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A Lesson in Life:
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks you heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS:

Hmm, no doubt about it, that’s a tricky one.
what is happiness – smiles stackedWhen you want to discover how to be happy, it makes sense to first figure out the answer to the question “what is happiness?”.
Having a clear understanding of what is happiness makes it much easier to achieve it.
Also, knowing what the end result looks like means that when you get there, well, you know that you’ve got there!
The answer to that question is not so obvious, obviously. 😉 It’s probably why you’re reading this page.

Definition of Happiness

Let’s take a look at a few potential answers and some of the issues surrounding the idea and the reality of what is happiness.
We can get a sense of the broad range of answers to the question of what is happiness by looking at what dictionaries and encyclopedias give as their definition of happiness. Wikipedia, that venerable goldmine of online information, claims happiness to be “a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.”
On the other hand, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary offers three definitions of happiness, one being “good luck; good fortune; prosperity.” Quite different? I think so. The first one is talking about an inner state, the second is talking about something entirely outside of ourselves.

Authentic Happiness

So if the dictionaries of the world are offering multiple answers, which one is right? Which answer is talking about authentic happiness?
Well, I take it to mean that we get to choose the answer that will give us the best chance of success if we were to take it onboard as our target in life. The answer that gives us control over our own happiness. And as much as we like to think so sometimes, we can’t truly control anything except ourselves.
So there’s a distinction between happiness that’s from the inner, and happiness that’s from the outer (if there really can be such a thing).

Happiness or Pleasure?

There’s another issue of difference too: happiness verses pleasure. There is some debate over the meanings of these words, but for the purposes of this website, happiness is a state of being that we’re striving to make permanent, and pleasure is a temporary sensation or feeling.
I think a lot of people, in their quest to find out how to be happy, mistake pleasure for happiness. There’s nothing wrong with pleasure …as long as you can recognize that it isn’t happiness. You can’t simply string a bunch of pleasurable experiences together and expect to find happiness. (Shame!)

Levels of Happiness

Happiness as a near-constant state of being is what we’re after here, but I would argue that even that kind of happiness isn’t just one kind. There are different levels of happiness, and it’s possible to move between them from hour to hour, day to day, and month to month. In fact, I think it’s the different levels of happiness that keep us on our toes and makes life interesting. Who says being happy all the time has to be boring?!
So to help us answer our question, “what is happiness?” and find our own personal definition of happiness, it helps to think about the levels of happiness we have experienced. First, we can think about the emotions we have when we think we are happy. We can identify feelings that range from contentment to a buzzing excitement; from a peaceful to joyful; from merriment to bliss.

Learned Optimism

It’s fairly well understood that positive people are generally happier than people who tend to see things negatively. The thing is, you don’t always know when you’re being negative. Learned optimism can help. Optimism and pessimism are not just about whether you see the glass half-empty or half-full. It’s what you believe about the causes of positive and negative events in your life.
Do you believe that you passed that test because you studied hard or because you’re clever? The first belief is that a positive event was caused by something that’s temporary or not intrinsic to you. The second focuses the cause of the positive event on your innate qualities.
While each “cause” could actually be true, even at the same time, studies show that believing the second one makes you a happier person overall. The opposite would be true if we were talking about a negative event. It’s possible to change your thought habits and learn to practice optimism, which is one route on the journey of how to be happy.
A final thought to ponder: is happiness an art? Or a science?
There is no wrong answer. 🙂

*Bits & Pieces*
There isn’t much left in this world that offers much yet doesn’t cost a cent. The hug, freely given and recieved, is an exchange between two people expressing shared thoughts and emotions. It costs nothing in the currency of the world nut its returns are many.

1.) It can be used at anytime and is fully refundable.
2.) It can express emotions running the full range from sympathy or despair to happiness or elatation.
3.) It can say “Hello” or “Good-bye” with warmth.
4.) It can tell a friend in trouble, “I really care, can I help?”
5.) It can tell a sick person “I’m here for you please share my stength.”
6.)It has no unpleasant side effects.
7.) It generates good will and elevates self esteem.
8.) It offers comfort and consolation in a warm non-invasive way.
9.) It can simply be a gesture to say “I love you” or “will you be my friend.”
10.)It makes both parties feel cared about and accepted as they are……..!
So Give someone a HUG today!!!!

I think that meditative and inspiring thoughts and words have the power to start a fire in a person’s life.
It can alter the way we see ourselves.

It can change the way we see the world.

It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind; it calls to us, like the wild geese.

It is a magical art, and always has been — a making of language spells designed to open our eyes, open our doors and welcome us into a bigger world, one of possibilities we may never have dared to dream of.

I’ve found that the best way to reconnect with how beautiful life can be is to give something away. It doesn’t have to be anything material.

It can be a compliment, a smile, or a positive intention or thought for someone else.

Sometimes the greatest gift you can give is sincerely giving your presence

“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinary Well”
Anybody who accepts mediocrity-in school, on the job, in life-is a person who compromises, and when the leader
compromises, the whole organization compromises.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Always do your best! What you plant now, you will harvest later.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Do that little more, which is worth all the rest.

“To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way;
to do some things better than they were ever done before;
to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous;
to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements;
to develop resources; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule;
to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection!”

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your “man-womanhood.”
Good enough never is.
If something is exceptionally well-done it has embedded in its very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator
rather than catering to it.
If you plan your best you can win.
The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what your capable of doing.
You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

“It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will
accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals,
for others!”

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you.
Perfection does not exist-you can always do better and you can always grow.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our actions.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least
other people’s idea of that mold.