Day 17

Feom 40 days to a Joy filled life by Tommy Newberry

- We do all sorts of silly things that fuel our negative emotions. As a result, we end up getting more of what we don't want

- We distort things, we exaggerate things, we amplify our experiences in life and we pick the wrong things to dwell on.

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Day 16

From 40 days to a joy-filled life by Tommy Newberry

- We cannot trust our feelings to be synonymous with facts.
- According to humorist Josh Billings, its what we know that ain't true that causes us so much trouble
- the single biggest mistake people make when dealing with feelings is accepting them as true
- Feelings are data that you must filter through reason
- The longer you have been led by your feelings, the harder it will be to establish reason as the basis for future decision making. Our culture celebrates empathy, emotion driven morality.
- it is often through our feelings that we are typically led astray

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Day 15

From 40 days to a Joy-Filled life by Tommy Newberry

- Ingrates feel entitled. Nothing is quite so powerful or so quickly destructive to your potential for joy as the attitude of entitlement. This is relatively modern notion that someone or some group owes us, that we deserve something from others. With this mindset, even if we receive something, we don't see it as a gift but as a right.

- Moaners and whiners surround us, and they often seem to be competing to see who has the worst grievance against society or who can be the most offended

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Day 14

From 40 days to a joy-filled life by Tommy Newberr

- our thoughts like our actions have consequences.as relentlessly as you may try , you cannot think one thing and experience something else
- you cannot think negatively and live positively

Day 13

From 40 days to a joy-filled life by Tommy Newberry

- when we witness people having a really good time , our curiosity is activated.
- our human nature, with an assist from modern culture promotes the idea that solutions must be deep and complicated to be valuable. In most cases, nothing could be farther from the truth.lasting solutions are surprisingly simple. Joy is within us but it must be released.

Day 12

From 40 days to a Joy-filled life by Tommy Newberry

According to clinical psychologist Dr. Mark Crawford, " the idea of finding your soulmate is a myth. A soulmate is created by sharing the best and worst experiences of life together over a period of many, many years.

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Day 11

From 40 days to a Joy filled life by Tommy Newberry

When you feel a sense of deficiency, it does not necessarily mean that you are lacking something important. What it does mean is that you have recently been thinking about what is absent, very likely to the exclusion of what is present.

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Self-compassion

I am currently reading this book in Kindle with the title " Self-compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" by Kristin Neff I am just in Chapter 2 and I am actually liking it.
Below are some of the lines that I liked from what I read today:

No matter how difficult things get, we can always wrap our torn and tattered selves in our own soft embrace. We can soothe and comfort our own pain, just a child is soothed and comforted by her mother's arms. We don't have to wait until we are perfect, until life goes exactly as we want it to. We don't need to look outside ourselves for the acceptance and security we crave. This is not to say that we don't need other people. Of course we do. But who is in the best position to know how you really feel underneath that cheerful facade? Who is most likely to know the full extent of the pain and fear you face, to know what you need most? Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.

Day 10

From 40 days to a Joy filled life by Tommy Newberry

- You are writing your own life story with each subtle thought you think

- almost everything that happens to you good or bad originates with a single thought.

- Neuroscientists can now demonstrate that every thought sends electrical and chemical signals throughout your brain , ultimately affecting each cell in your body.
- Remind yourself that " your thoughts are showing"
- your thoughts are incrementally shaping your destiny here on earth
- you have authority over your thoughts

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Day 9

From 40 days to a Joy filles life by Tommy Newberry

- Take a vacation from yourself
- Create a mental vacation that updates your perspective, reloads your enthusiasm and rebuilds your potential for joy
- you can accomplish this mental getaway by varying some of your habits, especially your thought patterns for a week or so

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Day 8

From 40 days to a Joy-filled life by Tommy Newberry

- Understanding how your self-concept influences your attitude toward life can help you both live with and spread more joy.

- Your self-concept is the picture that you hold of yourself at the unconscious level

Day 7

From 40 days to a Joy-filled life by Tommy Newberry

- We become what we behold
- Whatever you dwell upon becomes increasingly conspicuous in your own mind
- Resist the urge to accelerate negative emotional spirals by chronically reporting your own negative headlines
- whatever holds our attention molds our intention

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