Enjoy every minute of it. We must be present and focused as it is a rare delight.
We don’t know how many days we have left on this spinning globe so it’s best we squeeze every ounce of joy out of our moments together.
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Category: Gratitude
Relaxing
Find your favourite ways of relaxing. Train yourself to enjoy them daily.
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Playfulness
This is a fabulous personal characteristic to develop.
It’s a great skill to have. Your spouse will appreciate it, as will your children. As your parents age, they’ll appreciate it more as well.
Develop this skill as soon as you can and continue to build on it through the years.
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Enjoy The Passage Of Time
That may be the best description of life’s purpose.
I heard Jimmy Carr say this recently. If that was all you did your whole life, you’d probably be one of the happiest people on the planet.
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Challenge Your Current Identity
Being honest with yourself, what are your current core attributes? Are you athletic? Do you think you’re great with numbers? Would you describe your current self as slim, solid, or obese? Are you funny?
Write down 10-15 descriptive words about your current self. Then, write down 10-15 words you would prefer to be known by. Post these words by your bed. Read them out several times per day.
Keep reading them out several times per day. Notice which words make you flinch or cringe. Then dig down deep into why that is. Figure out how to make future you acceptable to your consciousness.
Enjoy your daily transformation!
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More Than Enough
When do people realise they have more than enough? If they didn’t waste so much on luxury items, trips, gambling and other non-investment activities, they could retire in peace. Maybe they could do it earlier than they ever considered.
Sit down with pen and paper and get your thoughts churning. Review your income, your savings, pension and investments. Look out 20, 30 and 40 years and see what you could have if you focused.
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Read
Read books, magazines, cereal boxes, newspapers and maps.
Develop the habit of reading. Learn to enjoy it. Non-fiction or fiction. Take your pick.
Learn things and exercise your brain.
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Best Time?
Was 1920-2000 the best 80 years in history to be alive? One may be able to make an argument for it.
The greatest wealth increase per capita seemed to happen in this period. There were huge social changes and great technological changes too. Voting rights and laws were improved. The tv, radio, airplane, medicine, peace, and the internet all became ubiquitous in this time. So did indoor plumbing and electricity!
There was no 24/7 information access. There was no AI. Jobs and houses were easier to come by in that era.
Perhaps this century is an even better time?! It depends how you look at it.
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Down Time
Enjoy a bit of time all too yourself. Be sure to carve it out and hold that time in your day. Otherwise, you’ll work, sort out kids, parents, friends, do admin, side hustle, charity work and that Board you’re on and forget, or run out of time, for you.
Guard your down time!
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Pause And Think
Look around you. Have you ever marvelled at the incredible system our bodies are? Maybe you’ve thought it is rather amazing how every day you can turn on your tap and fresh drinking water comes out in abundance.
Waking up in itself is an incredible thing. All your blood is moving around and your heart didn’t skip a beat. It’s so wild.
Spend five minutes today in awe of how many millions of things must go well for you to enjoy your day of health, food ingestion and driving a car. Amazing!
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