When New Year comes
around, I try to choose few words which I want to make my new year resolution;
however rather than waiting to start those on new years day, it is even better
if you can make them your habit by then.
For this year, Happiness is on top of my list, and so I thought, doing Shawn Anchor's 5
Ways to Turn Happiness Into An Advantage was a perfect
opportunity. I recruited a friend to do this small challenge with me. We will
do our own things, but having a motivator is always helpful (going forward if
it is not private and if it is worth sharing I will blog about it, otherwise, I
will be keeping it on my note pad for the next 21 days).
Click the links above to
learn in details how it works, but here is the short explanation of how it
works.
1. Everyday, we are to
write 3 things that we are grateful for.
2. Journal one positive
experience that we had with in the past 24 hours (spend writing at least 2
minutes.
3. One act of kindnesa
4. At least 10 minutes of
exercise and
5. 2 minutes of
meditation.
So here it begins. The 3 things that I am grateful for today
are:
1. I woke up and when I thought of my act of kindness, it
made me happy. Because it was a great reminder on how wonderful some people are
and how their influence on you grows over time.
2. I walked outside and during this winter season, the
weather was so amazingly nice that, I decided to change and go running through
the woods for a while.
3. I was interpreting for about an hour and half this
morning and, interpretation is one of those things that allow you to experience
what Roman Krznaric calls, The Power Empathy a way to place yourself in the shoe of others and attempt to
see the word through their eyes, because when you are interpreting you are
trying to explain things as accurately as you can of what is being said
regardless of what you know and what you think. It gives you a sense of how
others process information in their head.
JOURNAL: I work for an organization that saves lives. Literally. And I think my job is so rewarding. Extremely
diverse office, if you walk into our office, I bet if you care to count, in one
day you probably can count over 30 languages. Amongst many one of things I do
is, I sit with clients and I ask them their short and long term goals. Some
people have never thought about their long-term goals in the sense that most of
us (us = most of you reading this). You can ask, what can you envision yourself
possibly doing in 5 years and some people just never considered that thought?
They feel intimidate to even suggest that they can rise up to some of their
desires. This makes me feel so privileged for the fact that I have this sense
of feeling and confidence I can be what ever I want to be. Not everyone feels that
way. When I push them further and try to get a sense of what they are fond
of…they say well it would be nice to be….a nurse (just an exa.) and let go a
light hearted smile that just glows on their face when they imagine about it.
Every time I get to see that from a client it inspires me, reminds me of my
privileged, and makes me feel humble.
While I am at it, I thought I share, my office is doing this
fundraising which you can find here and we are only $1K short of our goal, feel appreciated to drop in your
blessings.
Be happy and success will follow.
Cheers,
Daniel
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