Satisfying, meaningful happiness

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”  – Bertrand Russell

Which would make you happier and feel meaning in your life for more than a few days – 

A – Retiring, playing golf, hanging around and drinking beer each day (or your version of this example).

B – Becoming your best self by developing your natural talents and getting better all the time, and making a difference in others lives.

Let me know your comments with the orange button!

Feeling disconnected?

Turn off the electronics and sit down and talk to somebody.

Fix your thinking

“I do not fix problems.  I fix my thinking.  The problems fix themselves.” – Louise Hay

What problem do you have, that if you fix your thinking about it, will relieve you of the problem without actually doing anything else?

Urgent and Important are not the same

Urgent is answer that phone, return the text, respond to others…

Important is what will have the biggest and most lasting impact to your future.

What is most important for you to do (take care of) right now?

Answer the question.

What is most important for you to do (take care of) right now?

Being your own problem

Sometimes you thinking there is something wrong becomes what is wrong.

Your mind believes what is vividly imagined.  We tend to believe our own thoughts.  

And if we are convinced there is something wrong, we can make it come true.

Be careful what you tell yourself and believe.

If only I had more time….

“Die first.  Then you can go about the business of living.” – Ekhart Tolle

Living each day knowing that your time here is limited, you’ll wind up living a fuller life with less regrets for what you did not do.

A great life is not a safe one.

“If you want to live a good and full life, you cannot keep asking “Is it safe”. – Dennis Prager

There will be risks – in relationships, in getting out of your comfort zone, putting yourself out there…all kinds of risks.

But taking them is to not take the ultimate risk – wasting your life by not taking risks.

Resistance leads to suffering

“This should not have happened to me”, “It’s not fair”, “I don’t deserve this”.

Our resistance to what happened is the cause of suffering.  If we can get to a place of acceptance, where we see what happened and we allow it to be, without judgement or a fight, we can have peace and move forward.

There is a great little audiobook I recommend if you want to explore this more.  It’s called “Resist Nothing” by Kim Eng, with Eckhart Tolle.

Is there something that happened that you have a grievance about that is weighing on your life and making you heavy and restricting joy?

Resist Nothing.

The world breaks everyone.

Everyone.  You are not alone.  But if you accept what has happened and don’t resist it, learn from it, and keep going, you can recover – and so much more.  You may get broken again.  That’s ok.  Learn and pick yourself up, and keep going. 

There is a lot of love and beauty and good out there.  Stay open to it.  

Give a gift today – free

I’ve been writing two Think Daily messages a day since 2009.  We have an incredibly loyal community of subscribers who have been reading Think Daily every day for many years.  

Recently one subscriber made a comment that I was very gratified to get.  He said – 

“You have better information, ideas, suggestions, and advice than my paid mental well-being professional.  Thank you.”

It made me smile.  You guys know the variety of subjects we get into here.  Many like that they never know what is coming each day, but it is always related to living a meaningful, purposeful, happy life; sometimes by shedding what causes its opposite.

So here’s my ask.  Why don’t we lever all this by getting more people that you care about involved in this thinking?  You know and care about many many people.  Sure, some people are not into investing a bit of time each day into self-improvement, but let them opt-out if they want to.

Many have referred their spouses and children.  Some have said they talk about what was on Think Daily at the dinner table each night.  

Many have referred their friends and co-workers.  Why not?  It’s free and the gift keeps on giving and the effects are far-reaching.  So how many people can you refer?

Do you know the web address?  It’s ThinkDaily.com.

You can sign someone up yourself, but just tell them you did it so they don’t report it as spam.

If everyone referred one other person we’d double the subscriber base.  Some people won’t, which leaves the rest of us to refer multiple people.

I thank you for your help – and so will those you refer!