Tag: happiness
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Making Peace When You’ve Done No Wrong
A message from a trusted elder sends Lorna on a quiet reckoning with all the places in her life that need peace — even when the fault isn’t hers to claim.
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What It Is Wednesday: The Truth Will Set You Free
FB Memories are often a good memory jogger for me. The photo below was 6 weeks into my first “100happydays” experiment of looking for those joyous little moments in life. Though I’m not almost a year into my second “100happydays” experiment–I didn’t want to quit because of the great value in it for me–I abandoned…
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When I Don’t Know How to Have a Champion
She’s been her own champion for so long that when someone truly steps up for her, she doesn’t know what to do. A raw essay on trust, vulnerability, and finally learning to let someone else fight on your behalf.
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Overshoot Your Goals. Always.
Walking the Camino de Santiago changed everything — and it started with a quarter mile. Here’s why you should always overshoot your goals, no matter how far the finish line seems.
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When You Do Everything Right and Things Don’t Work Out
Hard work, loyalty, kindness — and still things don’t work out. Here’s an honest look at the hardest truth: doing everything right is no guarantee, but it’s still something to be proud of.
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Remember to Milk
One of the hardest things for me to do, up until recently, was to relax and enjoy the moment–something that greatly hindered my happiness quotient. Sure, I would see all the beauty around me, but instead of enjoying it, I would immediately find something to worry about and skip ahead to what I “needed” to…
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The Beam in Your Eye–and Not the Good Kind
I cannot stand gossip. No, wait. It’s more than that. It’s discussion of other people at a level that I never even considered gossip before but now, it irritates me to the point of wanting to throw people out restaurant windows. I think this is what that Bible verse means about noticing the speck of…
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The Best Way to Look Great?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Isn’t it terrific when someone says something at the exact moment you need to hear it to recognize the truth of it? Twice this week, I hosted training sessions at work, and twice received unexpected compliments. These are my colleagues, people I see…
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Just Something I Picked Up in the Grocery Store
Aislinn was unexpectedly with me this afternoon and tonight while her dad went to an out-of-town party and Shannon went to prom, so we ended up gardening together, having dinner, and then a little grocery shopping for fresh fruit and organic milk. The nearly deserted grocery store had one of those annoying motion-detecting-sing-a-long-thingies near the…
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Can You Be Happy at 30? Damned at 35? Delirious at 40?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. It’s an odd question that surfaces among one of my more sociable writers’ groups. Are people really happy at 30? And what happens to make them sour on life before they turn 40, so much of it stinging them around 33 to 35…
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The To-Do-Do-Do List
For such a crazy week, today turned out pretty good in that ordinary, mundane sort of way. Though I knew when I wrote shave my legs on my to-do list, I was already too busy. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip to find happiness on…
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Defining Moments
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Life in the Third Degree. Snippets of conversations sometimes come back to haunt me. Rarely are they words I’ve spoken myself, so it’s not a matter of regretting something I’ve said or done. Vicki tells me that middle-age spread is a direct result of eating your own words…
