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.


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