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The Joy of Less
Getting Help
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
30.10.20
"Julie, you can't do everything. You need to take care of yourself, not let yourself get overloaded. Let people help; let me help. Figure out what is most important and let go of the rest."
Somebody told me that one of an arrogant is who won't to asked for a help from other..but,...i'm still a kind of human who really want to do all of my duties, tasks and all my stuffs without bother anyone else. I think they have their own trouble and won't to add to them. .hahaha..and i think it's better if i help them, instead of getting help.
What do you think? Am i quite arrogant? How about you?
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
_Henry David Thoreau_
Lovely One
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
30.10.20
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals - Immanuel Kant
Be Tough
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
23.10.20
In every struggle we through in and in every tears's dropped, may all of us still keep strong, no saying something that may we regret it someday.
Keep you head up and see the great next chapter that God's planned.
"What seems to us bitter trial are often blessings in disguise."
by Oscar Wilde
Eyeglasses
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
21.10.20
Sometimes how you feel about where you live comes from how you see it.
_Gene R. Smilie_
Yeah, as a human we have so many chance to fulfill our needs or wants.
I believe every person are created unique and with different purpose.
When we look for others life, seems happy and starting to compare our life, we just have 3 things to be thought : gratitude, envy and comparing or look for what we can improve.
Which one do you choose? Choose it wisely.
Priority
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
16.10.20
Life is all about the stories and the time we share with loved ones.
_April Serock_
People are busy with their life and why some people have enough time for family, me time, do work out, etc.
"Enough time" means have priority. Those people set their priority, so they can manage time barn good to do the priority and the less.
AN ABSENCE
Less Is So Much More _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
08.10.20
Sometimes, you just have to less to realize how much you really have until they're not.
So, be grateful and appreciate what you have. It's not easy for starting but you can if there's a will.
Sharing is Happiness
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
08.10.20
Natalie June Reilly proved there is happiness in life's simplest things, and we will never know how much until we've shared those things with others.
"The test of our progress is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
_Franklin D. Roosevelt_
Book Lover
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
03.10.20
Anyone who reads this is a book lover?
The book that i mean could be comic, novel.
I love to read and sometimes buy 2-4 books in one time and stuck with how to finish them all. hahahha .... and 'til one day thought that i have to read all the books that i've bought because won't be a Tsundoku.
So, I made a target for every book and finish them one by one.
One of my favorite is Detective Conan comic that i collect since i was on elementary school until now. I think that is a rich comic. Not only laugh i get, but also I can get so many knowledge. What's your favourite?
PS:
While writing this blog, I still have 2 books to read.
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
_Harold Kushner_
Release
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
02.10.20
Sometimes we don't know somethings means so worthwhile for someone until we release it.
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
_Minor Myers_
PS:
Be Best as we can, is the good one we can do.
Freecycling
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
29.09.20
One of the best things about freecycling is that by pulling together in their local communities, people have kept tons of perfectly good, usable stuff out of landfills while at the same time helping their neighbors. That's a win-win scenario.
- W. Bradford Swift
G I V E
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
24.09.20
Everything that we have is entrusted goods. Earn it as much, use it wisely and give it for who needs.
We sometimes count our blessings in things. The truth is one of the greatest blessings we have is our own ability to look beyond ourselves.
My exBoss said that by giving we learn to be not greedy.
and my Grandma also Anne Frank said that "No one has ever become poor by giving"
Consistency
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
23.09.20
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
-Henry Ford
When People are Gather ...
The Joy of Sharing _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
19.09.20
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
-Alice Waters-
Gather is a meeting of people for a particular purpose (source: Oxford Dictionaries).
Nowadays, we can find easily places that can give us a cozy areas and warmth themes for people can stick together and share their thoughts, joys, also sorrows.
Find your good community, as bible says : "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners" (1 Cor 15:33)
Happiness
Joyfully Unplugged _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
14.09.20
I'm happy because i have my new shoes collection / i have branded things / i do always getaway abroad.
Walt Whitman said that Happiness, not in another place but this place. . . not for another hour, but this hour.
Which means that happiness comes from our inside, how we live our every second of breathe with grateful heart, use it carefully.
So, why don't we start to be happy and give our best foe very second we have?
Family
Joyfully Unplugged _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
12.09.20
A Family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
_Buddha_
Let me know what family means to you.
How deep do your parents and siblings figure in your life.
DM me, okay?
Pause
Joyfully Unplugged _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
04.09.20
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity
_Karl Barth_
Shabbat or Sunday, most of people spend the day as a family time or for refreshing or pause that refreshes (as Bracha Goetz said).
The day becomes the only chance we give ourselves each week to slow down and observe the people and places that are beside us. It provides us with time to more fully appreciate and savor all the blessings and even cnversing with a real live. Give us the time and space to be mindful and observe where we are on our journeys, to reconnect with our purpose.
My "Friend"
Joyfully Unplugged _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
31.08.20
"My Friends are A, B, C, X, etc." and they say "I just have 2 friends and also my best friend.
Nowdays, who is your friend?
