Philosophies on Happiness,
Life and the Power of Attitude…
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THE 13 PRINCIPLES OF HAPPINESS |
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1. Become Positively Self-ish
When you take care of yourself first, you build a foundation for stronger relationships with others,
increase your capacity, and reduce doubt.
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2. Live Your Values
Clearly identify and proclaim your personal values through the way you live and work. You are more likely to spot opportunities when you know what they look like.
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3. Live for Life, not Stuff
Let go of possessions, roles, lifestyles that others and a marketing-hyped society impose on you; focus instead on what truly brings you Joy.
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4. Be Early
Whether it is project deadlines, appointments, or learning opportunities, get there before you are expected, and watch your stress load decrease exponentially.
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5. Build Reserves
Identify what worries you, and work to create extra in your life, whether that is money, personal space, or extra toilet paper in the cabinet.
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6. Tolerate Nothing
Continually identify and eliminate all the little “stuff” which causes you friction and drains your energy.
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7. Choose to Respond
What happens is going to happen, regardless. Accept constant, discontinuous change as reality and instead of reacting, respond with curiosity.
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8. Stimulate Your Development
Surround yourself with environments and people that continually challenge you, energize you, and literally pull you forward. Have adventures.
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9. Pay Attention
When we are on auto-pilot, life just happens around us. Look. Listen. Notice. The sunset in
your own backyard can be just as wondrous as the one at the beach..
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10. Simplify
Automate, delegate, or eliminate tasks or goals that complicate your life. Being content with simpler pleasures increases your opportunity for awe.
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11. Speak the Truth
Stop playing games. Recognize that though the truth may sometimes sting, it is the starting place for all progress. Challenge others to see the truth.
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12. Focus on Today
Waiting for something to happen “tomorrow” in order for you to be happy is like watching yourself in the mirror and saying “You go first.”
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13. Be Authentic
Be yourself, not somebody else. When the Real You shows up, connections are easy.
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“Happiness is a decision anyone can make” |
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ATTITUDE
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"A
happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
--Hugh Downs
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"You
cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can
tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations."
--Zig Ziglar, American Author & Motivational Speaker
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"Send
flowers to the living. When I die, leave orders to have
flowers sent to all my survivors!"
--Maggie Bedrosian, author
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"Develop
an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything
that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is
a step toward achieving something bigger and better than
your current situation."
- Brian Tracy, Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
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"Everything
you need you already have. You are complete right now,
you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person
on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be
understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as
your own personal reality."
--Wayne Dyer, American Psychotherapist, Author & Lecturer
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Attitude
By Charles Swindoll
The longer I
live, the more I realize
the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important thatn facts.
It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances,
than failures, than successes, than what people
say or think or do. It is more important
than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will
make or break a company, a church, a home.
The remarkable thing is we have choice every
day regarding the attitude we will embrace
for the day. We cannot change our past…
We cannot change the fact that people
will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the
one string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens
to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you. We are in charge
of our attitudes.
I've carried
Charles Swindoll's poem in my wallet since March 28,
1995, the day my youngest brother lost his battle with
leukemia. He taught us all that no situation is intolerable
if we have a positive attitude.
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YOU
CAN DO IT
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're
qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish,
to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it
takes! But you can't blame other people or society in
general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible
we realize we are special people.
--Jan Ashford
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"Resentment
is like taking poison and hoping the other person will
die."
--Unknown
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We
create our own reality
A story that took place in the East is told of a young
man who came to an oasis. He asked an old man by the well,
"What kind of people live here?"
The old man asked, "What kind of people lived in
the place where you just left?"
"They were a bad lot," replied the young man.
"I was glad to leave them."
"You'll find the same here," said the old man.
Later another man came by the oasis and he asked the old
man the same question. The old man also asked him about
the people who lived in the town he had just left.
With a smile on his face, "They were great people.
Honest. Friendly," said the young man.
"You'll find the same here," replied the old
man.
A friend who was with the old man asked how he could give
two completely different answers to the same question.
The old man explained, "Each person carries within
him the environment in which he lives. No matter where
we go people are the same. People are to us what we ourselves
find in them."
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LIFE
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"Take
the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions.
Never know too much to learn something new."
-- Og Mandino, Motivational Author & Speaker
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"When
you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced
courses of action you should take-choose the bolder."
--William Joseph Slim, 1891-1970 British Field Marshall
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Challenge
Your Assumptions
All innovation seems to have come from challenging assumptions,
while retaining the best of what was currently working.
What assumptions are you making now about the way you
do business... or live your life.....that bear deeper
scrutiny? What if what you think is "true" is
just a perspective, and that there are numerous, if not
infinite, other viable perspectives possible?
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Pick
one thing you accept as "true" and choose to
step outside of it, challenging the assumptions made in
support of it. If it really is true, then your belief
in it will be stronger and more powerful for the scrutiny.
If not, you may find another perspective that serves you
better.... and more effectively.
--"Curious George" Copsey, Speaker, Professional
Certified Coach
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The
Power of Believing in Yourself
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death.
I searched my larger values, and I asked myself, if I
was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing
or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I
hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had
done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially
a good person, although I could have been better - but
at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care.
This much I knew: I believed in belief, for its own shining
sake. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief
is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics.
To believe, when all along we humans know nothing can
cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy
for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery.
To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors,
believing in the treatment, believing in whatever I chose
to believe in, that was the most important thing, I decided.
It had to be. Without belief, we would be left with nothing
but and overwhelming doom, every single day. I didn't
fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against
the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily
against the slow lapping of cynicism. Dispiritedness and
disappointment, there were the real perils of life, not
some sudden illness or cataclysmic millennium doomsday.
--From "IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE" by Lance Armstrong
with Sally Jenkins
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