Very much resonates with what I think & feel. 

It seems to be as tragic as it is true: you got to lose something to realize what it means to you and how the 🌍 (= your life) would be without it. Seems to apply to goods and people (often 💛 ones) as well as to immaterial “things” like freedom, trust, happiness and health…

A basic example: you HAVE to be injured, hurt or ill to realize the true value of health. You cannot be grateful, no matter how often you stress to be. It doesn’t work that way!

“True emotions are moments - everything else is neurotic” - as my father always says. Certainly true for this type of emotions. 

Best of luck and all the luck in the 🌍 Your m

The Reminder From The Past

A quick personal story:

I changed my job a while ago. I changed it for the better - in pretty much every way possible. I am truly happy with that decision and how things turned out.

But to be honest with you in daily business I often forget about all the positive changes and the advantages, I forget about the bad days I had in the old position and all the negative stuff I had to deal with day in and day out.

But every Thursday morning I receive a push notification on my phone saying:

“Input weekly report - 2pm”

… reminding me to hand in my content for the weekly report to my former manager. I had once set this alarm to make sure that I meet the deadline on this weekly doing… (btw: I felt no pleasure whatsoever going through project plans, spreadsheets and various calendars to put this stuff together) but today those lines create a moment of joy and gratefulness every single week.

For a weird reason, we are not grateful for what we have in life… But chances are good that things might change immediately as soon as you put on the shoes you wore yesterday and think of what things were like back then.

That is what that alert does for me and why still keep it - as stupid as it probably is.

Your m

Mr. President - are you happy?

... and what we all can learn from his answer - about our own challenges, stress and how to handle everything. 

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