Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Blessings and best wishes during this season of holy-days that celebrate the return of the sun’s light.
While enjoying heart-warming fellowship and spirit-lifting festivities, allow a few moments to consider: What will bring deep down-sky high happiness in 2022? According to Eleanor Roosevelt:
Be Honest with Yourself
During Kwanzaa [December 26 through January 1], participants can prepare for a more satisfying year by answering these questions, truthfully:
- Who am I?
- Am I really who I am?
- Am I all I ought to be?
Because accuracy in answering is essential, Tony Robbin’s team offers these “Signs That You Need to be Honest with Yourself.” If something feels “off” in your life, if passion is fading in important relationships, if you’re not excited about your career or feel busy but not productive, you may need to be straighter and more straightforward with yourself. See five ways.
If you find you work a job you dislike, hate, or tolerate, you lack control over your time and/or your mental, physical, and spiritual health and could use a tune-up here are guides for facing facts::
- Mind Café’s “Liberate yourself by telling yourself the truth.”
- GoodTherapy‘s “Live Your Truth”
- And PsychCentral suggests: Step into other people’s shoes, Accent the positive, Forgive yourself.
Do Your Best
Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements For A Better Life explains:
Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good …
If you have done your best and your inner Judge tries to judge you, you’ve got the answer: “I did my best.” Read More
Here, remember,
If you try to do your best, there is no failure. – Mike Farrell
Loving
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo
Last year, Succeed and Soar published a Love Is series which listed five types:
- The ability to love oneself and be concerned with ones happiness
- An empathetic love that exists in families
- The fondness found in friendships
- Romantic passion, and
- Open-hearted, unconditional and world-embracing spiritual love
To be more loving, WikiHow says,
- Share Your Love by serving others, reflecting on personal mistakes, surrounding yourself with people who are loving, practicing forgiveness and writing down positive experiences [buy a few of Sandra’s Gifts journals].
- Understand Love by letting go of fantasy love, evaluating your behavior and not expecting anything in return.
- Work on You by being more hopeful and growing. Read More.
If I could choose one super power, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!
Betsey Johnson
With Eleanor Roosevelt’s three ingredients for happiness, our individual and collective worlds could become quite bright and delicious. These special days could also help:
- January 26: Day of Goodwill and National Thank You Note Day. Here are sample Thank You notes, including for the worst gifts ever.
- December 27 Fruitcake Day [Okay, so why are the ones I like missing at Costco again this year? Must I do a version of the song-dance “Fancy Like” that got Oreo shakes back at Applebee’s? ]
- December 30 National Resolution Planning Day. Here are guides from Psychology Today
- December 31 National Champagne Day
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Along with thoughts on Eleanor Roosevelt’s statements and a range of topics as vast as the universe, here are books I’ve been reading this month. Nothing to See Here. See Review: Captivated Reading Review. Toms River. See Review: New York Times Review. Born A Crime. See Review: Caprichos Books Review
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