Now that I have made a commitment to something positive and life-affirming, it seems that the world is against me. That may not be true, but it sure feels that way. Is there really more negativity and problems surrounding me or am I just hyper-sensitive to anything that is not positive in nature? Maybe my joyful nature is rubbing people wrong and they are responding mean-spiritedly with sarcasm and anger. Perhaps, as I strive to be happy, I am overly conscience of anything negative. Not sure of the reason, but I know that I am sensing an increased amount of negativity and am determined to rise above the clouds and storms around me. I am allowing people to feel what they feel, act how they want to act while I look for my center and hold on to my joy. In fact, tonight I called a friend to tell her of a situation that slapped me in the face this evening and she shared that her household has a saying: Don’t let anyone steal your joy. I will not steal her joy but have definitely pilfered her saying. Although in my quest for positivity, I reworded it slightly: Allow no one to steal your joy.
One of the inspirations for this manifestation project and my blog was the book “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin. Happiness is so ethereal, it seems unattainable. Her book breaks down the feeling and causes of happiness in charts and lists devised from hours and hours of research. Rather than taking the magic out of happiness for me, her didactic approach to such a lofty ideal made it more real to me, more graspable and with that I was able to think of Manifesting Mount Dora as something I can accomplish. She also gave writing a human touch that seeded the confidence I needed to start pounding away at my keyboard in a way I have not been able to do in years. Gretchen was already a published author when she took up the happiness cause. In her year’s experiment to be happy, she expanded her writing to include blogging and inspired me to try the same. I highly recommend the book to anyone, no matter how happy you may already consider yourself. She inspires you to study your life in minute detail, identifying that which is not quite happy enough and creating ways to infuse more happiness into even the most everyday tasks.
The Law of Attraction is all about happiness and it’s all a process. That is important - it is a process. It is a learning and growing experience, not just a wanting and getting experience. It is about who I am and who I want to be, not just about who I think I can be if I obtain this or that or something else. For you, it may not entail charts and research, but it should spur soul-searching, self-evaluation and personal growth.
I survived this evening, smiling most of the time in spite of the rough seas around me. I allowed no one to steal my joy and that is my goal for this experience of Manifesting Mount Dora.
(Thanks, Cheryl!)
One of the inspirations for this manifestation project and my blog was the book “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin. Happiness is so ethereal, it seems unattainable. Her book breaks down the feeling and causes of happiness in charts and lists devised from hours and hours of research. Rather than taking the magic out of happiness for me, her didactic approach to such a lofty ideal made it more real to me, more graspable and with that I was able to think of Manifesting Mount Dora as something I can accomplish. She also gave writing a human touch that seeded the confidence I needed to start pounding away at my keyboard in a way I have not been able to do in years. Gretchen was already a published author when she took up the happiness cause. In her year’s experiment to be happy, she expanded her writing to include blogging and inspired me to try the same. I highly recommend the book to anyone, no matter how happy you may already consider yourself. She inspires you to study your life in minute detail, identifying that which is not quite happy enough and creating ways to infuse more happiness into even the most everyday tasks.
The Law of Attraction is all about happiness and it’s all a process. That is important - it is a process. It is a learning and growing experience, not just a wanting and getting experience. It is about who I am and who I want to be, not just about who I think I can be if I obtain this or that or something else. For you, it may not entail charts and research, but it should spur soul-searching, self-evaluation and personal growth.
I survived this evening, smiling most of the time in spite of the rough seas around me. I allowed no one to steal my joy and that is my goal for this experience of Manifesting Mount Dora.
(Thanks, Cheryl!)
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