by Merci Gracia | Dec 31, 2017 | Appreciation
If life is a school, learning is your mission. Since relationships affect every aspect of life, they’re a good place to focus your attention. You can enhance the quality of any relationship by being kinder, giving others the benefit of the doubt, not taking...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 20, 2017 | Appreciation
When you enjoy being yourself, it’s possible to see everything as a pure expression of joy. You take pleasure in the most ordinary details of life. A smile from a complete stranger or a child playing with boundless creativity and an utter lack of...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 15, 2017 | Appreciation, Grateful
Anticipating that the best is yet to come keeps you open to growing in ways you couldn’t have imagined. When you expect a bright future without knowing who, what, when, where or how, you allow life to fill in those details in the perfect way. When you anticipate...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 16, 2017 | Appreciation
Where you focus your attention determines the quality of your experience. Spending your time looking at what’s wrong bolsters the ego, but lowers your vibration. Finding the good raises your vibration so you see everything, even what needs fixing, from an...
by Merci Gracia | May 27, 2017 | Appreciation
When you do something for the sheer joy of doing it, rather than to strengthen your identity, not only is your approach different, the result is too. Doing for the pure pleasure it gives you involves no stress because you’re not attached to any particular...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 5, 2016 | Appreciation
External conditions aren’t really what create our happiness. How we frame what’s happening in the moment is what causes our feelings. While stuck in the misguided and depressing paradigm of thinking that joy comes only after some particular condition is...