Is that human or being replaced with gadget, social media, TV shows?
When somebody sticks with his/her "friend", it seemed like he/she's missing out on more and more opportunities to be truly present with one another because of time spent on the internet or media.
It seemed the majority of interactions now consisted of "liking" each other's pictures on various social media accounts, getting update of friend's status.
Mentality, spiritual and physic are getting low from day to another day eventhough looks happy to live it.
Live your reality life truly and live in balance is a key for a better life.
Mellisa Wootan said that "I even became more mature in my spiritual life in the absence of those one thousand voices, an di used this new quiet to draw closer to God."
Draw closer to God makes you and me more stronger to stand firm. I challenge you ! !
DON'T WORRY
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
28.08.20
Don't worry about what you don't have.
DO the BEST you can with what you got.
-- Christopher E. Cantrell's grandpa
Change My Life
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
27.08.20
Time is preciously. How to appreciate it?
How many of us know this motto: If you're no late you're not Indonesian because majority people in this country can't ontime (or also called: rubber time "Jam Karet")?
and how many of us realized that being on time shows respect and consideration for other people's time and commitments.
For me, better to wait someone than be awaited because one of the best things we can do for other is when we appreciate other's time (thing that can't be seen, can't be retrack, but can be feeled and so precious). When we appreciate other's time, we're also appreciate the person.
Minimalism vs Simplicity
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
25.08.20
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
When we crave simplicity, we are not after an easier life. We are after life.
Dave Bruno
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something.
Minimalism is a tool to rid of yourself of life's excess in favor of focusing on what's important - so you can find happiness, fulfillment, and freedom.
The Minimalists
Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple.
Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.
Simple living is a minimal, low-consumption way of living sometimes called minimalism.
“Minimal” can be simplistic, but simple is not always minimal.
Which one do we wanna live for?
C.o.f.f.e.e
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
20.08.20
Hello ....
Is that you whose eyes need one of the most popular beverage these years, to still stare and awake, mm.. and be more productive every day? Let me answer this first with "Yes, it's me. Hahaha".
I love the smell of coffee, and exactly how it produces dopamine for me.
Eventhough i love coffee, i'm grateful for not buying unneccesary also many many things about coffee.
How about you? What's your collection?
_But, different with Terri Guillemets, I orchestrate my afternoon to the tune of coffee._
I'm Possible
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
15.08.20
Change is the act or instance of making or becoming different. If that word just stifled on mind and there's no action comes, it will never be something new and useful for you and me.
Let's make a life alive !
"Unless you prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you will be forever on the control of the thing you can't give up."
Andy Law
Another Graduation Day
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
06.08.20
Are you one of who care enough to just hide the stuff from its bachelor days rather than throwing it all away?
The reasons people hold on so tightly to stuff they don't use is because they think they might need it someday, or because it reminds them of person or a time from their past. Don't you realize that most stuff can be easily and cheaply replaced if you need it and it is quickly forgotten when you put it out of sight.
Just try it !
WHEN did last you feel GRATEFUL ?
All You Need Is Less _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
05.08.20
Something tragic that happened, not always as tragic at the end.
We can feel grateful for all things has come out to build our ability to live our dream.
And one of the best idea to grateful is back to nature where has not rearranged by the hand of human.
Passion is Energy
The Joy of No _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
04.08.20
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you "Oprah Winfrey"
Find that one thing that means the most to you personally. Whatever your passion may be, find it out and you'll be able to politely say no for things that not in your area of passion, guilt-free.
My Limit ....
The Joy of No _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
01.08.20
"I felt good to do good others." and " I was okay with that."
Do you think the same?
I wanna tell you that it was time for change. By being overly generous with your time, not honoring own needs or ourselves. By allowing them (who we help) to become dependent upon our kindness that also means not allowing them to learn to care for themselves.
We can ask they questions once they asked the help form us, such as: "Is this an emergency? Is someone else available to help you? Is this something that can wait?" or maybe "Is this something you could do for yourself?"
By setting a limit, you can live a better life, more balance.
Passionate Life
The Joy of No _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
30.07.20
Have you ever heard about passion? If you say: "Huh? what's that?" or "Yeah, i've read in some books, but mmm...". Okay, here definition of passion is that i do agree.
Passion is the energy that keeps us going, that keeps us filled with meaning, and happiness and excitement and anticipation.
In order to be really good at passion / something, we have to let other things go, work and focus on it. Life isn't about what the person i want to be, what my parents desired on me, but really about what God wants me to be and fulfills His purpose in me.
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"It's your place in the world, it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live" _ Mae Jemison
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What if NO?
The Joy of No _ Based on Chicken Soup for The Soul
28.07.20
Josh Billings said half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying YES to Quickly and not saying NO soon enough.
Sometimes we think we should be superman / superwoman. We do all things with perfectly by ourselves, without asking for help from anyone.But, it is unhealthy. We have to learn to give ourselves a break because it's absolutely okay to say NO. It's a necessity, because the truth is we can't do it all.
First step is no always easy, but you can do it.It's not always YES, if you could say NO.
YES? No?