Choose Your Own Adventure | Happiness Realization. You and Your Perception | Happiness Realization. Your own perception of reality is skewed by the experiences you have had during your life. Every experience forms a belief of some sort, either for the positive or negative of a particular situation. The next time you encounter that situation your past experience carries over into it and gives your mind an image of the likely outcome. We were created to think like this and react in this fashion. No one person can hold all the knowledge of the universe or experience all there is to experience. All experiences, both the good and the bad, are an important part of that picture. The danger comes when we begin to assume that our perception of reality is the only one or the “right” one. If part of our purpose here is to grow and learn and share with each other and from each other, doesn’t it make sense that we have to remain open not only to each other but also to other possible realities and perceptions?
Each of us is the center of our own universe. Like this: Like Loading... Walk with Me. A Different Kind Of Birthday Celebration My daughter was 8 years old when she was taken from us. Just 8 birthday celebrations into her life before it was over. She was taken 6 months before her 9th birthday. Exactly halfway through her 8th year.I hadn’t moved on to good days and bad days yet when her birthday rolled around.
I was still at good moments and bad moments, but time doesn’t wait for you to grieve. View On WordPress I Pulled the Wool Over My Own Eyes Today the Daily Prompt asks to tell about a time when someone had you completely fooled, where the wool was pulled right over your eyes and you got hoodwinked, but good.It seems like that has happened so often in my life. View On WordPress You Are So Incredibly Fortunate It’s funny how people don’t realize how much they have and how lucky they are.
View On WordPress Thirteen Years Have Passed Grieving the loss of a child different for every one of us. View On WordPress Paying it Forward #grief #loss #help #charity View On WordPress. 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life. At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action.
All you have to do is take small steps, and take them consistently, for a period of 100 days. Below you’ll find 60 small ways to improve all areas of your life in the next 100 days. Home 1. Day 1: Declutter MagazinesDay 2: Declutter DVD’sDay 3: Declutter booksDay 4: Declutter kitchen appliances 2. If you take it out, put it back.If you open it, close it.If you throw it down, pick it up.If you take it off, hang it up. 3. A burnt light bulb that needs to be changed.A button that’s missing on your favorite shirt.The fact that every time you open your top kitchen cabinet all of the plastic food containers fall out. Happiness 4. 5. 6. How many times do you beat yourself up during the day? 7. Learning/Personal Development 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson. Learn more about the science of success with Heidi Grant Halvorson’s HBR Single, based on this blog post.
Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do. 1. To seize the moment, decide when and where you will take each action you want to take, in advance. 3. Fortunately, decades of research suggest that the belief in fixed ability is completely wrong — abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. 7. 8. 9. A Letter To My Younger Self. Not long ago, I read a post by Jamie Ridler on Roots Of She, about the kind of advice she would give to her younger self.
I think I recall writing a bit about it during #reverb10 as well, but I never allowed myself to get too far into it, because I was scared of what might come out. But the other day, Jess at So Uprightly Burning did a post on her letter to her 10-years-ago self, and it inspired me to finish mine. So here it is: A Letter To My Younger Self.
Me at around 14, and me today, 10 years later. Dear beautiful Jen, Well, you’re 14 years old. Your anxieties at school will get worse, you won’t feel safe in your own home, your self-esteem will be virtually non-existent, and people you love will die. You will feel so ignored at school that when your favourite art teacher reaches out to you, you will be so surprised that you won’t know how to respond. It’s all going to be okay. The next few years will be dark, but there is so much light, so much good, waiting for you on the other side. Dear Me | | A Letter To My Sixteen-Year Old Self. Dear 16 year old Erica, You have been through so much already and life hasn’t shown you many positives yet but they are coming your way, I promise.
You just have to prove the system wrong and that you can successfully make it through life. Continue reading Hello there, 16 year old me! I expect that part way through this letter you would’ve crumpled this up, declaring it utter rubbish and hurling it in the nearest (recycling) bin. That part hasn’t changed- being “green”- but so many other things have. Dear Sal, Hey there young lass. Dear Andy Please read this and think hard, i wish someone wrote this to me.Firstly, you are a mirror image of your father, he is not so bad after all, he is looking out for you. do not ignore him and give him such a hard time. To my 16 year old self, I wouldn’t change a thing. Some things I wish I’d known though: Continue reading Dear Manish, Hey what’s happening kid? Back Dear 16 Year Old Self… Dear Tare, I don’t really know what to tell you. Regrets? I have a few. I always find it funny to see these things that say "I wouldn't change my past because it made me who I am". Ok let's be real here.
I'd change SO much. If I could go back knowing what I know now, I'd worry less about what others think and remember to just enjoy my youth. I'd kiss the boy who made me a ring and told me we'd be married someday instead of laugh. I'd argue with my mother less and appreciate her more. I'd call my father more often just to say hello. I realize that my experiences have made me who I am and I DO like who I am but let's not be silly here.
And so many of us DO have regrets. I'd love to write myself a letter and send it to the 14 year old me. Dear Tracy, I know you don't understand why some people are mean and cruel but it's really more about them than it is you. I know you want so much to be a writer, a teacher, a minister, a psychologist, and so much more. Someday you are going to be a mom too. Don't hang on to your pain and anger so tightly. Keep reading! Luv Me.