Your Soul Food for Passover, Easter, Ramadan and Earth Month 2023: Languishing or Flourishing, Feast or Famine, Insanity or Immortality, Religious or Secular?

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

What ever happened to Peace, Love and Understanding?
What ever happened to Hope, Agency and Dignity?

This Element is Critical to Human Flourishing- Yet Missing from the News:

If you want to be informed about the world, but not bludgeoned into fatalism, looking for alternative resources that curate stories on human cooperation and ingenuity and want to strip bias from your newsfeed, read on…

Opinion | Most news stories are grim. Here’s the first step toward fixing that. – The Washington Post

Let’s Create the Future of Our Dreams Instead of Our Fears!

Some great resources at The Progress Network

Homepage – The Progress Network

5 WAYS TO MAKE TODAY GREAT:

How you see the world determines the world you see.
That’s why it’s especially important to start each day with a positive perspective.
Remember… positivity is like a muscle, the more we exercise it the stronger it gets.

Today let’s:
1) Attack Today with Enthusiasm – If you want an exciting life, get excited about life. Many of us wake up and just go through the motions. Our lives become routine. It doesn’t have to be like that. Remember your WHY today. We don’t get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.

2) Stay Positive – Instead of focusing on your problems, focus on your purpose. Instead of seeing yourself as a victim, see yourself as a hero. Heroes and victims both get knocked down but heroes get back up, and armed with optimism and a greater purpose they create a positive future.

3) Be Thankful – When you are grateful for the things in your life, big and small, you always seem to find more things to be grateful about.

4) Replace “Have to” with “Get To” – Live life as a gift, not an obligation. We GET TO, we don’t HAVE TO. This simple shift can have a dramatic impact.

5) Be a Blessing to Others – We are blessed to be a blessing. This doesn’t have anything to do with material things (although it can). It’s about loving, serving and caring. It’s about choosing to make a difference in the lives of others each and every day.

8 Ways to Live Longer You’ve Probably Never Linked to Health:
And no, it’s got nothing to do with drinking more water.

8 Ways To Live Longer You’ve Probably Never Linked To Health | HuffPost UK Life (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

For a Small French Town, this 15,000-egg Omelet is a 50-year Tradition:
In Bessières, and in sister cities around the world, the spirit of generosity and community comes in the form of a giant omelet.

France’s giant omelet festival celebrates 50 years of generosity – The Washington Post

Infographic: Why Pets make us Happy!

Infographic: Why Pets make us Happy! – Katzenworld