The Joy of Not Getting What You Want
How mundane it would be, if everything you wanted just popped into your life, with ease, every time. I often write articles about how we don’t need anything to be a particular way, for us to experience happiness. There aren’t a binary set of conditions that if we had, we’d feel good all the time. …
Can’t get no satisfaction?
Here’s a question for you to consider, hand on heart. Are you seeking satisfaction anywhere in your life? In your work, your relationships, family, social life, with your body, your health? Anywhere at all? Do want to tweak, change and improve certain areas, believing that you’ll be happier when you do? How’s that working out…
Living the alternative dream
Your life could feel like a dream. Everything unfolding one thing after another, in a way that makes a sort of sense as you observe it. You could find yourself looking upon the circumstances that present themselves without judging them as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Perhaps the odd sharp word you hear, directed towards you, could…
Calling out the ego
Not a day goes by when there isn’t fodder available for the ego to reinforce itself with. Whether that’s in the form of apparently inspiring quotations about what we can achieve. In references made which connect certain events with certain feelings, as if there is a direct causal link. Whether it’s in a conversation…