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Not too fast. There is something more important.
What’s now?
Cooking a meal — There’s fast food and there’s slow food. One satisfies a craving and the other satisfies the soul. As long as your phone isn’t nearby, you just might find some peace chopping vegetables and you may even enter a rhythm of being that’s quite serene and wonderfully human.
Smiling at strangers — Try this out for size. We’re not so strange after a gratuitous acknowledgment of the other’s presence.
Writing, stamping, and mailing a handwritten note — Over 3,000 times today you were sold something. How many times today were you told something in handwritten ink on paper? I rest my case.
Look and SEE — There’s looking and then there’s seeing. I don’t think we see if we’re not looking. Try out a game of ‘I Spy’ in your life, relationships, and business.
Be Silent and Still for two to ten minutes — Try out Headspace for 10 days. When you learn to see and hear the noise you’ll find how to navigate around it and through it. When’s the last time you simply sat still? This will shift things for you.
You would be shocked if you knew how many knees were bent right now in prayer.
No doubt that thousands of poems are being typed and written right now.
Just a guess, but I would bet that over 1,000 times a minute today someone holds a door for someone with their hands full.
Ten billion thank you’s will be exchanged today. Easily.
I’m guessing that over 10,000 crossing guards this morning stopped traffic for lunch pale toting ducklings on their way to school.
Right now….right this very minute…thousands of chefs are preparing menus and dreaming in flavors for their Friday night guests.
If a billion cut roses are sold in the United States each year, that means that at least 31 buds per second are bursting in our universe today before they get to your vase. For your enjoyment, by the way.
And guess what? The sun pulled up over our horizon again this morning.
Here’s the catch of the day…once you learn to see it, you’ll see it everywhere.
See what?
Beauty. Benevolence. Whimsy. Hope. Thrill. Joy. Experience. Euphoria. Etc.
Breaking news! You’re the host of the today show.
If you don’t get it in the now you won’t get it in your tomorrows.
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