Tag: happiness
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Cultivating Happiness: Nurture Your Joy Daily
If we want to be happy, we have to plant the seeds that cause our happiness to sprout, grow, thrive and multiply. At the core of our happiness lies the profound understanding that we are the sole cultivators of our own joy. This concept of being the ‘gardener’ is not just a metaphor, it’s a…
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Worrying About the Future
Do you ever find yourself worrying about what the future holds? At any age, worrying about tomorrow steals the joy from today. Whenever I find myself starting to worry I remind myself of two things: 1) When I am thinking, I’m not fully in the present and therefore 2) Whatever I am worrying about, is…
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Comparison, Imperfections, Yesterday and Today
Like snowflakes, we are all beautiful in our own ways. A work of art can be perfect while filled with imperfections. Yet, what is imperfection when speaking about works of art, like humans? If we are all one-of-a-kind, with no two of us the same, how can imperfection exist? How can a one-and-only be imperfect?…
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Scoring One Hundred Percent
We all have days when we feel like we just want to quit. On particularly rough days when I feel that I’ve reached the end of my capacity to give, love, care, think, act, change, try, hear, or do whatever else is demanding more more more…I find it’s helpful to remind myself that my track…