Tag: have

It’s all a bonus

Posted on by philipdodson

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If you start each day accepting that the past has gone, now is all we have, as the future may or may not happen. Then if you tell yourself that you have everything that you need, a home (well for most of us), some food in the fridge, some money in the bank, clothes on our back. We’ve probably got a job, someone who we love, children, friends and maybe a cat or a dog even.

OK, so we might not have absolutely everything, very few have. Then again we don’t need everything. All we need is acceptance of what we have and to choose to be happy with that.

If we start each day by saying ‘I have everything I need, I am going to focus on what I have, not what I don’t’.

Then anything else in life is all a bonus. It’s amazing how good each day can be with that mindset.

Every step of life is all a bonus because one day the journey will end. It’s just a question of how we look at each step.

We just don’t realise

Posted on by philipdodson

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Sometimes in life we do not realise just how much we have achieved, how much of an amazing journey we have been on.

We often do not stop to see what we have, and I do not mean how big your bank balance is, or the size of the house you live in. I am talking about our families, friends, the places we’ve been, the activities we’ve done, the fun days or nights out, the things that really matter.

Mainly we are stressing about all the things that we do not have, or haven’t done, or could have done better/different…….

It’s what you have that counts, and there is always now to change anything, not in future, as that may not happen. Certainly not in the past, as that is gone.

Now is what matters and what you have.