Self-assembled Happiness
Self-assembled happiness springs forth from being kind without the expectation of anything in return.
Reid Walley, May 15, 2022
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Self-assembled happiness springs forth from being kind without the expectation of anything in return.
Reid Walley, May 15, 2022
In particular: 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried…
At my brother Lance’s 54th birthday party, one of Lance’s friends shared that his parents forced him to go on nature trips with his family, even when all he wanted to do was stay home and play video games. And now, as an adult, he’s happy his parents forced him to go. This topic came…
My Mom never rebounded from her divorce from my Dad, from me and my brother eventually going to live with Dad, from the sale of the family cabin, from the death of her Mom, from the sale of her childhood home. She’s been unhappy since 1971 (the divorce), and it got a little worse with…
Carrie: The other thing I need to work on is “letting things go” in general. Holding on tends to eat me alive because I’m way too sensitive about literally every single thing. Me: Give those things a smile, a deep breath, and a blessing. Then let them go. You don’t need to keep checking in…
Life Coaching: I attended John & Elizabeth Howe’s 50th Wedding Anniversary on December 29, 2007. I mentioned to Elizabeth that I figured their secret to being happily married for 50 years was due to them actually “liking” each other at least 51% of the time. “Oh no,” she corrected me, “it’s at least 75% of…
Life Coaching: “Follow your bliss! If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who…