Tips, advice, and reflections on living your best life
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On his GoodLife Project, Jonathan Fields shares the story of a lawyer who left a 22-year successful practice when she no longer woke up with a smile.
Listen to her story and then share in the comments how you had the courage (or wish you did) to make a change in your life when you realized it was time.
As we all pause to mourn the loss of Steve Jobs, let us reflect on the gift he gave us during his lifetime. Most will think that his greatest gift is his contribution to the computer and entertainment world. But it’s more than that.
At a commencement speech at Stanford he spoke of the path his life took and the choices he made. The fact that he was invited to speak at a university graduation was just one of many ironic and remarkable things about his life. He never graduated from college because it was restricting and delaying him from answering the call of his dreams.
He recounted the circumstances of his young birth mother being very purposeful about who would adopt her son, his leaving college to follow his dream, the hurtful experience of being fired from the company he helped found and finally the devastating news of pancreatic cancer.
Through it all Steve had a vision and life drive that perhaps few could understand. Never mind that it’s rumored that his visions were helped along by psychedelic drugs in his early days, he left us a gift nonetheless.
Thank you, Steve Jobs, for your gift. May we open our gift and continue to be inspired, encouraged and enriched by it.
P.S. In case you didn’t see that Stanford commencement speech, I’ve posted it above.
August is Happiness Happens Month, started by the Secret Society of Happy People in 1999. The group is no longer a secret since they boast over 14, 000 “Likes” on Facebook. You can learn more about them on their website, http://www.sohp.com
The Society has three purposes for this month:
These sound like some good ideas for any time of the year, but it won’t hurt to be extra mindful of creating your happiness this month.
Some of the ways you can celebrate
What are some ways you will celebrate this month?
I hear this a lot, and until I read Tim Miles response to a similar question, I didn’t have a good comeback.
Now I do.
So you want to be like me when you grow up?
Okay, here goes in no particular order.
It’s a common habit for us to want what we don’t have and want more of what we do? It’s the topic of our conversations, and it’s what advertisers count on to increase their profits.
And yet, when we get our last desire, we are still not satisfied.
When my oldest daughter was in elementary school, she wanted to have straight hair like one of her Anglo classmates. Her classmate’s mom disclosed to me that her daughter came home asking her to curl up and twist her hair like my daughter’s.
If we continue in this manner, always wanting what we don’t have, there’s a real danger that we won’t appreciate and enjoy what we do have. The tragedy of that is we miss out on our own happiness, sometimes working ourselves into an unfortunate unhappiness, depression, or disorder.
When I saw Nick Vijucic on the following video, I felt ashamed for ever having neglected to be grateful for all my blessings. I bet you’ll feel the same way when you watch it.
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