Life Is Special, Figure What's Best About YOU!

Life Is Special, Figure What’s Best About YOU!

Living your best life starts with knowing and believing what’s “best about you.”

Seeing the good in yourself can affect every area of your life and all of your relationships. As you diligently try to sort through your good and bad traits, you will see a pattern starting to emerge. With time, you will get closer to being the person you were meant to be.

Are you a peacemaker? You always try to make others happy and let them to decide all of the choices in front of the two of you. Suggestion to self: take time and really listen to your needs and desires so you can actually make your own choices. You will be happier.

Are you a nurturer? Your friends always come to you and discuss all of their personal problems because they know you will listen with lots of compassion. Suggestion to self: balance your time on yourself and those around you, if you don’t, you will burnout.

Are you a overachiever? You love to accomplish something at the end of your day and always feel most productive when you do so. Suggestion to self: learn to enjoy the moments and relax more…you will feel better at the end of the day.

We are each like a big puzzle, but if we are serious about making the most of our life, we will finally “figure us out.”

Mary Ann Sheveland is a contributing blogger for JenningsWire, a blogging community created by Annie Jennings.

Mary Ann Sheveland

Mary Ann grew up in Brownwood, a small central Texas town. Her early love of the violin, which developed at the age of ten, and subsequent mastery of the instrument opened many opportunities for her. She was mentored and prepared for her musical journey from the director of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra. She auditioned and was selected to join the Blue Jeans Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra was underwritten by Levi Straus Blue Jean Manufacturer and the City of Estes Park, Colorado. Two musical students from each state were selected and concerts were given each Sunday afternoon in a natural amphitheater in the Rocky Mountains. Mary Ann remains an alumnus of this group which is an active symphony now making their home in Breckenridge, Colorado. Mary Ann also played in the Las Vegas, Wichita Falls and Austin Symphony Orchestras.

She had a busy career beginning at the Governor’s Office in Colorado. Then fourteen years at a Texas Trade Association. She was Manager of a Computer Magazine Publishing Company. The last few years of working were spent in sales, which led to her home office, as her husband’s health declined.

Since her husband’s death, Mary Ann has written several books, including a Book of Poetry, Children’s Short Stories, Reflections, The Pioneers and her just published book, Journey of My Heart, A Memoir.

During the last quarter of 2012 Mary Ann was engaged with speaking engagements and book signings in several states, as well as radio interviews from New York City, Dallas, Denver, Portland and Seattle, Washington.