"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and eect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up straight and strong are the ones that break."

Julia Butterfly Hill

"This now is it. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by this moment's energy here in your hand."

Rumi 

How will you make the most of each precious moment of NOW today?

Precisely the least,

the softest, lightest,

a lizard's rustling,

a breath,

a flash,

a moment -

a little makes the way of

the best happiness.

Friedrich Nietzche

"Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Robert G Ingersoll

Look around you right now. What do you see that makes you happy? Check your feelings. You are alive and you can make choices. There is only this present moment. Now, how can you find your way to happiness through others today?

Did you have fun last week? Lots of you did, I know, and some people reported that even though they had chosen things to do that were enjoyable, they felt guilty doing them at the expense of other pursuits. Interesting, huh? Thirty minutes out of your day to have fun isn’t going to have a negative effect on anything so why not send that guilt on a one way trip out of your life?

This week our happiness habit is to Be Inspired. And I’m going to be appearing in your inbox daily for the next seven days with an inspirational quote, poem or reflection.

This week is about getting better acquainted with the child within you. Whatever your current age there is a good chance that you feel a lot younger. Perhaps you have a birth certificate that says 30, 40 or 50 something – but you feel like a teenager? Well, I want to invite you to go back even before your teenage years and remind yourself of a much younger self.