“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Our 2023 Begins
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
- Gautam Buddha
As you may have noticed, I took some time off for the holidays to try to have a better work/life balance and not be super overwhelmed. Thank you so much for letting me do that.
And now it’s 2023!
So, let’s start it off short and sweet as we gear up, okay?
In his class, “Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness and Meaning,” Professor Ramya Ranganathan writes,
“Whatever happens outside, what actually happens is the facts. But the facts by themselves are not processed in our brains. We process them in our own unique subjective ways, inside our minds, and that is the stories that we tell ourselves.”
The stories we tell ourselves matter. How we process and think and create those stories really impact our happiness.
There are different ways that we process that outside information and create that into stories inside our brains. Ranganathan calls these building blocks and I’ll be talking about them in the next couple weeks. So, get ready, okay?
We’re going to have an amazing 2023 together. I’m over here in Maine rooting for you.
Here’s a quick photo that I took about .25 miles from my home yesterday. This area was pretty battered the week before thanks to a storm with 65 mph winds. And now look at it, standing, existing, gorgeous.
I hope you like it, too. I hope you can see yourself in this photo.
