The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

236 BRIANNA WIEST
wolf that wins is the one that you feed, and when it comes
to the quality of your life, you need to be extremely careful
of what you allow yourself to think. It will soon become
what you feel, then what you believe, and then how you
behave, and sure enough, the way you live.
SCHEDULE TIME TO DO NOTHING
Happiness is an active pursuit as much as it is a passive
one. Though to feel fulfilled each day is absolutely a conscious
choice (it isn’t going to happen by accident, FYI)
the irony of really feeling good is that it’s not something
you can force; it’s something you have to allow.
Happiness is refusing to fill your schedule to the absolute
brim so you can wring the most you possibly can out of
every second of your life. It is also taking time to embrace
the mundanity of everyday moments. It’s sitting back and
reading a book, talking over dinner with someone you
love, or just enjoying the small things each day. Taking
this time won’t happen on its own; you have to plan for it.
SCHEDULE TIME TO PLAY
When we were kids, all we did was imagine and play. Our
lives were our canvases, and we inherently understood
that we could make believe absolutely anything and spend
the day living it out.