CLARITY CREATES SIMPLICITY

Most of us have to-do lists. Many of us have long terms goals. Few of us have a list of how we actually want to feel in our life. Yep, it is also the parts of integrity.

And aren’t feelings the whole point? The income, the relationship, the hot body’, the high thread count cotton sheets - everything on our to-do, to-get, to-experience lists all drive back to the feelings that we crave … connected, comfort, powerful, rich in love and cash, beauty, vitality, useful, calm.

And so it goes that a solid make-it-happen strategy should be grounded in the awareness of how you want to feel. It’s the elemental point that most action plans and goal setting systems overlooked. Each feeling is a beacon that attracts a reality. Love attracts love. Gratitude attracts more reasons to be grateful. Generosity creates a generous response. What we focus on expands. So choosing to focus on feelings that, well, feel good, is a sure way to create the experience you want.

The last night of lunar New Year, refuse putting my ass on the shuttle bus and rash to move, I rambled around on the road, lonely. It definitely is a beautiful night; I can’t find a certain position to fix my eye, flashing flame and blazing firecrackers blasted everywhere, even the tiny corner has been crowded with exciting guys, children, adult, elders, it is the fireworks light the flowery night piece, it is the passion intrigue the whole city’s dream. So fantastic it is, you can’t hear, can’t breath, even you dare to move, you have a deeply feeling that where I am, the war field, if not why I hear tens of thousands cannon-shot explosive, am I being injured? Are the aliens attacking the city? Devastated, plague, nuclear weapons, death toll, running through the whole city, I just funned myself and keeping move along the North Fourth Ring station by station. Suddenly, most of the similar scenes occur to me as if the feeling was hanged out to so many years ago by a time machine, I saw the mirth, the moon again. As Echo said, the same moon, the same splashing flame probably,

When you’re clear on how you want to feel, you can be open to what life wants to give you. You’ll be anchored to the function, rather than the form. And this is really the essence of simplified living - a focus on what matters most. The house, the partner, the job may not “look” like you wanted, or come when you expected, but if something or someone generates the positive feelings you’ve been longing for, you’ll be able to let that good stuff into your life.

When you’re clear on how you want to feel you instinctively know what to say yes to, and when to say, “no, thank you.” And that’s the best feeling in the world.