Lacking Inspiration and Cheer

Lately I have been feeling very uninspired.
I am uninspired in my job, uninspired in my life, uninspired in my relationships. I want to be creative but my mind is dragging.
I'm uninspired with food, with exercise, with myself.
Maybe it's because I am sick with the cold, maybe it's because I'm nutritionally low in something, maybe it's because everything really is just as boring as it appears.

But things are slowly changing now, maybe because it is coming to spring? Maybe because I just decided to make a change? Maybe just because it was going to happen anyway.
But either-ither, things are changing.

As we head towards spring, the days are slowly getting longer. Yesterday morning on my way to work, I even saw some amazingly eager daffodils, although perhaps that's just a sign of a warmer winter.
See Also: Global warming.
See Also: Extinction.
See Also: End of the world as we know it.
Soon my weeping cherry tree, a reminder of a love I lost in 2010, will be budding. Not long and it will be flowering, filling it's small corner in the vegetable patch with it's beautiful hanging, soft baby pink blossoms.

At work, the new season launch for our Summer Collection (I work in retail in the fashion world) is beginning soon and all the new bright, colourful clothes are spilling out onto the floor.
Meaning exciting and fun work to be had, for the next two weeks.
We will be changing the store around, arranging the clothes as the company requires. We will be dressing mannequins and making their headless bodies beautiful.

I finally convinced myself to sign up to a Starter Course at the local unitec, so that I can learn all the things I never learnt in my home-schooled life. Like how to study and write essays.
I can write creatively, but not with much structure.
I won't know if I get to do it until after the interview in two weeks, but I'm trying to remain positive about it.

I have been in a slump and I am trying to stand up tall again. I am reading, when I haven't been for awhile.
I am making food that is delicious and healthy. I am trying to be kind and patient with my mind as I try to climb out of this hole in my head.

I am trying to look at the beautiful things in life. Focusing on the things I love instead of the things I hate.
So... As inspired by Traci French on her blog Blissfulb , here are some things I love.

I love this tree, that blossomed beautifully, in the yard of one of my many homes.

I love this Shop, and all that it stands for.

I love this Sweater, which is Fairtrade and Organic, even though it is for boys.

So, just a baby list today... But maybe next week I'll go for a little trip, maybe see if my workmate wants to come along, and get in touch with some things I love. Like architecture, art, history, nature, flowers, pastries and coffee, and I will take my camera and snap some things I love!

So what is todays little message. Todays little message, which is hanging in my mind, is do the things you love. Spend time with the things you love in life and you will be a happier and more contented person.
If you feel there is not enough positivity in your life, create some!
Example: Take some baking to work, or some flowers. Complement others. Smile. Make jokes. Dance when people are looking too serious. Nothing makes people smile more than a friend doing them a silly little dance.

Smile everybody! Be kind to the people you love and love yourself so that you may be kind to yourself.