be here. now.

Being present in the moment is a constant challenge for me. With all the busyness of mothering and thinking about the shop and being a wife, daughter, sister, etc. it is quite difficult for me to just be present and immersing myself in the present.

But when I get myself to do just that, I find that everything else diminished and I usually just feel immense gratitude of being alive and doing whatever I am doing at that moment.

As usual, the printable file can be downloaded from here. Please do a right-click and save-as. :)

have good thoughts

The third sunday (I tried to upload this every Sunday), printable can be downloaded here (right click, save as). Enjoy. :)

cloud atlas

I've just finished watching the movie Cloud Atlas, and I am truly impressed with the brilliance of the story. I'm still reading the book.

And I like this snippet from wikipedia:

Ewing writes that history is not governed by rules, but outcomes. And outcomes are precipitated by vicious and virtuous acts. And those acts are precipitated by belief. If we believe in the Ladder of Civilization, that's what we will get. But someday a purely predatory world will consume itself. Devil take the hindmost until the hindmost is the foremost. Selfishness in a species leads to extinction. He imagines his father's response to becoming an Abolitionist, he would warn Adam that his life would amount to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops," is Adam's proposed reply.

Sometimes I do feel that my life is just a little drop in a limitless ocean. This is a good reminder indeed. :)

start with the end in mind

Start with the end in mind. :) The printable poster can be downloaded from here, please do a right-click and save-as.

follow your joy

A lot of us are confused in searching for a path to walk on in this earthly adventure. There were just too much directions (from people around us) to follow. They will suggest that this path have the best view, that one will give you the most money, the other one will make you famous, or don't follow that road, you'll be poor and hungry. And being an inexperience wanderer, we got confused.

So far, I found out that the best advice is simply: follow your joy.

Do what you love. Find the activity that gives you joy. That great delight and pleasure that comes from doing what you do will be the fuel that propel you forward to the path that gives you more joy. It will be your source of strength too in facing each challenge that you find along the way. Follow your bliss, follow your joy, follow your heart, find your own path, and you will have a healthy dose of daily joy along the way.

Download the free 8 x 10 inches printable here (please do a right click and save as).