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True Happiness is There For the Taking

September 22, 2010 By Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Regardless of what you may have been thinking you can have happiness in your life. If you feel like you are bored with your life, then you are not doing what it is that you should be doing. If you are not doing what you should be doing with your life then it is time to make a change.

If you have ever had goals or dreams and then gave them up for “real” life, you may be frustrated. You may even think you have obstacles or fears holding you back from accomplishing the goals you had. Because of this you are not happy. Well my friend, it is time to get past the obstacles and make your dreams happen.

Your life is yours to live

All of us have a passion about something, be it gardening, child care, rocket surgery, and what have you. Do you know your passion? It is your passion that will bring you true happiness, so you need to discover what your passion is and bring it to fulfillment.

We all are seeking happiness, some of us get temporary highs and think this is happiness, it is close but not good enough. Like the athletes who runs a race, their body gives them a big dose of endorphins, and they feel good. They enjoy the high and think this is true happiness, then the endorphins wear off and so does their happiness.

The way to get your true happiness is to find your passion and do it, both as a way to make you happy and as a career. Every passion has the capability of making money, we should not sit around and avoid our passion because we might think we cannot financially survive on it. We can survive, if we figure out the angle to make it happen we will more than survive, we will thrive.

Seeking out your purpose

One way to discover your passion is to do long hours of therapy and counseling. Another is to get feedback from friends and family as to what they think you are good at, and another is to seek the answer from yourself.

One of the best and cheapest ways to seek the answer from yourself is to meditate. Now don’t go getting all tense because of a word, stay with me for a moment and you will discover a secret.

Many people associate meditation with a religion and so think it is wrong as you would be unfaithful to your religion. Using meditation does not mean you belong to a cult, or some other strange and mysterious sect. Meditation is a tool, nothing more. For those who think they are doing anything religiously wrong are simply missing out on something extremely important.

Meditation can help you bring true happiness into your life, and the practice could be exactly what you need to balance out your life. Meditation is one of the most effective ways to change your well being, and it has been proven that meditation generates brain activity on the left side, which produces a positive emotion in the body.

Your life is your happiness

Seeking answers from your self will lead to better and more productive results. It is your life, and to be happy requires you to live your life the way you want to live it, not the way others think you should no matter how well intentioned they are.

If your mom wants you to work at the post office, and you want to be a rocket surgeon, what will happen to your life if you live like your mom wants you too. Will you be happy, or will your mom be happy? While working for the post office may make a decent living you will not be doing what your passion is, you will not have true happiness.

You, and you alone are inside your skin, and you and you alone feel the emotions that are inside you. If I eat a pizza, do you feel full? You must live for you and your happiness.

Be Blessed

Did you find the information useful? Do you want more good stuff? You can find more about it at my Blog: True Happiness

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The Essential Factor in Happiness

August 18, 2009 By Guest Contributor 1 Comment

By John Vespasian -

There is too much noise in the world and too many offers compete for our attention. Each new song provides us a pleasant melody for a day, each new fashion entertains our spirits for a week. Time seems to be always insufficient for those who are busy chasing the latest novelty. We all want to experience the fresh before it becomes stale an hour later.

We lie ourselves pretending that it has always been like this. We take pride in being the first to adopt the latest change. Faster, quicker, we push forward in unison. If only we could get ourselves to forget the essential questions that superficiality will never address. Acceleration is sugar-coated sedation that can never still our hunger for happiness, but what is the alternative?

In the year 24 B.C., Titus Livius turned 35 years old. He looked back at his life and saw that he had not accomplished much. Like many Romans of good family, he had enjoyed a solid education, read widely, done some travelling and also a little writing. In other words, he had tried his hand intermittently at everything and achieved pretty much nothing.

His life lacked purpose and ambition, but that was not something which bothered any of his friends. Stoicism and hedonism, the prevalent philosophies in Ancient Rome, led most men to live for the pleasures of the day and to regard strenuous effort as a burden to be carried only by servants and slaves.

We do not know what made Titus Livius change his ways, but we do know the results. Instead of continuing to pursue random interests, he conceived a project so difficult and wide-ranging that he knew that it would take him decades to accomplish.

A few months later, he had already formulated in detail how he was going to spend the rest of his life. He would write a History of Rome as it had never been told before. He would speak not only of facts, but also about individuals. He would recount not only past events, but also the values that had inspired them.

The plan designed by Titus Livius comprised researching hundreds of documents and the actual writing of 150 books, an enterprise that nowadays would occupy several university departments. Titus Livius did most of the work himself and it took him four decades.

Apparently, he was very happy devoting his time to such demanding undertaking, even if that entailed doing away with other distractions. Such devotion to a single long-term purpose is an essential element of happiness. When Titus Livius died, he was 77 years old. His only regret must have been that he had not started his project before, since he only managed to complete 142 books.

JOHN VESPASIAN writes about rational living. He has resided in New York, Madrid, Paris, and Munich. His stories reflect the values of entrepreneurship, tolerance, and self-reliance. See John Vespasian’s blog about rational living. http://johnvespasian.blogspot.com/

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Your Core Essence & Your Value System – Keys to Becoming an Extraordinary Leader

June 3, 2008 By Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By Dr. Stephanie A. Parson http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dr._Stephanie_A._Parson

I believe the primary characteristic of a great leader is core essence. A leader must understand that there is a power greater than oneself and that their life purpose is more about others than themselves — their CORE ESSENCE – the fundamental reason for being here. Your CORE ESSENCE is the key element which drives you in doing what you do best. Many have gone on personal journeys to discover why they are here? We’ve all heard of people “trying to find oneself”, in actuality they are searching for their purpose for being here on earth. It’s a journey we all should go on. [Read more...]

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