Day 5 - Way 5

Friday.....what a great, but long day. I had to make a few decisions today about my priorities, but I feel like I am still on the right track. I've been doing a ton of research lately about "new media" which basically means all of the recent applications mobile or online that allow people and businesses more opportunities to connect with the right audience to find or to provide products and services. This has allowed me to come across two interesting publications that both discussed the same topic in a round about way. The first was a book about marketing with new media. There is a section that describes online videos and how they can become viral(i.e. ok go! "treadmill song). They spread like wildfire without promotion or force from the source. The other book talked about a little pig that decided it wanted to be a happy pig, and it began spreading happiness everywhere it went. Then one day the pig had too much happiness in him and it began to seep out of him and leak to all the other pigs until the love that all the pigs felt was too much for all the pigs and it spread to all the lambs and the chickens. The reason these two stories meant so much to me today was not known until my parents arrived home from the MTC and my mother said that she thought my blog posts seemed so optimistic. The reason behind that I believe, is my understanding of how our choices influence our consequences. When you choose happiness over sadness or bitterness, your consequence or your reward will be further happiness, until there is no more room inside you and it must spread to others. The blessing for today is that. That if you choose to find joy even when it seems there is nothing to be joyful about, the one thing you will end up with is.......joy.