Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Ten Keys for Finding Happiness


Ten Keys for Finding Happiness


1. Live on purpose. Joyful aliveness connects you with your purpose. Learn
the skills you need to create happiness. Discover the activities and
pursuits that make your heart sing! These engaging activities provide clues
to your purpose and will assist you in finding happiness.

If you want to maintain desperation and unhappiness, then believe that life
has no purpose.

2. Find Happiness right now. No other time exists for experiencing
happiness. Only the present moment contains the spark of life!

You may also create misery by constantly wanting to speed ahead to some
other time. Most people live their lives wanting to exist elsewhere and else
when.

3. Accept total responsibility for your life! You create your reality and
your emotions. Your power and focus exceed your wildest dreams.

You can choose to blame and whine, pretending that your life situation came
from without, rather than from within. As within, so without. Accept total
responsibility for all.

4. Act in boldness. Take on challenges and pursue your goals. Overcoming
difficulties and obstacles provide some of the most exquisite joys in life.

To create misery, play it totally safe. Never do anything scary or risky.
Follow your fears and let them guide your actions. For happiness and joy -
feel the fear, and do it anyway!

5. Expect happiness. Hope consists of a perfect expectation of desirable
things to come. Picture desirable things to come. You choose what to think
about, and what to visualize in your mind's eye! Imagine yourself finding
happiness.

Despair consists of a perfect expectation of undesirable things to come. To
increase despair, simply imagine in detail terrible things that may happen
to you. The better your imagination, the deeper the despair. You get what
you truly expect, so expect happiness.

6. Increase your awareness. Feel your emotions consciously. Identify your
core beliefs. Constantly learn and grow from the inside. Your unhealthy
attitudes, habits, and behaviours will start to drop away like fall leaves.

To maintain apathy and misery, just remain unaware. Allow clarity to flee
from you like a deer from a hunter. Remain in unconsciousness and cloudiness
- afraid to explore your beliefs.

7. Build your connections. Our relationships give life meaning and
happiness. All of us truly connect to one another in the inner world.
Building connections in the physical world builds on this inner reality and
helps us in finding happiness.

To create misery, simply separate yourself from others. Think that you exist
as an independent entity, and other people merely drag you down. Insist on
separateness and division. Deny the truth of connectedness and pursue
unreality.

8. Learn and read regularly. We grow in large measure due to the people we
meet and the books we read. We create happiness when we grow and increase
our wisdom.

To prevent happiness, try not to meet any new people this year, and don't
read any new books either. Simply stay just the same person with the exact
same ideas. For optimal joy, go for optimal growth and learning!

9. Serve other people. Truly recognize other people as real people, with
needs and wants just like your own. Think how you can bring a smile to
someone, and then do it! Give increased life in every encounter. Service is
a huge key for finding happiness in your life.

To create misery, ignore other people and totally concern yourself with your
own needs. Don't think of other people as real.

10. Prioritize your actions. Know your goals and purposes, and put power and
faith into every action. Do each action with focus and purpose, and know why
you choose the activities you expend your energy on.

If you want to decrease joy, simply do as many things as you can each day.
Never think of which tasks connect with your goals, simply busy yourself
with work.


Monday, July 27, 2009

A lesson of life


A lesson of life
Read the following and have a GREAT day!


I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas.

I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.

Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.

'Hello Barry, how are you today?'

'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good.'

'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?'

'Fine.. Gittin' stronger alla' time.'

'Good. Anything I can help you with?'

'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' th em peas.'

'Would you like to take some home?' asked Mr. Miller.

'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.'

'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?'

'All I got's my prize marble here.'

'Is that right? Let me see it' said Miller.

'Here 'tis.. She's a dandy.'

'I can see that. Hmm mmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked.

'Not zackley but almost.'

'Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble'. Mr. Miller told the boy.

'Sure will... Thanks Mr. Miller.'

Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.

With a smile she said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.

When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.'

I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles.

Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.

Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket.

Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes.

Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket.

'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about.

They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size....they came to pay their debt.'

'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho ..'

With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles.

The Moral :
We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Today I wish you a day of ordinary miracles
~ A fresh pot of coffee you didn't make yourself...
An unexpected phone call from an old friend ....
Green stoplights on your way to work...
The fastest line at the grocery store...
A good sing-along song on the radio...
Your keys found right where you left them.

Send this to the people you'll never forget. I just Did....

If you don't send it to anyone, it means you are in way too much of a hurry to even notice the ordinary miracles when they occur.

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

in today's world People are used and things are loved.....

Read on...

"While a man was washing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked stone & scratched lines on the other side of the car.
In anger, the man took the child's hand & hit it many times, not realizing he was using a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father.....
with painful eyes he asked 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?'

Man was so hurt and speechless. He went back to car and kicked it a lot of times.
Devastated by his own actions..... . sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches, child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'.
The next day that man committed suicide. . .

Anger and Love have no limits, Choose the later to have a beautiful & lovely life....

Things are to be used and people are to be loved
,
But the problem in today's world is that People are used and things are loved......



Take care of yourself and all near and dear ones around you.. life if just once.. enjoy it to the best!!!


Achieve your dreams


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