February 6th, 2018
Day #35
I don't care to be happy all the time.
I see the value in other emotions, and happiness isn't the best teacher. What I do see value in is what are the things that trigger my different emotions. Sometimes, it is a specific person on social media, or a type of news story I read, or sometimes I'm just "hangry". It's important to become aware of those triggers, and to know that what may trigger you, may not impact other people, and vice versa. I see people lose their "cool" on social media over things I couldn't care less about, and sometimes they're over the top recreational outrage reactions annoy me, so I have to recognize that trigger.
There's a popular saying that we are the sum of the five people we spend the most time with. If we take that seriously for a moment, what do you learn from identifying who those five people are, and should those five people remain as your top 5? I'm not pushing a specific way to be happy, or a specific lifestyle, belief for everyone to prescribe to. I just want people to become more self-aware, because with that awareness comes a stronger understanding of self and the world around us. The more self-aware people exist on this planet, the better off the entire planet will be.
I hope you can go through your list of triggers, and make some baby changes to your lifestyle and daily habits to reduce them. Sometimes those changes are going to be difficult, but anything worth doing will be difficult. If it was easy, people like me wouldn't need to exist. So please take some time, lean back, and ask, "what choices am I making that help/hurt the smiles in my life?"
It's never too early to do some spring cleaning.
- M
Day #35
I don't care to be happy all the time.
I see the value in other emotions, and happiness isn't the best teacher. What I do see value in is what are the things that trigger my different emotions. Sometimes, it is a specific person on social media, or a type of news story I read, or sometimes I'm just "hangry". It's important to become aware of those triggers, and to know that what may trigger you, may not impact other people, and vice versa. I see people lose their "cool" on social media over things I couldn't care less about, and sometimes they're over the top recreational outrage reactions annoy me, so I have to recognize that trigger.
There's a popular saying that we are the sum of the five people we spend the most time with. If we take that seriously for a moment, what do you learn from identifying who those five people are, and should those five people remain as your top 5? I'm not pushing a specific way to be happy, or a specific lifestyle, belief for everyone to prescribe to. I just want people to become more self-aware, because with that awareness comes a stronger understanding of self and the world around us. The more self-aware people exist on this planet, the better off the entire planet will be.
I hope you can go through your list of triggers, and make some baby changes to your lifestyle and daily habits to reduce them. Sometimes those changes are going to be difficult, but anything worth doing will be difficult. If it was easy, people like me wouldn't need to exist. So please take some time, lean back, and ask, "what choices am I making that help/hurt the smiles in my life?"
It's never too early to do some spring cleaning.
- M
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