🔸Where Is Happiness? 🔸
Rapha and I adopted Sesame on one Saturday night.
The following Sunday, we canceled all of our previous plans and called it the “Sesame Day”.
We hit the Pet Safari and bought what we thought would make her happy. I was over enthusiastic about the toys.
We took a cat tunnel, a fluffy little house with special feature, a cat tease stick with unique technology that was sure - by the marketer - to create “maximum fun, development, and engagement” for our Sesame.
I soon learned that the marketer must have made a mistake. Because she couldn’t care less.
The only thing she touched was the 1-dollar cat tease.
Until she discovered her ultimate toy: a dry leaf that fell down from a plant in the balcony.
She held it in her mouth, brought it in the house, dropped it on the floor near my feet, looked at me as if saying “Mom! Look at this magical thing I found!”
She then chewed on it, kicked it around, tucked it under the carpet, rolled over on her belly to wrestle with it.
And when she got tired of playing, she slept next to it.
Watching Sesame and her dry leaf makes me think of how I’d many times tried hard, spent money or years of my life, to get something I thought would make me happy.
When I finally got it and realized it didn’t make me happy, I wondered what was wrong with me.
I didn’t know that the things that really made me happy was simple, inexpensive, often-free.
I also see this in the women I work with in my coaching program.
It’s not the promotion, the designer shoes, the beach house, the perfect lover, or the sports car.
It’s the moment when you sip your tea and watch the rain, a tight hug, a smile with a stranger while you both wait for the elevator, the smell on the bark of an oak tree, mango, a tiny pot of succulent on your desk, reading a book you love…
And yet, this wasn’t clear to every women I worked with.
But when I get them to be still, to feel it in their heart, they always can tell me about their “dry leaf” - the simple things that make them smile.
The next step is to do a bit less of the things that they “think” will make them happy.
So they make a bit more space for the things that *really* make them happy.
(I bet you can’t imagine Sesame forces herself to run around the cat tunnel. Then complains that she has no time to play with her leaf.)
It is to gracefully say no to the people who gives you the “cat tunnel”.
Insist on taking your dry leaf with you.
And do that, a little bit each day, every single day of your life.
So now I have 2 questions for you, beautiful one.
- What’s your “dry leaf”?
- Can you give yourself 10 minutes today to “play” with it? (No. You don’t need to quit your job.)
If you can, that’s 1 baby step you take towards the life you want.
🌻And if you need someone to guide you, you may find me on that journey. Let me help you milenanguyen.com/coaching/
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2016 11 21 (一)Fourplay 2.0 anniversary
Fourplay二店滿一年囉!暨上次一店週年慶我們捐贈物資給需要幫助的人獲得許多朋友迴響後,愛動物的我們也要盡小小的力量,來幫人類最好的朋友~
這次我們將與為流浪動物募餐的浪浪愛心拍賣市集合作,將各位的愛心送給有需要的單位,當晚除了和我們一起慶祝外,更重要也讓毛毛們下一餐有著落。
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當晚來參加週年慶的朋友,有捐贈狗狗貓貓等寵物食物,fourplay請你喝杯我們的愛心調酒,當晚並送你我們精心製作的週年慶禮物「不單純鑰匙圈」期待愛動物的你們一起來參與我們的罐罐換杯杯喔,也歡迎帶你們的寶貝一起來玩。
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2016 11 21 (一)Fourplay 2.0 anniversary
Fourplay's second store has just reached its first anniversary! As our charity event last year for our flagship store was met with lots of positive feedback from friends, this year we also want to do something meaningful for humanity, and we hope to use whatever little power we have to make a difference for stray dogs and cats, our closest friends~
This time we are collaborating with an organization called "浪浪愛心拍賣市集", or "Fluffy Love Auction Market", which was basically started by a couple of fashion lovers who wanted to find second life for their old clothes and also donate to a positive cause. We hope our customers and friends can come celebrate the anniversary, but also know that the profits will go to helping keep strays off the rough streets.
Activity Details
For those attending the anniversary event, if you bring any form of dog or cat food/treats, Fourplay will exchange your donations with a specially handcrafted cocktail, along with a very special gift -- the "super dope keychain" -- which can double as an Easy Card. We look forward to having the animal lover in all of you to join the party and participate in our meaningful "Cans for Cups" anniversary~
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