2024- Week 29 - Life’s Simple Pleasures!

Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

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2024 - Week 29 - Life’s Simple Pleasures!

This is another episode about life’s simple pleasures!

Life’s Simple Pleasures!

Life is a journey. A trip. A deck of cards. Life defies a single definition because moment by moment, life changes. Life is different for each person every moment. Just as life changes, we change and grow based on our experiences. Treat yourself to something because you met a goal – celebrate!

Life simply is. Being alive is cause for celebration! Take a moment to think of a reason to celebrate. Treat yourself to something because you met a goal – celebrate! Perhaps you didn’t use your cell phone when you were having a meal. CELEBRATE!

Every day find reasons to be grateful for life and celebrate! Sometimes it’s just as simple as not

beating yourself up about something you did. Now that is cause for a major celebration.

Practice: Think about the music you’ve listened to, the movies you’ve seen, the friends in your life and how they may have changed over the years. Treat yourself to something you enjoy. You deserve it.

Affirmation: I celebrate life and I am grateful for all my life experiences.

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I hope you enjoyed the Embrace Change excerpt from my book/eBook/audiobook, Why Struggle? Life is too short to wear tight shoes.

In my mid-year review episode, week 26, I mentioned M.E.E.T. - Money. Energy. Effort. Time. It's one of the ways I decide what I am willing to commit to. How much money, energy, effort and/or time will ____ take? It really helps me prioritize at this time in my life. In my mind, I love to think I’m going to become fluent in Spanish… Am I willing to commit the time, energy, & effort it takes? Nope. I can play around and understand Spanish better than I speak it. How bout taking a guitar class, since I was gifted a guitar over 20 years ago from a friend who was moving? Again, what money, energy, effort and time will I devote to learning to play? Maybe another time, right now, not so much.

Feeling grateful to find my missing wallet behind my seat pad on the passenger seat in my car, receiving ole’ fashioned tea cakes from one of my senior computer students and enjoying a meal at the Flying Biscuit with one of my dear friends are lovely memories to celebrate!

TD, my hubby, had a birthday over the weekend so we enjoyed a lovely meal at a restaurant in Fayetteville and the waiter sang happy birthday in Lebanese. On Sunday, our youngest son, Dewayne, who is 20, treated us to a birthday breakfast. As we waited on the food, he and his dad talked “shop” - they were looking over pictures from a job site - they both are doing electrical work, at different places. I enjoyed watching them and truly felt joy and appreciation at such a simple pleasure.

Indeed, I celebrate life and I am grateful for all my life experiences. What’s something you are grateful for right now?

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