What’s good? revisited
Posted on February 2, 2022 Leave a Comment
I caught a national TV commercial the other day, where the greeting “What’s good?” was used. Casually, like it’s always been the social greeting.
I came out of my chair whooping and hollering with a dance of joy — because this is a simple yet significant signal that the world has begun changing. Or maybe is even already changed, and I’m just catching up to that now. Either way, it’s how I want my days, my life, to trend.
Here’s to automatically putting the focus on what’s going well. Now that’s a fabulous social default.
So, what’s good with you today?
Scheduling surrender
Posted on January 26, 2022 2 Comments
Sometimes our plans for the day, our goals and our schedules, get a little sidetracked as the day unfolds. It happens. And by “sidetracked” that occasionally means “totally off of the rails.” You have likely heard that this is an opportunity to embrace the idea that when our schedule goes awry, perhaps this is where we actually are supposed to be.
I was reminded of this recently, in one of my daily reading pieces. And shortly after, I experienced it.
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Posted on January 19, 2022 1 Comment
My natural state of being is in my head. I think, a lot. Even when I don’t mean to.
I’m not proud of this. In fact, it’s something I constantly try to overcome.
There I go thinking again.
I realized some time ago that I don’t always feel good about being so mental. It was about the time I learned that although it’s a superpower at times to be a good thinker, this talent does not actually resolve everything for me. Being a solid thinker does indeed get me very far, and I am grateful. But then, I hit a wall in discovering that logic, thinking, ideas, and acting on these could not actually take me where I wanted to now be. Which is a fuller version of my Self.
Let me ask you, have you ever been in a discussion with someone when you thought it was a discovery conversation and they believed it was an argument? Or you thought you wanted the lunch special that you ordered but when eating it you were disappointed in your nourishment? Maybe you bought the thing that made the most sense but you never seem to actually use it?
Read MoreSmall joys, chosen
Posted on January 12, 2022 1 Comment
Happiness isn’t a reward, an endpoint that has been earned. Happiness is a way of being, a chosen path.
Honestly, lately this is something I’ve kind of forgotten.
And so, I am making a choice to bring in more happiness. Here’s a simple practice that I am adopting, to celebrate the small joys:
Make three mindful tweaks in your daily routine, for happiness.
Here are my (current) three:
Read MoreYou are enough
Posted on January 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
Be.
Receive.
Give thanks.
It is by doing these three simple things that you are loving the world.
That you are giving a gift to the world.
The gift that is you, already.
That began with your very first breath.
Inspired by Sarah Blondin
How might you nurture your being, today?
In what ways might you allow yourself to receive?
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