The week your dad dies is not what you’d normally consider happy, and yet I don’t have to look hard to find moments worth highlighting.
Read More...Posts Tagged ‘peace’
The Power of Peace
Understanding how a Central American country survives without an army could help you define happiness on your own terms.
Read More...You Can’t Be Happy If You Run From Your Feelings
I used to ask my therapist what I was supposed to do with all of my bad feelings. “Feelings aren’t good or bad,” she’d say. “Feelings just are. The only thing you can do is feel them.” She was only partly right, as it turns out. The other thing I can do is run from them – but that never seems to work out very well for me.
Read More...Living Between the Events
I am a goal-oriented person. I’m constantly working towards something. A garage sale. A trip. A move. A deadline. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the journey as much as the destination, but I enjoy a journey with direction so much more than aimless wandering. But I think real happiness – real peace – is [...]
Read More...Know Your Harbor
“My son Jake drew this in school – It’s Jake’s Harbor. If you could build your own harbor what would you put in it?” – Facebook update from Dawn Sandomeno. You know what motivational speakers forget to tell you? Personal growth sucks. I mean, the benefits of personal growth don’t suck, but the actual growing [...]
Read More...
