Remember How Far You’ve Come
While most advice you hear says that if you want to be happy you need to forget about the negative things in the past, researchers at the University of California, Davis found the opposite to be true. When you take time to remember the challenges you’ve overcome, it can heighten your feelings of gratitude in the present. The key is to focus on being grateful for the progress you’ve made instead of resenting the ways difficult times have held you back.
Month: November 2019
Today’s Smile 😃
Two couples at a retirement community were sipping iced tea one afternoon. Harry, started talking about this fantastic restaurant he went to the other night with his wife.
“What’s it called,” Pete asked.
After thinking for a few seconds Harry said, “What are those good smelling flowers called?”
“Do you mean a rose?” asked Pete.
“Yes, that’s it,” said Harry. Harry glanced at his wife and said, “Rose what’s that restaurant we went to the other night?”
💫 Inspirational Hack ~ Take Another Shot
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.” ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Today’s Poem ~ Love
Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dreaming of love, the ardent mind of youth
Conceives it one with passion’s brief delights,
With keen desire and rapture. But, in truth,
These are but milestones to sublime heights
After the highways, swept by strong emotions,
Where wild winds blow and blazing sun rays beat,
After the billows of tempestuous oceans,
Fair mountain summits wait the lover’s feet.
The path is narrow, but the view is wide,
And beauteous the outlook towards the west
Happy are they who walk there side by side,
Leaving below the valleys of unrest,
And on the radiant altitudes above
Know the serene intensity of love.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Writer’s Muscles
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. ~ Natalie Goldberg
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ 10 Ways to Lighten Up
10 Ways To Feel Good
- Laugh out loud
- Listen to music
- Stretch
- Be thankful
- Read for fun
- Daydream
- Remember all the good things about yourself
- Create a collage representing “The Real Me”
- Write a poem
- Reward yourself
🍎 Health Hack ~ 5 of 5 Healthy Heart Tips
Pets Provide Perks
Our pets offer more than good company and unconditional love. They also provide numerous health benefits. Studies reported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggest that owning a pet may help improve your heart and lung function. It may also help lower your chances of dying from heart disease.
✨ Inspiring Quote ~ Kindness
“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”—Eric Hoffer
Today’s Poem ~ Invictus
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dream a Lot
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream. ~ Doris Lessing
