What do you think are the keys to true happiness and life satisfaction? When a large group of millennials was asked to share their most important life goals, eighty percent said they wanted to be rich. Fifty percent said they wanted to be famous. They believed these two things would promise them the greatest chance …
Procrastination has been one of my lifelong obstacles when it’s come to getting my writing dreams off the ground. There’s always been a major distraction — or many distractions — to push my dreams to the back burner, where they wait for “the right time.” I’m glad to have used my writing for over 15 …
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Yesterday while looking for and recording quotes about joy, I ran across the following by Christopher McCandless. This one hit me hard and stopped me in my tracks: “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, …
As children we have an incredible capacity for joy. But as we grow up and experience hardships, disappointments, and setbacks, we begin to lose touch with the joy we once experienced so easily. Joy becomes ever more elusive. Certainly, we are still able to experience moments of joy, but it gets harder and harder to …
Journal Entry: Tuesday, Sep 20, 2022, 11:27 a.m. This morning Scott and I traveled to Town Beach to watch the sun rise in the east, over the water. When we arrived, the sky was painted a dusky gray. In the distance a heavy band of darker gray clouds — the color of burnished steel — …
Excerpt from a journal entry: Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 6:00 a.m. I’m at peace this morning. I love this feeling. Except it’s not a feeling, really. It’s a state. A state of being. It’s difficult to put together the right words to describe being “at peace.” But the image I have is an unpredictable ocean whose …