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Happiness Defined
Yin and Yang of Happiness
"Finding
happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find
happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a
process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to
happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your
life over the long run."
–
David Leonhardt
Life-Business
Synergy
Happiness is not about life-business balance, it's about
Life-Business Synergy.
Successful people
win because they love what they do. Actually, your noble
passion
is your mission. If you find your true
passion
and devote yourself
to it, you’ll find harmony and
happiness
in your life. You’ll be achieving
great results continually and effortlessly .

Find the Balance
Balance
is a key element of a happy life
and
sustainable business.
Yin (passive,
receptive) and Yang (active, creative) are both opposing forces and
complementary pairs.
Problems
arise not when the two forces are
battling, but when there is an imbalance between them in the
environment.
Conflicts, business problems,
health disorders, divorce,
and other problems – all can be attributed to disharmony in the forces
of
Yin and Yang...
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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you." – Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Creativity Quotes
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy
of
achievement, in the thrill of
creative effort."
– Franklin Roosevelt...
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Inspirational
Business Plan: True Love
Values Being Created:
"We live in this world when we love it." –
Rabindranath Tagore...
Market Analysis: "Our home is not where we live, it is where we
love."
–
Vadim Kotelnikov...
Marketing Strategy:
"Life is the flower
for which love is the honey."
– Victor Hugo...
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Humorous
Business Plan: Success in Love
Brief History:
"Men
always want to be a woman's first love –
women like to be a man's last romance." –
Oscar
Wilde...
Milestones completed and future plans:
"Man begins by
loving love and ends by loving a woman.
Woman begins by loving a man and ends by
loving love."
–
Remy De Gourmount...
Growth
Strategy: "If men
knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring."
–
Alphonse Karr...
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Humorous
Business Plan: Successful
Marriage
Values being created:
"I never knew what real
happiness was until I got
married and by then it was too late."
–
Max Kauffman...
Brief history:
"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we
met!" –
Rodney Dangerfield...
Marriage
management skills:
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband." –
Montaigne ...
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Choose To Be Happy
The only source of happiness – and unhappiness
– comes from inside yourself.
Happiness is not something that comes to you.
It is
something you create now, today.
Waiting for something to change
in order to be happy is waiting to live your life.
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is
how you react to what happens to you. It is your
attitude. When you adopt a
positive attitude,
life becomes a rewarding adventure instead of something to get through.
If You Get Stuck in a Traffic Jam
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If you get stuck in a
traffic jam while going on a date, smile! Remember that "absence makes
the heart grow fonder"...
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Be the Best Possible
10 Tips by
Ten3 NZ Ltd.
I've
Learned...
By: Andy Rooney
I've learned....
That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
I've learned....
That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the
happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it...
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Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life
Positive
emotional energy is the key to
health,
happiness and
wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life
will be in every area...
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8-step Emotional Transformation Recipe
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Accept
full responsibility for the emotion. Even if you
don't fully believe it right now, tell yourself, "I Create
My Reality, and I am Creating this Emotion Right Now".
Usually, people never get beyond step one because they
actually believe that outer circumstances are causing their
emotions...
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Knowing What You Want
Do you have a dream? Do you
want something to change in your life?
Not knowing what you
want can be a confusing, frustrating and miserable time. Discover what it is
that you want,
what goals will
make you happy.
Knowing Your Higher Self
Like everyone, you want joy, happiness and life purpose. "But the problem
is, most people are looking in all the wrong places. Career. Money.
Relationships. Power. Yet, esoteric teachings claim all answers lie
within you. They describe a secret jewel inside within the heart. The
treasure of infinite value. The divine essence called...
The Higher Self."4
Buddhism about Happiness
"The first step in seeking
happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and
behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful. We must
also realize that these negative emotions are not only very bad and harmful
to one personally, but are also harmful to society and the future of the
whole world," teaches Dalai Lama.
Everyone wants to be
happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real
causes of happiness and suffering. We tend to look for happiness outside
ourselves, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right
job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our
time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes.
All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and things that
make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found
pure and lasting happiness.
It is time we sought happiness from a different
source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must
lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and
peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if
it is impure and unpeaceful we can never be truly happy, no matter how hard
we try to change our external conditions. We could change our home or our
partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind
we shall never find true happiness.
Case
in Point
The Dalai Lama's
Approach
Dalai Lama
believes
that happiness can be
achieved through compassion and training the mind.
From his perspective there is an inextricable link between one's own
personal happiness and kindness and caring and compassion towards others.
It's not only from the Dalai Lama's perspective
–
from his particular view of life and Buddhist philosophy
–
but also from the scientific standpoint that shows that happy people are
much more likely to show compassion.
What's remarkable is this amazing link
between happiness and kindness towards others. Happier people are more
likely to help the other person. But the Dalai Lama feels that it works the
other way around as well.
That the deliberate cultivation of kindness and
compassion and caring and tolerance and forgiveness and these type of things
will make one a happier person.
Dalai Lama's approach to achieving happiness
begins with distinguishing between spirituality and religion. To have a
spiritual dimension in your life, you should appreciate your potential as a
human being and recognize the importance of inner transformation through a
process of mental development.
The art of happiness has many components. It
begins with developing an understanding of what are the truest sources of
happiness and setting your priorities in life based on the cultivation of
those sources. "It involves an inner discipline, a gradual process of
rooting out destructive mental states and replacing them with positive,
constructive states of mind, such as kindness, tolerance, and forgiveness."2
Balance is a key element of a happy life.
Knowing You Are Competent and Capable
Being inwardly happy (knowing you are competent and capable) automatically
improves levels of quality and excellence in your work. Understand
that inner happiness only comes about via
Self esteem + Self respect +
Personal Pride. Get these ingredients right and with careful written
planning the rest will simply fall into place...
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The Importance of Values and Mission
The clearer you are about what you
value and
believe in, and what you stand for, the happier and more effective you will
be. The values you choose for yourself, and the order of priority you place on
your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work...
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Case
in Point
Bertrand Russell about Happiness
"There is not law of nature guaranteeing that
mankind should be happy. Everybody can see that this is true of our life
here on earth, but by a curious twist our very sufferings in this life are
made into an argument for a better life hereafter. We should not employ such
an argument in any other connection. If you had bought ten dozen eggs from a
man, and the first dozen were all rotten, you would not infer that the
remaining nine dozen must be of surpassing excellence; yet that is the kind
of reasoning that "the heart" encourages as a consolation for our sufferings
here below."1
The Cause of Unhappiness...
Five Key
Aspects of Happiness...
Components of
Inner Happiness...
Do What You Love and Share With Others...
Your Intention...
Breaking Free of Routine...
Rules of Self-motivation...
Emotional
Intelligence (EI)...
The Power of
Passion...
The Power of Confidence...
Creating Positive Energy...
Creative Visualization...
Your
Talents...
Four Steps to
Achievement...
Creativity and
Happiness...
Resources You
Need to Achieve Your Goal...
Dealing with
Routine – the Most Powerful Obstacle...
One Hour Makes All Difference...
The Importance of Your Values and
Mission...
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