Skip to main content

The Happiness Project

I've been currently reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I must say that it's the kind of book one should read in bites and pieces, and every now and then do some self-reflections and put some thought into what's been read. It's really the kind of book you can leave on the shelf and after a week of leaving it to collect dust, you can still pick up the book and read from where you left of. It's been insightful so far and there are always ways to go from "being ok" to being contented. And most of the things are really the simplest things which are actually within our control.

Feel like sharing Gretchen's 12 Commandments:

1) Be yourself (in this case for me, Be Sakinah).
2) Let it go.
3) Act the way I want to feel.
4) Do it now.
5) Be polite and fair.
6) Enjoy the process.
7) Spend out.
8) Identify the problem.
9) Lighten up.
10) Do what ought to be done.
11) No calculation.
12) There is only love.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Reclaiming my voice

It has been more than 2 years since I published anything on this blog. I have written a few reflections quite abit during this time, but they are mostly in draft versions, probably reflective of the scatteredness of my thought processes, or the ongoing engagement with the topic which has yet found a proper resolve (or is there ever a resolve really?), or just me finding mere words to articulate my thoughts that are waiting to be entertained and possibly verbalised or written. I'm driven to write this post precisely because I can't entirely ignore the nagging voice inside my head, telling me to use writing as a tool to not only express myself, but to reclaim my voice. It is such an insanely noisy world. The constant stream of information from different online platforms not only pull me from various directions, but it spreads my attention too thin that it is impossible to follow one stream of thought, sit on it for awhile, slowly reflect and if possible, articulate it. It is not

Information vs. Knowledge

“To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom. Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.” - Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas This week's key takeaway for me is that; knowledge requires knowing its proper order and place.  Everything else is just information.

Infinity

unbounded to any definitions or limits, existing but not adequately known. this entity, being constantly talked about, pulls like an unbeatable gravitational force. we are always approaching, almost touching, existing in tandem, still, not yet meeting Infinity the eventual meeting where there are no bounds