This was shared in a morning email in July. Extract from Matt Haig 'Reasons to Stay Alive." 1.
Appreciate happiness when it is there. Sip, don't gulp. Be gentle with yourself. Work less. Sleep more. There is absolutely nothing in the past you can change. That's basic physics. Kurt Vonnegut was right when he said “Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.” Listen more than you talk. Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful. Be aware that you are breathing. Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind. Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you. Shower before noon.
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"Move forward. Good things are up ahead."
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