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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis came across my computer from Insight of the Day today:
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There’s enough information on those subjects to keep […]
How does your garden grow?
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI love gardens and beautiful flowers, but I have a black thumb when it comes to outdoors. I can manage violets and some other indoor plants, but outside is a complete bust. I also don’t do well in heat, so there you have it, I’m not going to spend time outside once it […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is a good reminder for me. When I’m having a hard day, it is sometimes difficult to rise above it, but I never give in.
How about you, what do you do when a day is rough?
Karin
Here is your Friday story,
The Perspective Song
One day, not long ago, I decided to re-send the attitude-changing philosophy […]
Keeping score in life
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis quote came across my computer this morning, and it got me to thinking about how we keep score(s) in life.
Money is a way of keeping score in life, says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis gives a whole new definition to vision and sight. I find it inspiring.
Karin
How we get through hard times
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis quote came across my computer today:
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 1767-1835, German Statesman
I have to say I don’t totally agree with this. […]
27 dresses
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comCollege Girl and I went to see this movie tonight. The theater was packed at 8:15, loads of adults of all ages, no kids.
We liked it. Yes, it’s predictable, but it isn’t just one star, the way the reviewer gave it in our paper. Katherine Heigl has a face you love to […]
Fukoji Bells on New Year’s Eve
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comA friend posted this on another list. It was the first time I’d heard of it. I am touched by it on a variety of levels. There’s something to be said for having a community custom where all who wish are involved.
Happy New Year to all! May yours be […]
More good news
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI was so happy to see the father and his children saved, after being lost in the snow.
On another front: a friend’s husband is getter better by the day after not being able to work for several weeks. Doctors had not been able to help him. This turn around came, […]
Christmas wreaths at Arlington
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comIn the midst of all the negative things we hear, here is something worth hearing about.
You will find pictures, story, and a youttube video. It’s nice to see honor where it is due.
Karin
Of fortune cookies and adoption and life
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comYesterday, after dinner, I gave my fortune cookie to my youngest, very nearly age 10, but told her I wanted the fortune.
She handed it to me, saying it was a really good one.
Yes, it was, fraught with responsibility, but definitely a keeper:
God will give you everything that you want.
Yikes. Of course, I know that […]
The Machine is Us/ing Us
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis sure says a lot in 4 minutes. Very clever. Also true.
Karin
Powerful quote
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI thought this quote had both teeth and power. So often when unfortunate things happen folks say the latter phrase which is hardly helpful.
Karin
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist […]
A good insult
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis was an Internet forward, but the cleverness of some of these was worth passing along. I did not check out every author to see if they were the real source. I know I always appreciate a quote from George Bernard Shaw and Gertrude Stein.
Karin
Ahh, a good insult is like . . . […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI have a special spot in my heart for military chaplains since I once knew a fellow who became a chaplain after we lost touch with each other. But knowing that their jobs can be as dangerous as a soldier’s has kept me connected to articles about them through the years.
This article talks about […]
How irritable are you on any given day?
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWhat’s your irritation quotient? Do you find yourself with a constant underlying sense of irritation about the little things in life that should only be annoyances? Or does your irritation quotient go up only for select instances? Do you feel this is a function of not voicing some of the things that […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWe had some really cute costumes here. The little boys especially were adorable. One little fellow said he was Jack Sparrow. He was just the cutest thing. One little girl was so cute — she said she was a mermaid. A neighbor went as Harry Potter and his mother as […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comHave you ever tried a Honeycrisp apple? I had never heard of them until visiting a friend in Michigan recently. I don’t think I’ve ever had a better apple.
They can be ordered online, but I haven’t done it yet.
I used to eat Delicious apples, but they are a little soft to me now. […]
Taking advantage of the minutes
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comYesterday I drove to a nearby town (well an hour or so away) and took advantage of the drive. It makes the drive worthwhile. Additionally, I came back with just enough daylight that I could still see the area, even if shrouded in twilight.
