[Barbara's Daily Message] Inside Vs Outside

Is there a battle going on in your life?
Inside versus outside?
Got what you want on the outside but inside everything is lousy?
Got what you want on the inside but everything on the outside is lousy?
Our goal of having inner peace and outer happiness can actually result in a contradiction and can set us up for this battle
Inner peace is about be reasonable with ourselves and aligning our internal thoughts around the ideas for inner peace
Outer happiness is about the actions and activities we take on a daily, weekly, monthly basis that bring happiness to us
Our assumption is that the two things are the same, so having one will bring about the other.
This just isn't true.
They are interdependent, having inner peace will help us towards happiness but peace is not happiness!
Having happiness will help us towards inner peace but happiness is not peace!
If inner peace and outer happiness are your goal
Plan and work on improvements in both rather than just one...

Barbara x
P.S. If you feel you've got neither inner peace or outer happiness work on one of these areas first and then the other.