...there is so much to love. I believe the secret to happiness lies in finding as much to love about our lives as possible. Love for ourselves is as important as love for others. Love for what we do in our daily lives is as important as the love for the things surrounding us. When we love, the object of our love thrives and becomes beautiful. To love means to pay attention, to care for and have an interest in the wellbeing and success of whom or what we love. I have found that I am happiest when I am completely immersed and at full attention to what I am doing - being in the moment so to speak, cliché as it may be it is still true.
The kind of flow one can experience when totally engaged is really such a thrill that it's almost impossible to cut oneself loose from whatever one is doing when experiencing this state of mind. It really is like child's play. The funny thing about this is that I can find this kind of total attention in just about anything I do. Even when I am beginning a task that may not rank super high on my list of things I love to do I still try make every effort to do what I do to the very best of my capabilities.That seems to be the very best strategy to find enjoyment in just about everything we do, not just the things we want to do but also the many things we "have " to do to keep our lives together. A really good system to keep things flowing, besides the absolutely, indisputably wise motto of my king of optimists husband "find something to love about it" is to just relabel a task from from " I have to do this today" to " today I really want to do this". All that's necessary for that shift is to schedule time for a project and then give it all the energy to get it done as well as you can possibly do it. Even the most mundane jobs become something one can actually love to do because , oh dear another cliché! a job done well is not only worth doing but is FUN doing and when you have fun you can LOVE what you are doing. So easy! Everybody should try it.
