Tag: life

Receiving

In a short meditation this morning, the speaker discussed the act of receiving.

It got me thinking a bit.

We are all pretty good at receiving things everyday.

We receive the breaths our body takes. We receive the sunlight on our face, the coffee into our mouths.

However, many of us are not adept at receiving others’ praise and thanks.

We push it off “No problem.” “It was nothing.”

Instead of actually receiving their “Thank you” and saying “You are very welcome.”

When we push it off, we may think we are being humble, but in fact we are denying them the ability to give their gift of thanks to us.

We are taking that gift and throwing it into the fire.

Be cognizant of accepting (graciously) the gratitude of others. Give them the gift of acceptance.

Thank you!

Ordinary becomes extraordinary!

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Thanks for sharing Jessica!

 

“There is great potential for happiness hidden in our day-to-day existence, and fully realizing this veiled joy is often little more than a matter of savoring each of our experiences to the fullest extent possible. When we regard the happenings that define our days as ordinary or insignificant, we inadvertently rob them of any meaning they might have conveyed. Yet the ordinary becomes extraordinary each time we admit to ourselves that life’s smallest pleasures and most commonplace events can touch us deeply. As we learn to appreciate and enjoy the world around us, we begin to see that we need not go in search of fun because there is so much of it to be had in the experiences that make up our lives in the present.”

 

Test = strength

“The test always comes before the merit. The struggle always proceeds the strength. You have to endure breakdowns to break through them. Take it one day at a time and trust the journey…it’s far better to be exhausted from lots of effort and learning, than to be tired of doing absolutely nothing. Effort is never wasted, even when it takes time to see positive results. For it always makes you stronger, more educated, and more experienced than you ever would have thought otherwise.”

 

Thanks for sharing this, Jessica!

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Manufacture your Happiness

This is a great Ted.com talk! Dan Gilbert discusses each of us has the power to create our happiness and it does not come from the outside world. I love his summary:

“The lesson I want to leave you with, from this data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience”

He discusses a study they conducted where when people were given a choice of a painting and one group could come back and choose a different one, another group could only pick once and then keep it. The happiest group was the group who did NOT have the choice to return/to make another decision. They decided to be happy with what they had instead.

Choose to be happy today :)!