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Happiness Challenge Round 2 May 7th
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Yes there is, would be great to have you. I know I posted what would fix but can't quote exactly. Let me know if I need to test. It will tell me which item needs to be changed:) Whitney
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Eleanor, Excellent reminder. I so agree that we have an incredible group going. Hopeing a few more will allow themselves to try! We are the evidence of what is stated on the Forum Banner.
Kudos to you and Pencil for accepting the next Happiness Challenge # 3. Hugs, Whitney
Kudos to you and Pencil for accepting the next Happiness Challenge # 3. Hugs, Whitney
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Clarification for continuing members of the Happiness Challenge. We will move over for public posting to Eleanor's thread. [DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/happiness-challenge-round-3-starting-june-1.34388/[/DLMURL].
The private conversation will continue in the same thread we have been on.
All newcomers are Welcome to join us. Please let us know as soon as possible so we may invite you to the private conversation.
Happiness Challenge Round 3 begins June 1st. Don't be bashful, join the team and grow. Whitney
The private conversation will continue in the same thread we have been on.
All newcomers are Welcome to join us. Please let us know as soon as possible so we may invite you to the private conversation.
Happiness Challenge Round 3 begins June 1st. Don't be bashful, join the team and grow. Whitney
Just to clarify: Whitney will continue doing an admirable job on the Happiness Challenge Round 3. I'll continue flapping around.
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SOL I just tried to invite you but no luck. I believe there is setting in preferences? Allow others to send conversations???
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For any who are not on the private conversation, I am cross posting my daily posts here too,
Hello Team 21! Welcome to day one of the Happiness Challenge!
We should all welcome our newest members, snappy turtle and Nicolette!
A few things: remember the Happiness Challenge is about doing the five practices - every day. The idea is not to IGNORE or minimize the challenges and difficulties in our lives, but o cultivate the capacity for happiness.
The "copernican revolution" that this challenge is based on is the discovery that the standard story that success leads to/causes happiness is backwards. In real life success is caused, in part, by happiness. So Happiness comes first. I think that is very good news.
The five things are:
1) Meditate (in whatever form you like, but some form of focusing your attention without actively thinking). I like to try for 20 minutes - as this is generally long enough for me to manage at least three or so minutes of having my brain be quiet! There is no upper or lower limit on this, you should set your own goal in a way that makes it a bit of a challenge but DOABLE.
2) Exercise - whatever is appropriate for you, and again, the idea is someone you can and will DO.
3) Gratitude - identify and write down three things you are grateful for.
4) Happy memory - journal about a good thing that happened the day before
5) Random act of kindness - the idea here is to do something to improve the day of someone else. It doesn't have to be huge. And it doesn't necessarily have to be effective, a try counts too. I am going to be more pro-active this time. Instead of waiting for opportunities to present themselves when I am out and about (which I am not every day) I am going to work on initiating things too, like writing thank you notes. The happyr.com site (which has prompts for this stuff that are automatically emailed to you!) has email/facebook/twitter links on the bottom to make it easy to reach out and say something nice.
Some of us "old timers" are adding an item to our personal list. I am adding on keeping my car clean. For most people this would not be a daily thing - but I have a six year old who rides with me (my daughter!) and we are going to be spending a lot of next month in the car, so I want to get into the habit of it being kept nicely as it really really bums me out when it is yucky. If I put in the effort every day it will be much much easier.
Happy happiness cultivating!
I am grateful for my husband "talking me down" out of a funk yesterday.
I am grateful for coffee.
I am grateful for incremental improvements in my environment.
My happy memory from yesterday is passing my H on his way out to work - and us stopping and getting out of the cars for a hug in the parking lot of the paint store on the corner!
Meditation, exercise and Random Act still to come.
Hello Team 21! Welcome to day one of the Happiness Challenge!
We should all welcome our newest members, snappy turtle and Nicolette!
A few things: remember the Happiness Challenge is about doing the five practices - every day. The idea is not to IGNORE or minimize the challenges and difficulties in our lives, but o cultivate the capacity for happiness.
The "copernican revolution" that this challenge is based on is the discovery that the standard story that success leads to/causes happiness is backwards. In real life success is caused, in part, by happiness. So Happiness comes first. I think that is very good news.
The five things are:
1) Meditate (in whatever form you like, but some form of focusing your attention without actively thinking). I like to try for 20 minutes - as this is generally long enough for me to manage at least three or so minutes of having my brain be quiet! There is no upper or lower limit on this, you should set your own goal in a way that makes it a bit of a challenge but DOABLE.
2) Exercise - whatever is appropriate for you, and again, the idea is someone you can and will DO.
3) Gratitude - identify and write down three things you are grateful for.
4) Happy memory - journal about a good thing that happened the day before
5) Random act of kindness - the idea here is to do something to improve the day of someone else. It doesn't have to be huge. And it doesn't necessarily have to be effective, a try counts too. I am going to be more pro-active this time. Instead of waiting for opportunities to present themselves when I am out and about (which I am not every day) I am going to work on initiating things too, like writing thank you notes. The happyr.com site (which has prompts for this stuff that are automatically emailed to you!) has email/facebook/twitter links on the bottom to make it easy to reach out and say something nice.
Some of us "old timers" are adding an item to our personal list. I am adding on keeping my car clean. For most people this would not be a daily thing - but I have a six year old who rides with me (my daughter!) and we are going to be spending a lot of next month in the car, so I want to get into the habit of it being kept nicely as it really really bums me out when it is yucky. If I put in the effort every day it will be much much easier.
Happy happiness cultivating!
I am grateful for my husband "talking me down" out of a funk yesterday.
I am grateful for coffee.
I am grateful for incremental improvements in my environment.
My happy memory from yesterday is passing my H on his way out to work - and us stopping and getting out of the cars for a hug in the parking lot of the paint store on the corner!
Meditation, exercise and Random Act still to come.
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I changed who can send me messages. Maybe that was the problem?
Eleanor
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I SoL - I suspect it was. We haven't worked out to give me the ability to add people in, but Whitney will be on it!
WELCOME to the Team!!!!
WELCOME to the Team!!!!
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It worked! Welcome Aboard the Happiness Challenge 3.
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You are just to adorable! Thanks for the complement :)
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