This is what my breakfast looks like most days.
It’s beautiful, wouldn’t you agree?
I read a book a long time ago called “Living A Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life.” It is a rather simple and cliche’ book (more like a coffee table book) but it reinforced the love I have of beautiful things in my surroundings.
I have an obsession with dishes, I love fresh flowers in my home, and I spend a small fortune on bedding. I don’t view these things as extravagant or splurges to be enjoyed on occasion and I gladly sacrifice cable television, daily coffee at a coffee shop, impulse purchases at Target and any other expensive, unnecessary, frivolous spending to have these things. I value them; not just because they make me feel good but because they’re a part of health. (My husband would argue there are less expensive ways to create beauty in my surroundings but I’m not so sure;)
We’ve been fooled into believing that beautiful things are for rare occasions and everyday life should be a chore. That is total bullshit! So we’re supposed to love our life about 10% of the time and muddle through the other 90%? No thanks.
Why would you buy beautiful dishes only to use 2-3 times per year on a holiday? Now THAT’S a waste of money.
How great would it be to eat a meal everyday that looked as pretty as a meal out at your favorite restaurant? It’s possible if YOU make it happen.
Think about the times you stay in a nice hotel and never want to leave the bed because the sheets feel so wonderful? Why wouldn’t you want to sleep like that every night? You could.
We have such a short amount of time in this life, why wouldn’t we want everyday to be as enjoyable as possible? We hurry through every day, ignoring the things that make us feel good and look forward to a few days per year, on holidays or vacations to feel our best. What a waste of life.
Creating beautiful space around you is an important part of living an optimally healthy life. Your surroundings can calm you, distract you or even cause you anxiety, yet few people put much thought into this aspect of their health. In fact, most people don’t connect health to these things at all and view them as unnecessary luxuries. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your surroundings impact your health.
Take some time to create peace, calm, joy and beauty into every day of your life.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eml-radio-talking-truth/id1498113483?i=1000558947971
Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
