Many times people will ask me the “secret” to positivity. It’s of no surprise that there aren’t any secrets… but there are a few practices that studies have shown that positive and optimistic people have in common—none of which more strongly so than the seemingly simple practice of giving thanks.
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Small Moments Lead To Big Lives
This photo was taken on one of my many hikes in the hills—and I just fell in love with it. As I was hiking through nothing but grass, I spotted one single flower. Not anywhere around that day, nor since, have I seen another. Its splendor seemed amplified with its brilliant purple hue, naked stem, piercing upwards through the green grass into the blue skies. Sometimes we feel as though we are the only ones, yet we fail to notice the beauty in this—the deep knowing that where there is one, there might grow to be more. And, in the moment that we are but solitary, we can shine in such brilliance that the world has yet to see.