Pleasure, Joy, and Happiness - Eddie Chacon

Sun, 28/07/24

20:40

Let me start off by saying that I am extremely tired right now. Not the fall on your face and curl up into a ball-type of tiredness. I’m feeling a victorious kind of tired.

The past week has been one of the most intense I’ve had this year. The transition into the next half of the year has been very interesting. I’ve started getting organised. I have a schedule and I’ve been keeping it for the most part of it. This past week I started to break out towards the end, from Wednesday. There were a few struggles with doing the right thing at the wrong time. I need to learn to respect my own boundaries.

There isn’t any kind of journey I haven’t taken this week. I’ve made so much progress at work and in my work. That is most welcome.

I had my long-time friend come visit for the weekend. We worked together to finish The Moments Experiment. We did everything from late nights to very early mornings. A full spectrum journey with joys - some came through challenges at times. 

After seeing him off at the train station, and returning home to spend time with my family, I had a golden experience blossoming in our living room. We listened to the tape together. Cozy and quiet.

I nearly cried when I saw my daughter blow me a chef’s kiss. From that moment onwards there was this stillness that I hadn’t felt in a very long time.

In other news, my friends and I agreed to meet each other once every six months. In June, and in December.

I’ve had a few conversations with money as well… I’m really seeing that I am a spender money type. I’m learning to lean into it and keep having conversations with money. I can feel that there is some more work that needs to be done in my relationship with money. The resistance to change is still there, but it’s much softer this week. Maybe it’s because I spent quite a bit of money, and it relatively felt happy to go where I’ve taken it.

All-in-all, I’ve had a beautiful experience this week, and these past few weeks as we start the second half of the year. I see more triumphs coming.

For the coming week, I am working on rest. I won’t go on sabbatical all the way through. But, the most important thing for me to do is to work on my wife’s birthday gift. That should be exciting enough. Otherwise, I plan to sleep at 9 pm every night and wake up at 6:30 am the next day.

I also intend to make progress on my journey to money happiness. That, and spending a lot of time with my daughter.

Lastly, I appreciate you… thank you for reading this. I hope that this experience has given you what you may have been looking for. As always; I love you. Take care.

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Reflections 28 Jul 24

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