Flashback from 2017: Choosing Being Over Doing

 Don't equate your self worth with how well you do in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't...you aren't.

Wayne Dyer

Had such a lovely brunch with friends today. One of the things we discussed was "doing". I had a friend share she was spending more of her retirement time just relaxing. She was choosing "reading and chilling" over housework and chores. She stated that she sometimes found herself comparing her "lack of doing" with her relatives's "active, non-stop doing". I wanted to share that I agreed with her approach and that I understood by referring her to a few articles I had written during the "publishing challenge" I underwent in 2017. (Wrote 8 articles in two weeks and sent them out to see how many publications I would get...surprisingly, all but one got published). These articles were all about the need to "be" over the conditioned need to "do". 

I probably bored my friends to tears by sending these articles along...but I did anyway.  Maybe it will bore you too, but I will enclose links to these articles here just in case you want to have a peek...or not. 

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/measuring-the-quality-of-your-day-with-a-to-be-list-not-just-a-to-do-list/

https://www.themindfulword.org/learning-tagore-take-break/

https://thewisdomdaily.com/what-i-learned-from-blaise-pascal-about-the-power-of-stillness/

https://www.globalharmonycrew.com/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-life-the-24-hour-life/#google_vignette

All is well!