{"id":529057,"date":"2010-04-15T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsalmon.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:55:29","slug":"happiness-tip-cultivate-the-habit-of-zest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529057","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Tip: Cultivate the habit of ZEST!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember how <\/span>in the film American Beauty<\/strong> the young boy appreciates the beauty of an ordinary plastic bag blowing in the wind? He had \u00a0what Bertrand Russell, author of <\/span>The Conquest of Happiness<\/strong>, calls <\/span>\u201cthe\u00a0habit of zest.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

People who cultivate the habit of zest are those who regularly take\u00a0a lively interest in the most mundane of everyday moments and\u00a0see the extraordinary in the ordinary.<\/p>\n

Nobel Prize winner and scientist Daniel Kahneman<\/strong> says we experience\u00a0about 20,000<\/span> individual moments in a day, each \u201cmoment\u201d<\/strong> lasting\u00a0only a few seconds.<\/p>\n

In my layman opinion,<\/strong> whenever you retain a memory, it\u2019s because you\u00a0were appreciating that single moment in time\u2014and were able to freeze-frame it. And…I also believe the more memories you have, the more you are \u201cliving in the\u00a0NOW.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>And the fewer memories you have, the more you are fast-forwarding through life. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bounce Back Assignment:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the\u00a0seemingly trivial. Walt Whitman saw a world of beauty \u201cin a leaf\u00a0of grass.\u201d<\/strong> Notice the colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The\u00a0shadows a vase makes on the table. The interesting faces of the\u00a0people on the bus with you. Not only will you experience a richer\u00a0present, but a month from now you will be able to look back and have\u00a0more happy memories to appreciate. <\/span><\/p>\n

THE ABOVE IS A FREEBIE EXCERPT FROM MY ANTHONY ROBBINS’ PRAISED BOOK: THE BOUNCE BACK BOOK – which has a symbolic red rubber cover on the outside, and inside lots of resliency psychology techniques to empower you to be happy – not matter what your challenges! For more about this book (now in its 4th printing!) clicking this paragraph here, right here, right NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Remember how in the film American Beauty the young boy appreciates the beauty of an ordinary plastic bag blowing in the wind? He had \u00a0what Bertrand Russell, author of The Conquest of Happiness, calls \u201cthe\u00a0habit of zest.\u201d People who cultivate the habit of zest are those who regularly take\u00a0a lively interest in the most mundane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}