Notes Home with Aaron Magnan

When you have something to do but it’s not time to think about it, reduce stressful thoughts and increase positive emotions with these two little tricks. Program yourself by using your imagination. Super simple.

Start the day aware and awake and in a positive mood. Include water, stretching and meditation in the morning to be in a healthy space for being in the world.

One workplace dilemma is the relationship dynamic of personalities. Our personalities and those of others may get in the way of learning about someone else’s strengths. The solution is to value strengths over personalities in a group ir organization.

Do you have things that are special that you store away? Items? Memories? Photos? Music? I wonder theough the idea of purposefully using these things to create an opportunity or series of opportunity to be grateful.

Why do we need more talks on happiness or social commentary?  We are already inundated.  

The answer to this lies in the fact that because of the emotional shifts we experience on any given day, we can often only hang on to what is in front of us.  

We need wisdom reminders.  Sometimes that comes through a phase in life during which we read voraciously or devour dozens of TED Talks and YouTube videos from the masters.  Other times, it is a simple cliche or quote that has never had a ring more true than at that moment for us.

St. Thomas Aquinas: It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it was true.

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