Minute Explorations: deciding to be happy

Hello hello and Good Morning and Happy Monday listeners! Coach Kate here starting a fresh new week of Minute Explorations together with you all! I host this space weekday mornings where we dive into motivations, quotes, literature and more to get your day started with some wisdom in just a few minutes. If that is your vibe, then feel free to give me a follow for alerts and updates in this space, and to be a part of our conversation here weekday mornings with me. Today, I have a beautiful short quote from a philosopher, writer, poet activist of the French Enlightenment era: François-Marie Arouet, or most commonly known under his pen name, Voltaire. He was known for his wit, his writings, and for challenging some wide held beliefs of the time. He put out numerous works from poetry to plays to political commentary, so many of his quotes live on to this day. Including this one that I thought I'd share with you all to get these last few days of April started. So here it is:"The most important decision you will ever make is to be in a good mood" - VoltaireEmotions are very powerful things, so powerful in fact we often forget we get to choose to empower them... or not. It can feel almost impossible to have a strong emotion and not attach an action or even reaction from it-- but the emotion does not make the choice, we do. We have the choice every day to decide how we are going to face the world, interpret it, and interact. So if we choose to be in a good mood, and work that out like a muscle every day, we'll see that the world also chooses the good for us too. So this fine, wonderful Monday at the end of April, don't be afraid to tell yourself that this is a good day, and it's up to you to embrace it as such. You get to decide that it's a good mood day, that it is a happy day, that is is a wonderful day to share your light and your talents and your energy to the rest of the world. So go make it yours, and make it good.I'm Coach Kate, thank you so much for listening today. If you liked what you heard, feel free to give me a follow. You can also listen to any of my past talks underneath the talk tab in my profile. See you all again tomorrow.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit katebomb.substack.com