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Why are these questions important to ponder over? Because our mental and emotional wellbeing matters.

While there will always be challenges in this plane of existence, we have more influence on our wellbeing than we often accept.

2. Our wellbeing impacts others.

For sure. One of our guiding mantras in our MEM community is that When mama’s not happy, nobody’s happy!

This goes for fathers too, by the way.

And for spouses. If you are a grumpalump, most likely, your spouse is having a hard time dealing with it!!

3. Our wellbeing frees up emotional and spiritual energies to focus on what...

The foundational theory of positive psychology has spiritual underpinnings: that true happiness and wellbeing comes from living a life of virtue.

[For those who are curious about how this translates into Islamic Spirituality, consider the concept of living with...

What you can be, you must be.

It fuels us and our actions and gives us meaning and purpose in our lives and contributes to our wellbeing in the deepest sense.

When a plant which is healthy and blooming we say it is "flourishing" or thriving and when a business is booming and raking in lots of profit, we say that it is "flourishing." In other words the plant and the business is doing really well, they are thriving.

THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead.

"I will come next Tuesday, " I promised, a little reluctantly, on her third call. Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, "Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The...

It is called The Progress Principle.

While we often imagine how good it feels to achieve a long-term goal or experience a major breakthrough, we need to recognize that these big wins are great—but they are relatively rare and often far into the future.

While working on a large or long term project or goal, it can be challenging to keep motivation constant and to experience a sense of achievement which feels good.

The Progress...

Keller says "Connect today to all your tomorrows. It matters."

How? By connecting this moment to your long term vision.

SO. This is a VERY powerful way (and doable) way to set up success...

As a bonus, your mind will be on your side if the task is as simple as a half-book per week or 20 pages per day, where you might self-sabotage yourself thinking about the huge goal of 50 books over two years or even 25 a year.

So, not surprisingly, people thought he was a bit mad.

Until that is, the British team won it in two years. Oh, and then they won four of the next five races as well!

With results like this, we should probably pay attention to his methods, no?

He did not start by telling them to train harder or go faster. Instead he focused on small areas where they...