It took me a little while in my adult life to learn that it's never up to someone else to make sure I have a good day. No one else is going to wake up and decide that for me. That is on me. Sure, I still stumble from time to time and just want... Continue Reading →
Where you are right now
It's so easy to create your own unhappiness by wishing for happiness in some other destination. By constantly telling yourself that the only way you can find happiness, relaxation, stress release, challenge or betterment is in some other place, you cheat yourself out of the ability to create it in your everyday. You accidently create... Continue Reading →
Happiness and suffering
One of the greatest mistakes in life is the pursuit of happiness without suffering. To live is to suffer. Happiness and suffering are two sides of the same coin. So once suffering is accepted and embraced, life can show you it's beauty.
Unhappiness is a choice
I've been thinking recently about how happiness is sometimes viewed as a special choice or gift and that unhappiness is seen as a default of sorts. That if we don't have this special ability to be happy, that we can't. I don't think that's true, and knowing that it's not can be uncomfortable. We choose... Continue Reading →
Inspired Lion 