Part of the way goes past (if I choose that […]
Elder role models
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI’m always on the lookout for role models, male or female, who are older than I am. But there’s something about a woman who is living an interesting life that does, in fact, interest me. My life has sure held some interest, and largely because I’ve sought it.
I recently read an article about […]
Making our lives a prayer
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comNorris Burkes had another thought provoking column this week.
Andi Bowsher, author of Praying the Pattern …says , “Paul [when he said to pray without ceasing] was suggesting making life into prayer rather than making prayer into a life.”…I can spend all week praying for fresh inspiration and still get nothing but a frustrated editor muttering […]
Thinking outside the box
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comHere’s another short inspirational movie. Enjoy!
Karin
Comparing the latest Ayala’s perfumes
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comAlaya Moriel is a talented parfumer with a wide selection to choose from. If you are lucky enough to live in her area, you can be included in some of the wonderful things she offers locally, that she is able only to tell us about, those of us who live at a distance.
I have […]
How many X hundred dollar creams can a woman use?
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWhat’s a woman to do when the newest high tech face creams are running several hundred dollars each? And how is one to choose one over another, if one is staving off the knife?
Honestly, are they all worth that kind of money? Chanel, La Prairie, Sheisado, Clea de Peau all have […]
Catching up
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI’ve been out of town, catching up with friends and business. Then it was my birthday. Then, we’ve had visitors who are like family. Did some catching up there too. (I love visitors.) I’ve done some knitting (and gifted some of them). And I’ve done some beading for gifts for […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comSo what can you do to maximize happiness and minimize the opposite?
Some things seem like common sense (not revolutionary):
…the revolutionary idea that true happiness lies in building on our strengths, not rooting out our flaws. Liz Seymour
If I’m going through hard times, I try not to beat myself up over it. That just […]
You can’t send a duck to eagle school
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comHere’s another short inspirational movie from Mac Anderson, Founder, Simple Truths. I loved this one, including the Chinese poem at the end.
Live with Passion!
Quack, quack.
Or fly, if you’re an eagle.
It reminds me of the Ugly Duckling story in some respects. Be the best of who you are. […]
The elusive nature of happiness, part 6
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comH = S + C + V
Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Your Life + Volunteer Activities
The S and C account for …60% of our happiness. “But that still leaves 40% which is really quite a lot.” [Lyubomirsky] Liz Seymour
I’d like to know where they get their percentages. I think there are […]
What a great story of philanthropy
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThe largest single gift to a secondary school has been made to the George School, a Quaker school in PA.
What I find particularly interesting about this is that it is a pay it forward kind of story. Because of being treated well…and then being treated well again…
Never underestimate the power in treating someone […]
Ni hao, Kai-Lan IHappy
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is a great story about a Chinese adoptee who was chosen to be the voice of Kai-lan. Don’t miss the rest of the story.
Hearing what her adoptive mother has been through and seeing the IHappy license plate brought tears to my eyes.
Karin
Jade-Lianna Peters steps into an audio recording booth at I V Media […]
The elusive nature of happiness, part 5
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com…things, whatever their number, contribute surprisingly little — somewhere between 8 and 15% — to our sustained happiness. Variables such as age, education, health, income, personal appearance, and even climate are ineffective at overriding our genetically determined set point.
…external factors have little impact on our level of happiness…our brains…turn out to be amazingly adapable […]
The elusive nature of happiness, part 4
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com[One] You can’t change your genes, but you can tinker with the essential wiring of your brain. Selective serotonin reuptake [this is such an interesting word to me…and has some spiritual parameters, even the next word, ‘inhibitors’] inhibitors, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and others work to prolong the action of serotonin, the brain chemical […]
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI think it’s possible to have a certain level of happiness underlie all of our experiences, the good, the bad or the ugly, if we are aware of them. That’s possibly what is meant by having a set-point for happiness. It’s there, somewhere. I wonder if we can set our set-point higher […]
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