Why do we always fool ourselves into thinking that we never have enough? The culture we're in reinforces every day that we are never thin, rich, smart, accomplished, and good enough. We're taught to always want more, which in some ways isn't a bad thing. However, we're not just taught to strive, the world we live in teaches us daily not just to want more, but that we're not good enough until we get or accomplish more. This creates an impossible paradigm in which many people push themselves throughout their lives to accomplish the next thing, hoping that it will bring happiness, only to get there and identify something new that they must make happen in order for happiness to be in there grasp.
I have fallen in this trap often, as I'm sure many have. I've come to realize that if you don't force yourself to make very intentional choices of how to want to live your life, you end up going with the flow and not realizing often that the values you're living out aren't really consistent with the values you hold.
I, today, can say that I live a live of abundance and am grateful for all (or at least most) of ways that my life is abundant. The days I see something on the internet or in a store and think "I want that," or the times that I feel like there's never enough time to get everything done, I try to feel the coin above (and below) that I carry in my pocket. Remembering how abundant my life is reminds me that I need very little in my life and helps me to remember to really intentionally spend some time every day thinking about the things in my life I'm grateful for.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote, "Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." I think that is so true. I think the problem for our world today is that many people don't even stop to think about or realize what they enjoy. We're always too busy going on to the next thing.
Bryant McGill wrote "Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive." When I let go of the 'should's' and realize that I really am enough, today the way I am, I free myself up to be open to realizing the abundance around me.
I choose to recognize the beauty and abundance that is everywhere - the joy I get from spending time with my family, growing things, playing and listening to music, driving on a country road on a sunny day, helping people struggle to find their truth and make changes in their life, watching the chicks scratch and eat, playing with the dogs, cooking great food, taking photographs, building things, looking at a starry sky, reading a great book, sitting in my backyard, and walking across the campus of the college where I work, just to name a few. The truth is there really is abundance in everything under the sun.
Challenge yourself to spend time everyday recognizing the abundance in your life. Where is your life abundant?
Why do we always fool ourselves into thinking that we never have enough? The culture we're in reinforces every day that we are never thin, rich, smart, accomplished, and good enough. We're taught to always want more, which in some ways isn't a bad thing. However, we're not just taught to strive, the world we live in teaches us daily not just to want more, but that we're not good enough until we get or accomplish more. This creates an impossible paradigm in which many people push themselves throughout their lives to accomplish the next thing, hoping that it will bring happiness, only to get there and identify something new that they must make happen in order for happiness to be in there grasp.
I have fallen in this trap often, as I'm sure many have. I've come to realize that if you don't force yourself to make very intentional choices of how to want to live your life, you end up going with the flow and not realizing often that the values you're living out aren't really consistent with the values you hold.
I, today, can say that I live a live of abundance and am grateful for all (or at least most) of ways that my life is abundant. The days I see something on the internet or in a store and think "I want that," or the times that I feel like there's never enough time to get everything done, I try to feel the coin above (and below) that I carry in my pocket. Remembering how abundant my life is reminds me that I need very little in my life and helps me to remember to really intentionally spend some time every day thinking about the things in my life I'm grateful for.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote, "Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." I think that is so true. I think the problem for our world today is that many people don't even stop to think about or realize what they enjoy. We're always too busy going on to the next thing.
Bryant McGill wrote "Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive." When I let go of the 'should's' and realize that I really am enough, today the way I am, I free myself up to be open to realizing the abundance around me.
I choose to recognize the beauty and abundance that is everywhere - the joy I get from spending time with my family, growing things, playing and listening to music, driving on a country road on a sunny day, helping people struggle to find their truth and make changes in their life, watching the chicks scratch and eat, playing with the dogs, cooking great food, taking photographs, building things, looking at a starry sky, reading a great book, sitting in my backyard, and walking across the campus of the college where I work, just to name a few. The truth is there really is abundance in everything under the sun.
Challenge yourself to spend time everyday recognizing the abundance in your life. Where is your life abundant?
Why do we always fool ourselves into thinking that we never have enough? The culture we're in reinforces every day that we are never thin, rich, smart, accomplished, and good enough. We're taught to always want more, which in some ways isn't a bad thing. However, we're not just taught to strive, the world we live in teaches us daily not just to want more, but that we're not good enough until we get or accomplish more. This creates an impossible paradigm in which many people push themselves throughout their lives to accomplish the next thing, hoping that it will bring happiness, only to get there and identify something new that they must make happen in order for happiness to be in there grasp.
I have fallen in this trap often, as I'm sure many have. I've come to realize that if you don't force yourself to make very intentional choices of how to want to live your life, you end up going with the flow and not realizing often that the values you're living out aren't really consistent with the values you hold.
I, today, can say that I live a live of abundance and am grateful for all (or at least most) of ways that my life is abundant. The days I see something on the internet or in a store and think "I want that," or the times that I feel like there's never enough time to get everything done, I try to feel the coin above (and below) that I carry in my pocket. Remembering how abundant my life is reminds me that I need very little in my life and helps me to remember to really intentionally spend some time every day thinking about the things in my life I'm grateful for.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote, "Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." I think that is so true. I think the problem for our world today is that many people don't even stop to think about or realize what they enjoy. We're always too busy going on to the next thing.
Bryant McGill wrote "Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive." When I let go of the 'should's' and realize that I really am enough, today the way I am, I free myself up to be open to realizing the abundance around me.
I choose to recognize the beauty and abundance that is everywhere - the joy I get from spending time with my family, growing things, playing and listening to music, driving on a country road on a sunny day, helping people struggle to find their truth and make changes in their life, watching the chicks scratch and eat, playing with the dogs, cooking great food, taking photographs, building things, looking at a starry sky, reading a great book, sitting in my backyard, and walking across the campus of the college where I work, just to name a few. The truth is there really is abundance in everything under the sun.
Challenge yourself to spend time everyday recognizing the abundance in your life. Where is your life abundant?
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