“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
One the best things when I was a kid was to go down to the local used books store with my weekly allowance in hand.
I’d buy all kinds of things. Among them my favorite monthly comic book that collected all these odd and hilarious comics from all around the world.
And one of them was Calvin and Hobbes. I didn’t always understand it, Calvin and Hobbes had strange and serious thoughts mixed in with the crazy and imaginative adventures of the small boy and his best friend.
I still return to their adventures from time to time.
And the things I didn’t quite understand back then make more sense today.
So this week I’d like to share 5 of my favorite thought-provoking, witty and happifying tips from Calvin and Hobbes.
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
Happiness in life can come from many things.
From how meaningful you find your work to be. From a hobby you can get lost in for hours. Or from just being with the natural world around you and appreciating the warming spring rays of sun.
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” Sydney J. Harris
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Bertrand Russell
The most important thing for me to manage during my workday and workweek is not my time but my energy.
Why?
Self-kindness. When I tried to use my time in the most effective way it worked for a short while. But then my energy simply ran out and I felt stressed and it didn’t matter too much if I had freed up some extra time because I didn’t have the energy to use that time in a good way anyway.
I get more of the most important things done in a better way. When I manage my energy in a smart way I get more of the absolutely most important things done and my work is of higher quality.
Today I’d like to share three mistakes I have made – and think are quite common – that have certainly sucked a lot of extra and unnecessary energy out of me in the past.
The most popular promotions I have done in the last few years have been for the free Ultimate You Mindfest. Over 3000 Positivity Blog / Positivity Newsletter readers have signed up for it in the past three years and listened to the guided meditations called Paraliminals.
So I wanted to let you know that Learning Strategies is having another Mindfest that starts now on Monday, the 1:st of December. And it is a sort of a follow up to the popular Paraliminals program mentioned above.
It is called The Sonic Access Mindfest and each day for 4 days you’ll be able to stream a new Paraliminal. And you get access to the Goal Setting Paraliminal as soon as you have signed up.
The topics for this Mindfest and the recordings are success, health, relationships and spiritual growth.
We all face tough days or times. It’s a part of life.
But how you react, think and act during these tough times makes a big difference. With a helpful set of habits the outlook on life can change in a huge and remarkable way. I know from experience, I was a big, die-hard pessimist years ago.
So this week I’d like to simply share five of my favorite timeless tips on optimism. Fundamentals that the wise people that came before us have lived by for hundreds and thousands of years.
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
