The generosity boomerang
Here’s conventional wisdom:
Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous.
In fact, it actually works like this:
Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
So many of us feel like our lives are a race – a dash. We are sprinting through the events of our lives to get them “all done.” We have amazing to-do lists; we are compelled to achieve and accomplish; society says this is how we get ahead. We pride ourselves on being so productive.
But what if, instead, the value of life were not in the dash and amount of things we do, but in the quality of life’s events – in the time we spend enjoying, connecting and becoming part of what we do? What if life were more like a garden path than a superhighway?
If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and therefore – most likely/hopefully (you choose) – about to go on holidays, here are some book recommendations.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
As we move from winters to spring and from spring to summers, I sit down to memorise the life lessons learnt during all the seasons of my life passed, to be used in the present and future .A recollection of these lessons I share with you here will provide you with a platform to start the journey of self development and improvement with me and some great ideas to ponder about. As you read along the list of suggestions and my life lessons, I hope you, too, would be on fire with focus, passion and outright excellence. 