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What Makes You Bubble Over with Joy?
Not much time to blog today. It’s not usually a blog day but I wanted to hop in and ask a question. What gives you “bubbling” joy? I had what I guess you could call an “epiphany” today, while reading my Activating Joy book by Jessica Hurtado in my morning devotional. Many times I’ve made a list of what makes me happy. I had never really thought about what causes me to be “bubbled over” in happiness. So it was fun thinking of what those things are. Here’s the first few that came to mind. I would love to hear yours. Seeing my Grandson Seeing family I don’t get to…
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Fifteen Ways to Improve Your Mood and Help Lift Depression
Oh ya’ll. Yesterday, although it started off with me in a – let’s just say – “not so upbeat of a mood, although trying”, I ended up the day knowing that things would be better. I got up this morning and after having a day off and another good night’s sleep, I feel fairly normal this morning. I woke up thinking, planning, wanting to do things, and with a happier disposition (one can hope). When you are a melancholy introvert of a person most of the time anyway and you start to head toward depressive tendencies – it’s just not so good. I have even been able to make a…
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Finding Ways to Deal with Pet Peeves
As in inward look to myself, and in trying to understand some of my triggers that can make my world go south in a heartbeat, I made a list of my pet peeves. Pet Peeves will never permanently go away, so if we can find ways to deal with them and turn the negative thoughts away quickly, it can give us a better outlook and a happier day when they occur or present themselves. These are usually things outside of our control that we wish we could control that bring annoyance. Here’s mine. Can you identify with any of these? I’m sure there are more if I sat and thought…
