Here are a few things I heard this week. They come from different sources, but they all have to do with flourishing.
A question my oldest daughter heard on some podcast:
If you keep doing your current habits (good and bad), who will you be in a year, 5 years, 10 years?
A statement made by my Uncle Larry:
“If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have started taking care of myself earlier.”
A quote from Mel Robbins podcast interview with her 85 year old mother-in-law.
Listen to the whole thing here.
Mel: “There’s a lot of people around the world that have their health, that have a great family, that have friends around them, and yet they’re miserable.”
Judie: “Well, because they’re expecting something else they don’t have. And there is nothing else. You have what you have, right now at the moment and don’t expect anything more. And I think people live in a lot of disappointment, because they think about what they’d like to have or what their neighbor has or something other than what they have this moment. And that creates distress, because if there’s something out there that you want and you don’t have it, that’s stress in itself.”
Mel: “If you’re not happy and grateful for the things you have now, why on earth do you think you’ll be happy and grateful for the things that you don’t have? You need to learn how to appreciate everything on the way.”
Keep flourishing!