Category: Rethink

The difference between these two makes all the difference

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Questions and answers are different yet related – same with happiness and gratitude

 

It would seem there’s a difference between happy and grateful. A difference that makes all the difference.

The difference between these two makes all the difference:

  1. Happiness
  2. Gratitude

We can be grateful all the time (no exceptions).

This has a contagious side effect though – happiness.

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People talk about ‘living in the moment’. This is it.

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What if we could teach children in such a way that the offerings here would be completely opposite

 

What would being a midlife mystic feel like?

  • never having an insignificant day
  • finding joy in the mundane
  • finding honor in the mundane
  • keeping expectations sparse, simple, and low
  • being lean

People talk about ‘living in the moment’. This is it.

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Hat tip to the midlife zealot?

Jesus on the Cross inside Catholic Church
Thank goodness for the misfits, the outliers, and the crazy ones

 

Midlife zealot?

There’s a negative connotation and a positive one.

It’s up to us to decide.

And our choice frames everything else in our life – for the rest of our life.

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Dare to think unthinkable mental thoughts

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When you work someplace for 30+ years, it defines who you are as a person in many ways.

 

Thinking differently can get us in trouble.

It’s not a way to fit in, generally speaking.

And folks who seem ridiculously happy are suspect.

Let ’em wonder.

Go. Be you. Think unthinkable, amazing thoughts.

Note: “Getting ourselves in trouble” either feels scary or exciting.

And getting in trouble doesn’t mean legally, it means pushing traditional boundaries.

Pushing and pulling for the good of society.

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