Do you choose to live a life or a living?

Life is full of choices. You are given the free will to make your own choices. Your choices affect how your life unfolds.

Of course for our own well-being, we all need a safe and comfortable place to live, food on the table and clothes to wear. Once you have those, what choices do you make on where to spend your time and energy?

Do you choose the extra overtime for the cash? Or perhaps to do those evening emails to help you climb the corporate greasy pole?

Are you choosing to live a life or a living?

What is your state of being?;

• reacting to life as it comes
• consciously choosing how you want to spend your life.

Humans natural state is joy

How much joy have your choices brought into you life? I hope it’s lots! But for many this is not the case. Life has become all about making money, just getting through another day….

When I was in a busy corporate life, I came home to my young daughter in her pink pyjamas wearing her pink wellington boots and holding a highly coloured watering can her grandparents had bought her that day. She was waiting for me to use her beautiful watering can she was so proud of.

Still in my business suit, we went into the garden together and watered my daughter’s flowers.

I felt real joy and it is one of my happiest memories of my daughter’s childhood. I experienced more joy in those 10 minutes than perhaps in my whole week. I still remember the experience vividly 30 years later.

When you feel joy it radiates from you and affects those around you. They feel uplifted in their lives too. In a state of joy, you experience a feeling of peace.

Join me in this reflection to remember your joy and experience it again.

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