It's Day 2 of my meditation series through Oprah and Deepak and I'm telling you this stuff is good! Apparently I needed an extra dose of it yesterday, because I listened to the first message 4xs to help me through the day. What point really hit home is that external influences shouldn't affect our internal state of mind. Our peace and happiness shouldn't be based on a dollar figure, a relationship, a promotion, an address, clothing label, a trip, or anything else external.
It made me think about a conversation I had back in the day, someone was telling me that if they won the lottery that they would donate the entire check to charity. Since I knew this person far too well, I had no filter, said that I strongly doubted that and continued to back up my blurt. My argument went something like this "Do you think Oprah just woke up one day and decided to be charitable? I don't think so, I think she's always been a giver." This person (being one of the most uptight people with their money that I know), in my opinion, wasn't going to just magically change gears and be a giver after three decades of being Scrooge McDuck.
This made me think about my friend Teresa, man is she a giver. Every time I go over to her house I leave like a looter; there is not a selfish bone in her body and that's one of her many beauties.
Back to meditation. If we look for external circumstances to bring us joy, peace and happiness, we are always going to be looking for external circumstances to bring us joy, peace and happiness.
Daily Challenge:
Stop putting the key to peace, joy and happiness in the hands of things or people. Take a fierce look at yourself and your blessings. Boom.
Song of the Day:
THIS SONG. This song right here gets me hyped! I hope it changes your Tuesday.
Diplo - Revolution
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