Daily Happiness Journal

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Daily Happiness Email #10 April 23rd 2020

I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you. In this email:

Food for thought: Anxiety
Picture of the day: Happiness Is Cherry Blossoms
Daily Funny: Droid
Daily Happiness: Strawberries on the beach
Daily Quote about picnics

Thought for the day

Anxiety

“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”

― Arthur Roche

This is so true. Often we have one thing to worry about and a dozen that are going well. And what do we do? We concentrate of thinking about the worrisome thing, and eventually it is all we see. All the good things in life vanish from our minds because our mind can only concentrate on one thing at a time. And a thought we keep thinking tends to turn into what we perceive as truth. Suddenly that one worrisome thing has turned our whole world into a its likeness. Nothing feels good anymore. And getting out of that spiral of negative feelings takes some doing… So do yourself a favour and concentrate on the good things too. Take the habit of writing done one good thing that happened in your day. Every day. Use a notebook, your calendar, your mobile phone. Anything. Just write it down. And read later what you have written. You’d be surprised to see how many wonderful, joyful things you have in your life. It’s just a question of learning to notice them.

Picture of the day

Write down the positive things in your day, and let them lift your spirits

Happiness Is Cherry Blossoms

I thought maybe people would like to see some drawings for a change. So I created this little happy character. As you may have noticed from my previous emails, spring has arrived here and I especially like the beauty of cherry trees in full bloom. So no surprise they made it into this little picture as well 🙂

Daily Funny

Droid

What do you call a droid that takes the long way around?

R2 detour.

Do you have a funny story you would like to see published in this letter? An event, what someone said? If so, send me your funny story in an email

(I especially love the funny things children say!).

My email for this is daily email is

happinessjournal@yahoo.com

Today’s Happiness

Strawberries on the beach

We went to the seaside for a picnic today – the first really warm spring day, and we could safely sit on the beach, alone. Sitting in the warm sun. listening to the waves and eating sushi and strawberries… Definitely something to write about in my Happiness Journal.

What made you happy today? Send a note and tell, if you wish to share your little happy moment with others.

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Daily Quote

“You bring your own weather to the picnic.”

(I tried to find who said this originally, but there were several candidates so I did not know whom to choose.)

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I hope this little email will uplift and encourage you to see the good things all around you. In this email:

Food for thought: Water under the bridge
Picture of the day: Happiness journal / Water Under the Bridge
Daily Funny: A Joke for the Boss
Daily Happiness: 80’s music
Daily Quote about limitations


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Water Under the Bridge

“A boy, long time ago, leaned against the railing of a bridge and watched the current of the river below. A log, a bit of driftwood, a chip floated past. Again the surface of the river was smooth. But always, as it had for a hundred, perhaps a thousand, perhaps a million years, the water slipped by, under the bridge. Sometimes the current went more swiftly, and again quite slowly. But always the river flowed on under the bridge.

Watching the river that day the boy made a discovery. It was not the discovery of a material thing, something he might put his hand upon. He could not even see it. He had discovered an idea. Quite suddenly, yet quietly, he knew that everything in his life would someday pass under the bridge and be gone, like water. And the boy came to like those words “under the bridge”. All his life thereafter the idea served him well and carried him through, although there were days and ways that were dark and not easy. Always, when he had made a mistake that couldn’t be helped, or lost something that would never come again, the boy, now a man, said, “It’s water under the bridge.” And he didn’t worry unduly about the mistakes after that and he certainly didn’t let them get him down – because it was “water under the bridge”. “

– N.V. Peale

Picture of the day

Because of the thought for today, this picture was the only logical choice.

This little bridge is quite near where we live, and we often walk in the woods and cross the little stream using this bridge.

Perhaps you could write down the things floating in your river on the left hand side of the notebook, and then later on the right hand side what good came out of it?

Happiness Journal / Water Under the Bridge products