HAPPINESS HELP » Time http://www.happinesshelp.org helping you on the path to happiness Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:38:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Life Is Short http://www.happinesshelp.org/life-is-short http://www.happinesshelp.org/life-is-short#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 04:13:34 +0000 Alan A http://www.happinesshelp.org/?p=284 How often have we heard the statement, life is short? My question to you is… do you realize it yet? We never do know when our last breath will take place which is all the more reason why it’s important to make the most of every precious moment that we have in this life.

This post is not intended to be a downer but to get us in touch with reality and hopefully help us to learn to try not to waste precious time arguing, fighting, stressing, complaining or doing anything other than making the most of this moment. It may not be easy to cherish difficult moments of life especially when we lose a loved one but even in such times, we can cherish the moments that we shared with that person and cherish our time remaining with our other loved ones.

At the moments in our lives when we are not dealing with the death of a loved one, we should have a much easier time cherishing the moment. We can be grateful for what we have and not allow life’s trials and tribulations to blind us from what is really important. It is so easy to get caught up in the frantic, stressed out pace of today’s world while not enjoying our blessings. In fact, we allow our daily stressors to make us unhappy and to come between the relationships that mean the most to us.

Maybe it’s not outside forces at all that are impacting our ability to treasure the moment but our own psychological and spiritual conditions. These conditions also impact our ability to handle outside stressors. So, whether you have many outside stressors or not, the answer is the same… take care of your spiritual and psychological conditions, remembering that life is short and to enjoy the moment.

]]> http://www.happinesshelp.org/life-is-short/feed 0 Time Takes Time http://www.happinesshelp.org/time-takes-time http://www.happinesshelp.org/time-takes-time#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:01:00 +0000 Alan A http://buckymarvel.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/time-takes-time/ If you are trying to practice the principles outlined on this site in your life, then you may have already discovered that dramatic spiritual and psychological change may take some time. Certainly, we can begin changing immediately but some of the results of our changes will take time. For those of you short on patience who likes to get what they want when they want it, time is probably not one of your favorite words.

Time takes time and there is no way around that. We can choose to fight this simple fact or accept it. How many of you don’t bother to try something because the results are not immediate? If you maintain this attitude in regards to spiritual and psychological change, you may not experience much growth in those areas because short of a spiritual, life changing experience, we need to work at such changes, we need to practice spirituality and right living. Practice by definition implies a lack of immediate and permanent results.

An acronym for time that puts time in perspective is This I Must Earn. When we accept that we cannot change immediately and that some effort will be required to change, we can begin to appreciate time and not be afraid of it. It can actually be quite comforting to know that we do not need to change before tomorrow comes. We have the rest of our time to practice the spiritual life, as long or short as that time may be. Practicing Right Living is what life is all about. Considering that time is limited, I suggest not wasting any of it and getting to work, understanding that the sort of work to which I am referring is enjoyable and rewarding. I find such work to be the most gratifying and important work that I have ever performed.

Time teaches us patience and humility when we realize that we cannot snap our fingers and instantaneously become the people that we want to be. We’ll have to work and wait.

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