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Episode 434: A Guide to Recognizing More Moments That Matter by Erica Layne with Becoming Minimalist (Meditation & Mindfulness).
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of optimal living daily. This is optimal living daily episode, four hundred and thirty, four, a guy to recognising more moments. Tat matter by Erika Lane was becoming minimalist, dot com and I'm just a moloch, what's goin on
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recognizing more moments that matter by Erika Lane
is becoming minimal. In Stockholm, we found a circle, crisscross applesauce, with our knees touching making a pen out of our bodies. A pen that contain too
Fluffy is most silky, smooth bunnies. You ve ever seen figures and I sure,
therefore, until one named lily a boy bunny who was clearly named by the little girls who own him hopped. Overall,
eggs and made a break for the rose bushes, his favorite hiding place. It was a chilly but
honey afternoon, a break in back to back storms may happen to be one.
Those rare boatman, valuable instances where I paused and thought this in
The years I mean, I remember the details of our Disney trapper. What toys accuse receive their Christmas, but I might just remember this
laughing with my kids in the grass snapping photos of their smiles. Try not to get pricked by the rose doors when it was time to round off the rabbits. What we miss.
Simple living is about clearing the access, the stuff, the obligations they self imposed expectations, so we have
to notice and subtle onto the moments. Tat make up our lives, but sometimes you're the excess in check
we still managed to miss the moments they give our lives real, color and purpose. I mean surely
various moments, but too often we passed.
Them, as if life is on fast forward. Because of this we derive only a fraction of the joy
though, we could have experience how we just
a little slower. Have we just wrecking
As a moment, in the first place, why we missed him for a dozen reasons, maybe were preoccupied with planning for
Your moments like this, I myself on my laptop booking an epic weekend camp out for the family, while my daughter,
show me her newly masters somersault three times before she finally caught my attention
the irony right, maybe we're
chasing the ideal life we have in our hands a career that is both respectable, am fulfilling a castle wardrobe that lets you look pretty other less than five minutes. Children who turn their homework in on time get
everything right takes a lot of brain power or
We just never train ourselves to look for the moments in the first place. How can I change number one except how
little control you have over the moments? You'll really remember and cherish
is not necessarily the caribbean vacation and might be as simple as planned
the neighbors bunnies on the front line for me, except
This helps me stay more in the present. Is that of always looking towards the future for the next best thing number to open your eyes to beauty
Lee beauty is a gateway to a more satisfying life being a too
the beauty in your physical environment, where there is a flowering tree or well design room or the subtle thinks of a sunset open to go to other kinds of beauty. The pride of a hard day's work.
The joy of an open day on your calendar, the feeling
the small hand in yours. The moment feel twice as
wolden when you're awake to beauty number three embrace play the part
of adulthood tend to take the playfulness out of us, but if you want,
recognize a moment of your life, a sense of humour and playful added
due to our life will take you far quote
nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest man. Roald doll number four develop a solid, consistent, noticing practice think a gratitude practice, but more specific
at the end of each day. Can you take you in one minute to mentally run back over your day and bring it to focus a few small easy to miss moments? That meant something to you.
This Molly heard your mom's voice. When you called ask, if you can stop by the Daphne
set your sons, her line and the readiness of his cheeks when he came in from playing outside the sound of your spouse. Pulling the trash been so you don't have to
shot him down in general, put a voice to them. When you pray or post a photo instagram,
do irregularly, and this will become your noticing practice. Number five protect yourself from burn out
I can distinctly remember a time when I took care of everyone at the expense of taking care of myself. I thought my stage of life
demanded it. I was working from
Turning to small children and roaming, the household, while my husband clocked what felt like a million hours at the office, where would I fit in
I am for me, it wasn't happening eventually
that take care of myself was as much a way of thinking as it was a way of living and
when that operating on empty, completely blind- and me too, the beauty around me
mental live from a place of foreigners? Number six key
a handle on access to members to keep my expectations,
hold belonging to manage on lesser.
With your values: values there distributing you from having rain from of your eyes, lives
edit life takes continual effort and recalibration, because no to season
the same, but it's
say when it means living your life with your heart and eyes, wide open, number, seven changer story dwell in the positive even more than anything above. I think it's off
the script in our heads that keeps us from settling down into the present. If you're discontent,
it was where you are, or if you're down on yourself her who you are. How are you ever cut through that to see the good?
a consistent basis, wash the thoughts,
running through your head, acknowledge them and began to
draft a new script. Here's to fewer distractions, less self
out in more awareness of the moments that make you think this.
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