How to Live a Happy Life

Author: Robbie

Jul 21

How to Live a Happy Life
By Beth Lyons
I have found that the key to happiness really is positive thinking. If you wake up in the morning and you expect good things to happen, they will! Of course this is easy to say and not so easy to do. Positive thinking might mean breaking the habits of a lifetime. So many people want to be happy that their thoughts about their life hold them back.

If you want to know how to find happiness, you’re going about it the wrong way. Happiness is not a place — it is a way of being. It means to live a happy life you have to be happy. And it all begins with your thoughts. This doesn’t have to be a big deal, but start to try to pay attention to your thoughts. Are they sad thoughts? Are they mad thoughts? What goes through your mind on a daily basis? I know some people who are consumed with thoughts of the past. I know other people who are consumed with thoughts about how other people are lucky and get the good breaks. What are your thoughts? And do they make you happy? That might sound crazy, but there’s nothing that stops you from being happy, except maybe you.

Some people find it very helpful to start first thing in the morning with paying attention to their thoughts. When the alarm goes off what is your first thought? Is it: “Oh God, I have to go to work.” Or is it: “I’m in so much pain.” Or some other unhappy thought? I trained myself that when the alarm goes off in the morning, I take a moment to count my blessings. Some mornings unhappy thoughts crowd my thinking and when that happens, I just shake my head and concentrate on counting my blessings. If you are very unhappy even finding one blessing can be a challenge. And so perhaps you can start with feeling thankful that you woke up. If you’re so unhappy that the idea of still being alive does not make you feel better, please seek counseling.

Beth writes more about the key to happiness at Life Visions

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Motivation – the Energy Behind Action

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Jul 12

Many people think motivation is just an emotion, or a thought. Its not! Motivation is the energy behind action.

No motivation and your actions are empty; without substance. However, if you add motivation to your actions, they become powerful and effective.

Motivation is the sister of intent, and together, they make us effective or ineffective people.

How is Motivation Energy?

Motivation begins with a thought or a desire. These thoughts or desires have real energy within them, and they energize whatever they touch. If these are in conversation, they energize your speech and the hearing of those that listen to them. This is a fact.

Every good salesman knows he cannot sell anything unless he is motivated and believes what he is doing is also good for those who buy. If the salesman is not “sold”, he will never sell. Being sold is his motivation energizing his thoughts, speech and finally actions.

The fact that motivation is energy is seen most easily in those people whose task it is, to convince others. You simply cannot convince others unless you are convinced. You cannot be convinced unless you are motivated.

Motivation Dispels Procrastination

Putting things off; a common human trait, is also a cause of a great many human ills and unhappy situations. If you are motivated, however, you “just do it” as the slogan goes, and step by step you eventually progress.

Do not procrastinate. If you do, you’re ideas, your thoughts become impotent, and you become impotent with them.

How to Become Motivated

There is an old prayer, where a saint is walking along with road in his bare feet, his shoes long ruined and discarded. He prayed for shoes. Just then he saw a man without feet! He withdrew his prayer, and thanked God for all his blessings.

You need no more to become motivated than to realize if you are reasonably healthy, and have the basics of life, you are more than well off. Your motivation then should be to be better in what you do, how you look, what you say, and most of all, how you are.

One needs no more than to realize most of the people in the world do not have the basics of life, yet they survive. If you ponded that thought, your motivation comes of itself.

Turning Motivation into Action

This is the easiest part of the discussion. One turns motivation into action by setting goals. Your goals must be somehow realistic, and somehow achievable. They should be (in part anyway) achievable in a reasonable amount of time. Motivation somehow needs some reward, like a horse needing a bit of sugar after working a while.

Your actions, now charged with motivation, and having a destination (goal) are the stuff that built empires. The stuff that put man on the moon, and every other wonderful achievement in man’s history.

You can apply these simple facts in your life, and you will see it improve for the better, no matter what. You must be motivated, and your motivation will energize your actions. An action, energized by motivation, and having a goal has a very large chance of success, regardless of its magnitude.

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