What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
— Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama
As wonderful as the holidays can be, they can also be exhausting. By the time I get through Christmas, I’m so worn out that I have a very hard time even considering making resolutions. I have to rest up or I feel completely unable to do anything but put my head down and just keep moving.
This year, as I head for my big X0th birthday (I’m not telling), I’ve decided to try something different. I want to be happier with my life. I’m getting way too old to wait for someday, so this is the year of building a healthier and happier me.
I’m inviting you to join me on this journey. I’m not sure where it’s going to take me but I’m beginning today. Would you like to join me? I’d love to have you come along. I’m starting with my whine list – by defining what works for me and what doesn’t.
What stops us from being happy?
I know that part of what stops me is that at certain times, I whine – to myself, of course – about all the things that aren’t exactly to my liking. You probably have a “whine list” too –reasons that you are unhappy – or at least, not as happy as you want to be. It’s probably not a huge feeling, just something that weighs you down – telling you that you’re not really happy. So, before we go any further with this post, do me a favor and make a list of the things that are making you unhappy today. Continue reading » Happily Flourishing
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
— Ernest Hemingway
I love stories.
I’ve been making my way, very slowly, through Michael Yapko’s Hand-Me-Down Blues
. As with most good books on a specific topic, Yapko uses stories to illustrate his points. The minute he starts telling about a person or a family, I’m hooked. The thing is that these stories are carefully crafted to Continue reading » Seeing Things Differently
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
To get through life, we often impose a level of certainty that really doesn’t exist. We make future plans based on past performance. We “assume” that things will continue at least as well as they did before and probably will get better over time. For our parents, this was always a fairy tale. For us, reality slapped us in the face during the market crash of 2008-2009.
My first “professional” job was with a company that had never Continue reading » Finding Our Personal Power
Have you experienced “chaos on the cusp of order” in your life? How do you figure out when to take a breather and how to return with new energy?
Sunday, already in a BAD mood but boxed-in by time constraints, I tackled my piled-high desk, trying to create an orderly working-space for doing my most hated cluster of tasks – ones my husband (a cost accountant by education and profession) used to do before cancer stole him from us – THE BILLS. And suddenly, wham! I’m on the verge of despair and tears, helplessly bemoaning: “I’ll NEVER get this done, this is hopeless. I just can’t do this!”
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