Holidays got you down? How do you respond to frustration & exhaustion?
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
’Tis the season for last minute EVERYTHING! There’s too much to do and a finite end-date for having those EVERYTHINGs done. I remember the year I got to January 1st and realized I hadn’t prepared and sent the Christmas cards. Oh well. I haven’t sent out Christmas cards since. One less chore to do. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy OP’s – Other People’s holiday greetings – so keep those cards and letters coming folks! And I’ll do my best to stay in touch both here at BouncebackCafe.com and however else our paths might cross.
And, while I’m not encouraging you to cease and desist on those traditions that you treasure, I do think we could all do with a time-out.
- Time to reassess what’s left on the list to decide what’s “nice-to-have” but not requisite for a good holiday celebration.
- Time to think deeply even if only momentarily about your core values and then act accordingly.
- Time to take a break and relax a little!
Continue reading » Need a Break from All the Ho Ho Ho?
Are you living in the moment? Tell us how you do it!
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was, apparently, our week of “NOW” posts. We definitely think you should get yourself some NOW time, and of course, we think you could do with some – now. In fact, I invite you to get yourself a cup a tea and put your feet up while you read on…
We opened the week at Bouncebackcafe.com admiring a traditional holiday toy – the snow globe. And suggested it as a intriguing zen analogy for a settled and clear mind – one that’s ready to Continue reading » Into the Now We Go
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
— Dwight David Eisenhower
Last year, after Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer, Primetime aired Diane Sawyer’s interview of Randy, his family and friends. Much of the footage was of conversations that took place prior to Randy’s death. In addition to the phenomenal courage and the deliberate way that the Pausch family planned for and dealt with Randy’s death, one interchange between Diane and Randy’s wife, Jai, has stayed with me.
Diane and Jai were talking about how Jai was making it through each day. Jai replied that in therapy they had discussed how we humans tend to project into the future. When she watched Randy and kids play, she would go to Continue reading » Stay Here, Now!
What are you shaking up in your world today? And what might you learn if you were to stop shaking the globe?
The snow settles and what is meant to be seen is revealed.
— ZenDotStudio
I concluded, after writing Clutter Mutterings, that clutter is mucking up more than my hearth and home. It’s also mucking up my psyche. And, every so often, looking for inspiration, I dip into my library looking for a cozy revisit of favorite passages. For the last couple of days I’ve been revisiting Embracing Uncertainty by Susan Jeffers, PhD. Jeffers comments that:
…mess in our closets, on our desks, in our kitchens, is very disorienting at times, and mess in our minds is perhaps the biggest mess of all! …our decision-making is muddled and, worst of all, we are not experiencing joy in our lives.
Her comments ring true with me – but what to do about it? Continue reading » The Gift of a Clear Mind
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
— John Lubbock
Today I stumbled across The Happiness Project , a book that hasn’t even been released yet. It is Gretchen Rubin’s account of how she tried to take all the wisdom that is out there about how to be happy and integrate it into her life.
It’s a little like the idea behind Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen only instead of food, the author focused on happiness (which some people would say is the same thing.) In a recent post, Gretchen writes about choosing to let go of one of her resolutions – “entertain more” – after having struggled with it for several years.
What she found was that when she let go of her expectation to “entertain more,” she was able to invite people over and actually enjoy both the event and their company. By not “entertaining” in the way she had been trained, she was able to Continue reading » Reasonable Expectations
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