Weekly Wisdom from Karen
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR Edition #wisdom #passion #quotes #consumerism #compassion
Oh my goodness, what a bounty of feel-good self-improvement stories this week!
Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist is a show full of feel-good moments and powerful emotions. If you haven’t seen it yet, I urge you to give it a view as soon as you can, after reading this week’s wisdom.
A good pep talk is sometimes exactly what is needed to restore one’s verve!
This new to the publication and this platform writer, Venturer, gives us such meaningful positivity. Wonderful words of wisdom.
Since you clicked on the title and are reading this, it must mean there is a wish inside of you, something you always wanted to do. Am I right?
Next up and in a similar vein, Noah Nelson, gives it to us straight.
Find your passion.
Until this year I wrote pretty much for free. Just for the sheer passion of writing! Passion for something isn’t just about money though. It’s about the love and joy and exhilaration of creating. Then sharing it with others.
Most of us aren’t living the life we want. We work a dead-end job, hang out with the same unmotivated friends, live the same day over and over again. But it doesn’t have to be like that.
Who knew that if we behaved as water we would be able to go with the flow of life. Esther George takes a Bruce Lee quote and gives us an abundance of ways we need to be like water to live a better life.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
— Bruce Lee
We’re constantly bombarded with the stress of needing to make things happen. We planned ahead for life’s unexpected events. The thought of being in the unknown can be paralyzing. Our minds are not ready to deal with the anxiety, so we do everything we can to avoid or eliminate any cause of uncertainty.
Bear with me on this one from K. B. Cottrill. It does sound a tad on the less than joyful abundance side of life. But K. B.’s message is one of humour and an inspired analogy portrays other possibilities.
That sense of lost opportunities is debilitating. It bubbles up as regret and bitterness and can blunt your appetite for life. If the mindset becomes pervasive, it creates a negative feedback loop. Cynicism sets in, which makes you think twice about the next opportunity and hence more likely to miss it.
Francesco Rizzuto gives us his observations of the uber-rich folk in his family’s neighbourhood. His wisdom makes good sense. Especially credit cards. Chop them up and pay them off. I particularly liked this line:
Automobiles are not investments. They’re consumer goods.
I grew up in a relatively comfortable, upper-class American environment, but it was mostly posturing and theatre. We never had enough money although it looked like we had too much. Here’s how we did it.
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Here’s a little reminder from Jean Campbell, to be kinder to ourselves.
I’m sending this to you from a loving place because you deserve care and compassion and consideration all the time — but especially when you’re worn out. And sometimes that happens without warning and it’s nobody’s fault, certainly not yours.
Thank you for reading.
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