A Conscious Decision...

Subject: A Conscious Decision... Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:50 am

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2014/41565.html

Interesting article - here are some highlights:

Quote :: Making Life Yours
Perception
by Madisyn Taylor

A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize the hidden potential for fulfillment in every event.

... individuals who move through life joyously have not necessarily been blessed with lives of abundance, love, success, and prosperity. Such people have, however, been blessed with the ability to take the circumstances they’ve been handed and make them into something great. Our individual realities are colored by perception—delight and despair come from within rather than without. Situations we regard as fortuitous please us while situations we judge inauspicious cause us no end of grief. Yet if we can look at all we have accomplished without dwelling on our perceived misfortune and make each new circumstance our own, the world as a whole becomes a brighter place. A simple shift in attitude can help us recognize and unearth the hidden potential for personal and outer world fulfillment in every event, every relationship, every duty, and every setback.

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By choosing to love life no matter what crosses your path, you can create an atmosphere of jubilance that is wonderfully infectious. A change in perspective is all it takes to change your world, but you must be willing to adopt an optimistic, hopeful mind-set. ....you must learn to observe life’s complexities through the eyes of a child seeing everything for the first time. You must furthermore divest yourself of preconceived notions of what is good and what is bad so that you can appreciate the rich insights concealed in each stage of your life’s journey. And you must strive to discover the dual joys of wanting what you have.

1/13/2014 Ann.. Love it.... Joe

1/13/2014

Ann..

Love it.... A Conscious Decision... 950944

Joe

Subject: Re: A Conscious Decision... Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:58 am

What Joe said.

Subject: Re: A Conscious Decision... Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:01 am

I thought of you, Alice, as I was reading it. It's why you are my hero.

Annie

Subject: Re: A Conscious Decision... Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:07 pm

People always quote Abraham LIncoln as saying you are as happy as you choose to be. Some days I choose to wallow in my depression. I only give it a few hours though - don't want to waste any more than that.