Building Blocks
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
(I *LOVE* this quote!)
Sometimes, life presents us with challenges. (Have you noticed that? ????)
Our impulse is to fight, resist, and resent those challenges. We wish that things could be different. We just want the problem, the pain, the challenge, or the illness to go away so that we can go back to our lives. We want the obstacle removed so that we can be happy again.
What if we viewed the obstacle as a path to advance and deepen our happiness? Is it possible to take what is holding us back and use it to propel us forward? I have contemplated these questions in recent years.
Pain, adversity, and hardship are intrinsic to life. When confronted with these obstacles we are often thrust on a new path–a path toward growth. This new path provides us an opportunity to rise, to become bigger than our problems, to become more of who we are capable of being. And isn’t that the purpose of life?
Where there is a purpose, there is meaning, and where there is meaning there is happiness.
Viewed in this way, our problems are no longer impediments to our happiness. Indeed, our problems can put us on a path to deepen, expand, and strengthen our happiness.
Let what impedes us, empower us. Let what stands in our way, become the way.
Changing the Channel
What’s going on in politics today is not to be believed...yet here we are. 
It is disheartening on many levels.
I am observing that when I am tuned into the news my signal to peace and happiness gets scrambled. The static drains my energy, fuels angst, and throws me off center. This is not conducive to joy and well-being.
Here are simple things we can do to help us tune into ourselves and find our signal back to happiness:
- Journal about that for which we are grateful.
- Practice conscious acts of kindness.
- Walk in nature.
- Spend time and BE with family–with your whole “Being”–not just
your body. 
- Think about and focus on what you want in your life (not what you
don’t want) and take one tiny step in the direction of your dreams.
- Learn something new.
- Read a book, or listen to music that inspires.
- Meditate.
- Consume less–create more!
These small actions won’t change the political climate, but they will help us adjust our internal climate so that we can be a reflection of what’s good in our world.
Tune in, adjust your frequency, and broadcast happiness today! 
