"contentment is not something that accidentally happens to you, it is something you actively decide upon. And you lay hold of it, re-deciding every day that enough is actually plenty."
i don't have the slightest idea where i got this quote.
but i love it.
and i need contentment today.
and peace.
and time {but i'm not going to get that, so i need to be content with that}.
i need to stop focusing on what's frustrating me, and start focusing on Him.
that's really the bottom line.
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i was just thinking about that this morning, and working out something to eventually write outside of my head.
it is such a choice. to a degree. sometimes life hands you utter-overwhelmed pain, but it seems outside of that kind of stress on our ability to choose, it is all up to us to decide whether we'll notice the good or the bad. (luckily our brains are actually structured to remember less bad than good, which is cool.) but yeah, i was thinking about times i've had less, and times i've had more. and it seems like the times i've had more are the times i spent so much time sifting through everything i had that it took me too long to notice all the good. but the times i'm balancing the mere ingredients of life are the times i feel most full. more ingredients, less products. i don't know. just my head this morning as i tried to dissect my contentment of late.
i don't know if that makes sense. that's why it's still going to be in my head for a little while.
or in a comment box somewhere on that thing the kids call the interweb :)
grace and peace to you, courtney. you've got a lot on your plate.
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really?!? our brains are structured to remember less bad than good?? really cool!!
i also am LOVING this quote. it gives me perspective, and a mindset ajustment. perspective is a beautiful thing. A calming, settling, oh-i-can-breathe-after-all, sort of thing.
Such a great quote!! Yes, enough is plenty. Must be actively re-decided every day. So true. Love that. Thanks for sharing it.
yes. the memory mechanism is designed to remember more good, less bad. some think there is a link between depression and a malfunction of the memory mechanism causing it to focus on the bad rather than the good.
and likely causing an overwhelmed feeling that then causes inability to makes decisions, which then perpetuates depression and cycles right back 'round again. so, making choices toward positive memories can sometimes trip this cycle.
the short version..
and that's our neuro lesson for the day :) i've been working on applying these principles this winter :) i think 5 times today i've told myself, "i choose happy. what are the happy-lucky things i am missing as my mind complains about this and that" so, i hear ya. ?
much love.
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