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ENOUGH!

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.  The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.  A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

Quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca, in full Lucius Annaeus Seneca, byname Seneca the Younger, (born c. 4 BCE, Corduba (now Córdoba), Spain—died 65 CE, Rome, Italy), Roman philosopher, statesman, orator, and tragedian. He was Rome’s leading intellectual figure in the mid-1st century CE and was virtual ruler with his friends of the Roman world between 54 and 62, during the first phase of the emperor Nero’s reign. (source: Britannica)

REFLECTION:

  • Are you content?
  • What is ENOUGH?  (materially? physically? emotionally?)
  • Can you be satisfied with what you have without “being on the train for more and more”?

DO IT CONSISTENTLY

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives.  It’s what we do consistently.”

Quote by Tony Robbins

REFLECTION:

  • Examine your habits. Good ones?  Not so good ones?
  • What do you do consistently?  Do they shape your life in a positive way?
  • Do you do things that negatively affect your life? 
  • Do you need to make any habit changes to be more aligned with who you want to BE (the person you say or think you are but upon closer examination, not really living that way)

IT’S HARD

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

REFLECTION:

  • Is there something you are working on that seems hard?
  • Can you stay with it and give it time to shift to easy?
  • Try it.