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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Quotable?
Indecision feeds fear, sustains fear, and actually enlarges fear’s reach. (Tweet that)
Don’t let it.
Regret sucks.
So yesterday in a Facebook post, told all those 1977 Spring Grove Area High School classmates something never before shared.
“I love you. Seriously.”
The first quote is from a book inspired by fear and regret.
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It’s really not that difficult to find something to appreciate. Gratitude is good for our souls. Studies have shown that living a life of gratitude can make us happier people.
When we walk into a public restroom, we expect it to be clean. We expect there to be soap in the dispenser and paper on the roll. Someone has to do that for us.
When we go out for a meal we expect to be served food. Someone has to process it; someone has to drive it, via truck, to the restaurant. Someone has to prepare it, someone has to clean the restaurant, and someone has to make out the work schedules for the employees they had to hire. Someone had to come build the actual structure. People work to come up with the menu, and then they send it out for someone to print. Someone even had to fell the trees that were trucked to the paper plant to make the paper on which to print the food selections.
There are some jobs that are held in higher regard than others. But can you imagine if the surgical team (someone had to educate them) who is doing, say, a heart transplant, had to first design and build the hospital, design and manufacture their equipment, disinfect the operating room, launder the sheets, transport the patient, make sure the post-op room was clean and waiting and then farm and prepare their meals during their recovery? Every job is an important piece of the whole picture.
If we stop to think about all of the people who are involved in everything we do in our daily lives, it’s easy to feel a sense of gratitude.
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Reminders come and go.
Some are simple and casual.
Some are devastating, tragic, sudden.
What we do with them to a large extent, determines our ability to live with peace and contentment.
Fear is attachment to things, people, and outcomes.
Waking up to this and living like we mean it helps us accept the uncontrollables in life.
This is key to being a thriver versus a survivor.
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Sitting here in Saskatoon’s Hotel Bessborough stumbled upon this short Steve Jobs video speech.
It begs us to watch even though we don’t have time…
Peace and contentment come from one place.
Balance.
The book written for a young child contains the same message as Steve Jobs, but was written without the eminent, fast approaching reality of death.
That’s what makes the book special.
There was no pressure to write it.
None.
And the author added a little more peace and contentment to his life.
This is how it goes.
If Steve Jobs were to say there are no shortcuts, we’d all shake our heads ‘yes’.
When you hear it here instead?
Whatever! Right?
Wishing you peace and contentment immeasurable.
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The past few months, maybe longer, have been working to eliminate these words:
Why?
Either a mystery or a conscious realization these four words are innocently yet completely self-centered.
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