I woke up this morning (more like in the middle of the night), but I didn’t know what time it was since I don’t wear a watch and I don’t have a clock in my room. I didn’t feel like rolling out of bed and stumble over to where my phone was being charged overnight. A voice within me said to get up, but I ignored it and tried to go back to sleep. The voice reminded me that when I listen to it, I find life to be good.
I rolled out of bed. It was 2:30 AM. Suddenly, I realized that is all about our attitudes. Life is what we make of it. I have learned over the years that when I listen to that still voice within me that I know as my intuition, wonderful things happen, while I don’t always know what happens when I don’t listen, I know there are times when I am consumed with the regret of I should have listened to that voice.
So, as I sat there in the darkness, wide eyed, at the end of my bed, this calm and blissful feeling came over me knowing that my life is great and I have total control over how my life will turn out based on the thoughts I choose to entertain. As my friend Cathy (@CelibritiCat) put it, “Just because a negative thought comes to visit you doesn’t mean that you have to welcome it, or entertain it. If you entertain it, it will stay.”
I knew in that moment, that as long as I trust my intuition and allow it to guide me by taking inspired actions, regardless of whether they make sense or not – like rolling out of bed at 2:30 in the morning to find out that it’s 2:30 in the morning – I will always find happiness.
As far as I am concerned, there is no better way to define success than to find happiness.
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I believe that happiness is the point, if there is a point. Whatever brings one happiness is the only mystery involved.
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