Posts tagged with “wisdom”
How to Be Successfully Content with Your Life
âSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.â ~Maya Angelou
Color within the lines. Math, physics and chemistryâthereâs absolutely no point in taking drama. A main meal of straight Aâs and a side order of volunteer work. A four-year degree with a âsafeâ major from a reputable college. Then comes the corner cubicle career at a listed company. What about the four-bedroom house and the annual holidays abroad? We canât possibly forget about those things
All through life, from infancy to adulthood, we are told what it means to be successful. We are …
When Life Feels Too Hard: How to Mindfully Get Through the Day
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“If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite personâs laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.” ~Nanea Hoffman
I am currently exhausted. Absolutely beat. Iâve taken on more work than I can comfortably accomplish in my available time, Iâve been feeling under the weather for a while, and my eighteen-month-old son …
How Curiosity Can Improve Your Relationships and Your Life
âI have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.â ~Albert Einstein
When speaking to a parent recently, she said, âI have made it a rule that my kids read every day for an hour. There are no two ways about it. They now do it and it is great, but I have noticed that they have stopped asking questions, they have stopped being curious, and they look dull, and that bothers me.â
Strange that reading would dull their curiosity instead of sparking it. But beyond that, this conversation got me curiousâabout curiosity.
Why is it important to be curious? …
Calling Out Bullies: Why You Need to Stand Up for Yourself
âStanding up for yourself doesnât make you argumentative. Sharing your feelings doesnât make you overly sensitive. And saying no doesnât make you uncaring or selfish. If someone wonât respect your feelings, needs, and boundaries, the problem isnât you; itâs them.â ~Lori Deschene
In Harper Leeâs To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character Atticus Finch says, âI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Itâs when you know youâre licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter …
5 Things You Need to Know If Youâre Interested in Meditation
âThe fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us.â ~Bokar Rinpoche
My inspiration to start meditating came from one of the most unlikely sourcesâa Star Wars movie.
When I saw the wise Jedi Master Yoda meditating, I thought that there had to be something more to this than merely sitting silently with your eyes closed.
Eventually, my curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to find out for myself.
That was over six years ago. Since then, my life has changed for the better in both subtle and …
How I Forgave When Life Felt Painful and Unfair
âForgiving someone doesnât mean that their behavior was âOK.â What it does mean is that weâre ready to move on. To release the heavy weight. To shape our own life, on our terms, without any unnecessary burdens. Forgiveness is pure freedomâand forgiveness is a choice.â ~Dr. Suzanne Gelb
It happened, again.
I was sitting opposite one of my closest family members. The irritation coming from me could almost be felt and touched in the room. One comment from him and boom, it was like pouring gasoline on a fire. I couldnât help myself, I used to get so upset in …
40 Reasons You’re Amazing and Worth Appreciating
Iâm willing to bet that most of us spend far more time focusing on what we arenât than appreciating who we are. We home in everything we think we lack and then feel bad about ourselves, when thereâs actually a lot to celebrate if we take the time recognize it.
Itâs partly a byproduct of our time: Weâre constantly inundated with pics and stories narrating everyone elseâs lives, when really, theyâre just highlight reels. Theyâre the filtered, photoshopped version of lives as messy and imperfect as ours.
And regardless of where they pose, what they wear, or what theyâre …
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Another surreal holiday in the books, for those of us in the US that is.
I hope you all had a love-filled Thanksgiving, even if that love was sent from afar.
I was 3,000 miles away from my family, though fortunate to be with my boyfriendâs parents.
After I ate way too much tofurkey and pie I spent a little time reading all the comments on this weekâs giveaway post, and I felt both sad …
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