Day 1559: Good Advice

Just now, when I searched my own posts for “Good Advice,” I got this message:

NOTHING FOUND

So, if you were looking for good advice between January 1, 2013 and April 7, 2017, it might have been advisable to look elsewhere.

Let’s see if we can find any good advice here, today.

Thanks for that good advice, Ocean!

Here’s more good advice:

• Assume that you will survive everything that comes your way.
• Enjoy the journey as best you can.
• Throw away things you don’t need.
• Do more of what helps.
• Do less of what doesn’t help.
• Spend time with people you like.
• Avoid those who hurt you.
• Take a deep breath.
• Make noise.
• Accept all your feelings.
• Show up.
• Be gentle.
• Tell the truth.
• Be in the moment.
• Use all your senses.
• Access your wisdom.
• Let go of worry, fear, and shame.
• Trust yourself.
• Love freely.
• Care less about what other people think.
• Communicate clearly and directly.
• Move.
• Stop and smell the roses.
• If there aren’t any roses around, stop and see my latest photos.

If you have any good advice, I advise you to leave a comment.

More good advice from me:

• Listen to music that makes you happy.

• Express gratitude.

Day 1228: Danger

Yesterday morning, when I was facilitating a therapy group, I drew this picture

which shows a fish in danger.

Yesterday afternoon, when I was in historic Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, I took these two photos, one after another:

 

For many reasons, I tend to notice potential danger, in the present and in the near future.  Do you?

In my personal and professional lives, I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how much danger people are in, as well as how to negotiate and respond to fear. It makes sense for us to be Fearful of Danger, but how can we accurately assess how much danger we’re in, during any particular moment?  Fear  of danger can save us to live another day;  it can also paralyze and imprison us.

What dangers are you in danger of seeing in my other photos from yesterday?

 

 

 

With all the danger, destruction, death, and dragons we deal with, I sometimes suggest this helpful phrase:

It’s safer than it feels.

Is there any danger of my forgetting to  express gratitude at the end of this blog post?