Life

Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is about.

The more energy you waste comparing your life to someone else’s and trying to be like them, the less energy you have to be who you are, to share your gifts, and to access and experience the profound level of health, wealth, and beauty that come along as a result of you being YOU.

You are unique. Appreciate it and live happily with it.

As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”

We seem to think that we’ll live forever. We spend time and money as though we’ll always be here. We buy stuff as though it matters and is worth the debt and stress of attachment.

We put off “living happily ever after” for another year, because we assume we have another year. We don’t tell the ones we love how much we love them often enough because we assume there’s always tomorrow.

But then, as Seneca writes…

No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself. Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly. It will not lengthen itself for a king’s command or a people’s favor. As it started out on its first day, so it will run on, nowhere pausing or turning aside. What will be the outcome? You have been preoccupied while life hastens on. Meanwhile death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that.

Stop being so busy, I must request you here. You won’t get this life again. Try to spend some time with yourself and your loved ones.

Do less, be more. That’s a great process to be happy, and that’s the way you can live wide if not long.

When you have expectations of something, you put it in a pre-designed box that has little to do with reality.

Expectations plague your daily life, causing you to be disappointed and disillusioned. Expectations are so dangerous that you can persist in maintaining them even after you have clear evidence that they are unfounded.

Try to experience reality as it is, appreciate it for what it is, and be happy that it is.

Your child needs to know that she is important. She needs to know she is loved and she needs to know she is secure.

Your pleasure from your new house and your latest pay raise may subside (and I have experienced that several times in my life). It’s exceedingly temporary! But the amazing experience you have from the good times you spend with your child will never fade.

Your child needs time with you. She needs your undivided attention. She needs to make happy memories with you. She needs to laugh with you.

Life can pull you in a thousand directions, and you might ignore it especially when your child is little.

But remember – She won’t stay little for long.

Life is in living NOW.

It’s all about the choices we make now, the habits we form now, the actions we take now, and the enlightenment we receive now.

Regretting about the past is like wasting time and energy on the impossible. And worrying about the future is like having no belief in your capabilities.

Live in the present. Connect with it. Accept it. Experience the joy of being.