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Feel Good Tip of the Day

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A Feel Good Happening

On my way out of the gym, I stopped to talk to a friend. He was in between sets working on his biceps, He was beaming about his son. His son just received a big promotion. My friend was exercising his bragging rights. He felt good. I wasn’t about to steal his thunder. The moment was his. He was basking in his son’s success. He went on to tell me that he was proud of his son’s success and even prouder of the man his son had become. I like hearing feel good stories. The world needs more of them.

Thinking Out Loud

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Today’s Challenges Will Vanish

In her work, Optimism, Helen Keller writes, “If we compare our own time with the past, we find in modern statistics a solid foundation for a confident and buoyant world-optimism. Beneath the doubt, the unrest, the materialism, which surround us still glows and burns at the world’s best life a steadfast faith. To hear the pessimist, one would think civilization had bivouacked in the Middle Ages, and had not had marching orders since. He does not realize that the progress of evolution is not an uninterrupted march.”. P. 27

NOTE: Helen Keller’s essay, Optimism, was written in 1903 and published in 1904, well over a hundred years ago. Yet, in reading this passage it feels as if it is describing our current circumstances. The passage should give one hope that the  struggles of today will be conquered. We will grow stronger to face a new set of challenges in the future. Yet, we should have no doubt that the human spirit will survive and thrive and that good will ultimately prevail.

Quotes to Brighten Your Day

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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Feel Good Tip of the Day

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A Word & a Laugh

Sometimes feeling good arrives in the strangest of ways. I like to go to the library to work on my blog. I am sitting at a table. Also sitting at the table is a young guy, college aged. He’s sitting on the other side of the table off to my right. We’re both working on our Macbooks. He started to take his glasses off to rub his eyes and a lens popped out. He was embarrassed. I said, “That’s happened a hundred times to me. We both laughed. I felt good. He felt good. Yes, life is good when we connect, even in simple ways.

Thinking Out Loud

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Optimism Requires Engagement in Society

In her work, Optimism, Helen Keller discusses how she uses her optimism to transform the absence of good, “Thus my optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and  the large mind transcend.” Pp 12-13

NOTE: A true optimist doesn’t deny suffering or evil. The true optimist, like Helen Keller, has a firm belief that good will eventually triumph over evil, love will always win, and that hope fuels the ride into the future. An optimist is a transformative agent who seeks ways to remedy negative situations and turn them into positive outcomes. Being a true optimist requires hard work and involvement in life. Optimist you will transform our world. Never lose hope.

 

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Feel Good Tip of the Day

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What Are You Seeing?

I have eyes that see sights, people, animals, trees, flowers, movement, and letters on a page or screen and they send messages instantaneously to my brain to process. My eyesight has saved me from stepping on a coral snake, a large fire ant hill, and numerous other situations. We don’t think about our eyesight until it’s limited or gone. Just looking about and seeing people we love, a deep blue sky, or the evenings constellations should make one  feel good. Take a moment and marvel at the miracle of your eyesight and all the wonders it brings to you.

Daily Quotes to Brighten Your Journey

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“Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.”

Albert Einstein

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