My Family: Personal Reflection

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Taking the time to acknowledge the present is a difficult thing for me to do. My strength has been to be a great planner and anticipate issues before they occur. To think about three good things means that I literally have to stop thinking about the future and realize that the past or present has occurred on how it impacted me. By thinking about the good things, it allowed me to mentally relive the positive feelings and brought a smile to my face. It wasn’t an inner peace experience, but rather a more content feeling. One that feels good, but was short lived once life and the things around me come back into focus.
The other dilemma that occurred was that I started to “think” about the good things. This is my nature state of processing. Soon I realized that I need to “feel” the good things if I truly wanted to see how this exercise could offer an alternative impact in my life. Thus, I tried to center my thoughts and push them aside while allowing the feelings to move from second nature to the forefront of my state of mind. My daily exercise of reflecting upon the three good things that impacted my day became an exercise that concluded the day itself. After a long day at work, I would close my door and think about what I was grateful for and what made me happy. …show more content…

This happiness is much different than my personal happiness. Instead of “thinking” about what makes me happy, my family happiness is the result of how I “feel”. This reflection is purely an external view of what makes me happy. An example of my family happiness is the fact that every Sunday I have dinner with my wife and parents. They are up there in years and I show up early to dinner to work around their house before dinner is served. It allows them to get things done in the house they can no longer do and by making me dinner, they feel that there is reciprocity for the

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