What makes a good life?

     

Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? 

Lessons from the longest study...

Ask a hundred people the same question and and you may get many different answers but at the root of it you may find many similar they just used different words.

Have a listen ...

Dona Anderson

This is a great video about a study taken over many years that connected me to my life and ancestry list of 3rd and 4th cousins from generations of great grandparents and thinking about how they lived day to day and migrating across oceans, mountains and more.  How they found food, survived the cold stayed healthy and kept going to built there lives, family and relationships.

 I guess we're living though one of our generations tough times now. I wonder what they will refer this time to 20 years from now in the history books, and how did it shape the years after.

Are there some things You connected to?

Lots of comments on You tube.

Love his smile.

   

We all want to be happy and healthy yet often we go at it in different ways.

We want friends and family relationships but may not give it the time needed.

I hope this is helpful as we deal with all the stress of this time in our lives that will be for the future to observe.

Sharing his quote, 

"Good Relationships keep us Happy and Healthier Period"

He has some other videos on You Tube with more info.

Take Care.

Are there some things you connect to right away that could be changed?

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PS.   I'll leave you today with the ending of the meditation Living in Wellness from page 133 in my book Moving Forward from the from the heart.© 2015

My wellness is determined by my awareness, my acceptance of change, my relationships, my internal and outward communication, and my knowing that love is all around me and it is there for me to both give and receive.

I celebrate my success. 

Take Care and have a great day and week ahead.

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How many of us have done this ...

Someone is on their way over and you rush around the house like a crazy person to clean it up.

You're intense, focused and no one gets in your way.

You only have a few minutes and ...

YOU DID IT!

The door bell rings and you're all Smiles. 

So what happens all the other days.

                    

Is this you?

                               It's me many times.

We let our self walk around with no real focus and one thing not finished finds us starting another.

A phone call or thought interrupts you and then you head off off in a different direction.

The sock in the living room may travel around the house and be left behind in yet another room.

Where did the morning go - you haven't even had your 2nd coffee or tea yet.

When I used to work

we had routines, daily and weekly chores, exercise times and to do lists to prepare for things but the holidays and long weekends set me up for not getting done in 3 days what I used to do in 2.

While computers make lots of things easier, they create more things to take your time and sometimes it's like watching TV, it's kind of being there, numb or unresponsive until it's time to eat or go to bed.

It takes us longer to get things done these days when you're on hold for hours or waiting for a call back. You need to do more paperwork for your statements, receipts and make online appointments.

More and more things that you have to do and less and less from the providers. 

You're being swamped with advertising, notifications and another hour goes by.

More things seem to build up and the list of things to do gets longer and longer.

Stress builds up, things get missed and on and on ...

What's going on
and do you need a bit of standing up and dusting off to get back into the World again and find out what makes your Heart Sing.

Where can you find HELP.

Let's make 2021 the year to say Enough and

get our life back - some of it at least.

How will you do it?

I know a lot of people are stressed and struggling with all the things that need to get done these days.

It's Something important to talk about and see what can help,

got any ideas - let us know in the comments.

PS - For the Vinyl Cafe lovers in the audience here's
a Christmas story you'll probably remember

No, it's not the one where Dave cooks the Turkey.

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