1678: 3 Ways to Sit with Wonder by Danae Smith of This Wondrous Life on How To Get Grounded in Gratitude

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Danae Smith of This Wondrous Life shares 3 ways to sit with wonder. Episode 1678: 3 Ways to Sit with Wonder by Danae Smith of This Wondrous Life on How To Get Grounded in Gratitude Danae Smith is East Coast born and raised, but a West Coast girl at heart, She is the founder of This Wondrous Life, a lifestyle blog, rooted in pursuing a life lived simply, slowly, and with community. Over the years, Danae has found her heart pulled so strongly towards living a slower, more simple life. In a time where we are inundated with the message of instant gratification; where success is defined by numbers and accolades, and social media has begun to define how we live our lives, She desires to build a space and create a culture that shows another way - a more simple and slow approach to life. The original post is located here: https://thiswondrouslife.com/twl/3-ways-to-sit-with-wonder Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 1678.
0:03.3	Three ways to sit with Wonder by Denise Smith of thiswondrouslife.com,
0:08.8	and I'm just a molecular personal narrator reading to you every day, including all days.
0:12.9	Usually from blogs, sometimes from books, covering productivity,
0:16.1	happiness, living a meaningful life, all that fun stuff.
0:19.7	And today featuring another new author for the show, I'll tell you about her right after the
0:23.6	reading, so for now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:31.8	Three ways to sit with Wonder by Denise Smith of thiswondrouslife.com.
0:38.4	It's hard sitting with Wonder as this month moves forward I've found myself challenged with our
0:43.4	focus. Eleven days in and the last thing I feel like I've been doing is sitting with Wonder.
0:48.7	It's no easy feat to sit and be with Wonder is to make the conscious choice and effort.
0:54.1	It's slowing down and breathing deep when every part of you wants to rush.
0:58.5	While I feel I haven't been actively sitting with Wonder, I have been thinking about what it could
1:02.3	look like. Wonder by definition is a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration caused by
1:08.2	something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable. As a verb it's to desire or to be
1:15.2	curious to know something, feel admiration and amazement to marvel.
1:20.1	Mulling over these definitions unchallenged, the way of you wonder is all of these,
1:24.9	but taking it from the unknown to the known. How do you stay in wonder with the familiar?
1:30.1	How do you stay in wonder with the mundane? How do you sit with it, engage with it, know it?
1:35.7	I don't think Wonder is relegated to just wants, surprising or exciting. I don't think Wonder is
1:40.5	just for the new and deeply anticipated. I think it's for where you are right now, deep in the
1:45.6	familiarity of your daily life. So how do we do this? How do we sit with and know wonder where we are?
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