At the urging of my friend, Natasha Sinha, I decided to attempt the very interesting blogging challenge created by the A to Z team – Zip Through Autumn. Since I’m already supposed to be blogging every day here, I had zero excuses not to take up this challenge. Zero Excuses Zero Excuses I’m a great…
Creating Rhythm In Daily Life
I’m not a very organized person – not really into lists and the like. I’ll admit that I did try! But I just couldn’t do it. But more recently, I’ve discovered the joy of creating rhythm in daily life. This involves looking into myself a lot more. What do I value? Finding out what makes…
Looking Forward with Joy
Yesterday, I wrote about finding happiness in anticipation and I want to continue this a bit today. Chatting to many bloggers in the recent past, I’ve heard them say that they’ve lost the joy of blogging and that blogging is not what it used to be in the old days. And to a large extent,…
Anticipation Is Free Happiness
“Anticipation is such a valuable source of pleasure,” says Liz Dunn, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, who has studied anticipation and happiness. Dunn and Mike Norton, both social psychologists who wrote the book Happy Money (Amazon affiliate link) say that the period anticipation is free happiness. It doesn’t cost anything…
A Fresh Mindset
There are times when we feel frustrated and feel the need to start over, even feeling that maybe a new job, a new city will bring change. But really what we need is a fresh mindset. A Fresh Mindset As I mentioned yesterday, last month, I spent time regrouping – and in order to do…
Regroup To Move Forward
Over the next 5 days, I’m responding to prompts from the Hope Writers Instagram Challenge and putting the prompts from Kicking In The Wall on hold. Today’s prompt is : Regroup. Regroup To Move Forward In June and July, I felt like I was stuck. Things didn’t seem to be working for me. I felt…