Ending The Happiness Deficit

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Are you happy?

Think about it – ARE YOU HAPPY?

If not, why not?  Puhlease, don’t tell me about your bad hair day, or your flat tire, or the dog didn’t cooperate on your walk, or that your allergies are bad today.  Why aren’t you happy?

This month our Book Club book is reading The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow.  (Get used to it.  I belong to a book club, and if what we are reading has any nugget to be passed on, I will find it and deliver it to you.)  I had dreaded reading this book because one of our friends had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and another with esophageal cancer within weeks of each other in 2007.

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Changed Priorities Ahead

Changed Priorities Ahead
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How have you creatively solved changing priorities in your life?

Being able to adapt to change is an important aspect of resiliency.  So, what happens when you have to change priorities?  Well first of all, we often need a whack on the side of the head to notice that some important aspect in our lives has changed.  Once we get that message, then what?

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Cup o’ Inspiration

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

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