Same post as before but with some revisions for the sake of clarity.
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Pause a moment…
If you’re at home, look around; take it all in. Notice your response. Are you o.k. with what you see; with what it makes you feel? Is it what you really want? (You could do this exercise with any area of your life.)
Chances are that for most of you the quick answer, if not an emphatic yes, would be some variation of “maybe”, “sure”, or “I guess so”. And that may be the extent of it. You move on to more pressing matters; you forget about it, although not completely.
You may find yourself drifting off, day dreaming; or maybe in your boredom you flip through magazines, online collections of photos, videos, slide shows, etc.. For most of us, desire for something better eventually overcomes our tolerance for the disagreeable. At some point our attention gets drawn to pleasure.
We all…
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