7. Keep learning and exploring. Vacation broadens our horizons… no reason to stop now. Take a class, go to a workshop, hire a personal spiritual guru…let’s do something to keep stretching our thinking and imagining. Keep growing…. Ultimately, life is too short to spend most of it doing some- thing that crushes your soul week after week or becoming so imbalanced doing it that the rest of your life is incredibly unhappy. If we are limited to just a few weeks of vacation every year or less…you do the math; that’s a lot of unhappy we are trying to dump out in an intense time only to return to unhappy. So fi nally, we can focus on these last few tips to insure we are making the most of our post vacation life:
8. We can notice what we regularly give, say or do to please others in our lives in order to validate our worthiness. These things usually make others very happy but do little to fulfi ll us. But if we consistently fi nd ourselves compromising our own truths (things that make us feel most authentic in thought, behavior and nature) to keep the peace, please others, or secure our worthi- ness, we will eventually suffer from soul crushing imbalance in our own lives. Here’s how you notice: everybody’s happy BUT us. We aren’t truly fulfi lled because we’ve never gotten in touch with what really makes US happy. Isn’t it time to fi gure that out…what felt good on vacation? What did you daydream about or indulge in while away that made you feel great? What have you convinced yourself you could never do but really want to? It may be time to use your vacation dream time to start making some life changes.
9. Our family time often seems to improve when we are on vaca- tion together and we seem to have so much more fun; really laughing and playing and paying attention to each other. We can ask ourselves what might be missing in our ‘everyday’; what aren’t we making time for? Are our relationships suffering? Is it family time, friends, time for play, time for hobbies, physical re- lease? What are we not allowing ourselves to see, explore, take part in or be? Are we taking on a different, more serious persona in our everyday lives, full of responsibility and stress and devoid of fun? It’s so important to be our authentic selves…can we al- low ourselves to be real every day?
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10. And fi nally…in terms of happiness…are we making happiness a decision each day or are we attaching our happiness to what is happening in our lives? When we realize that happiness does not come to us but comes from us, it makes all the difference in our lives. When we know that we are the creator of our own happiness we don’t have to wait for vacation to enjoy our lives. Each moment becomes happy, no matter where we are, what we are doing or who we are doing it with. We begin to see beauty everywhere and understand there is meaning in even the most mundane activities. Every moment becomes precious. We notice how happy we feel on vacation…how wonderful to know that happiness is not a temporary, few weeks a year, commodity, rather a state of mind available to you year-round!
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