pushed into the black hole of despair. For others, it takes more than any human should have to bear. Whatever it takes to get you there is irrelevant. It’s what you do when you get there that counts! Have you entered the black hole of despair?
As I said in my last post “How to Stay Positive…” your attitude is everything. You can’t control so many things that may be happening to you but you CAN control your attitude. You will be surprised how a small shift, just for even one minute, can get you back on track. If you don’t get back on the track, you will never finish the race!
So what did I do today to ward off the darkness? I looked around at what is good. You will be surprised what you see if you open your eyes…like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, it’s probably no further than your own backyard.
Here are some of our personal photos that remind me of what is good. I actually put them into a video so that I can view whenever needed. Enjoy! never-stop-looking-for-whats-over-the-rainbow2Wait…..before I could hit “post”, my husband called me to go outside and there, once again, was a rainbow. I think I have seen less than 10 in my entire lifetime and now two days in a row! I know good things are definitly coming!!!!!!
Warmly,
Ellen Banks
Tags: attitude, how to stay positive, personal tranformation, power of dreams, somewhere over the rainbow
July 8th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I love this post! You are right that we sometimes need a kick in the butt to be reminded of how special life really is. And when things are really hard, that is when you have to dream the most and believe in miracles.
July 8th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I saw a rainbow the other day too. For some reason, no matter how old I am, it still makes me excited to see it. A beautiful reminder of something more than just us.