Happiness and Success
Posted 7th January 2015 at 10:58 AM by bobandnanci
Tags happiness, success, success strategy
Happiness is fleeting. It's just not possible to be happy 24/7 but you can move beyond happiness and find your success.
So often we get caught up in the happiness that is professed by Pharrell in his song or "If you're happy and you know it" stuff, that we start to think of ourselves as depressed. I know I did because I just didn't feel like jumping out of bed and singing "zipidee doo dah".
Then, during a power up call that we had for MOBE one morning. JT Debolt was talking about how we have poorly defined what happiness is and that we can raise our baseline and improve our overall happiness level and find more success in our businesses.
Happy and cash flowing - my kind of call. He had my total attention.
He suggests that we do 5 things every day that will improve our happiness level, help our businesses and raise our productivity.
Happiness and generosity go hand in hand
We're not talking about whipping out your checkbook and writing a nice juicy check and handing it over to some charity, there are some real Scrooge's with no generosity bone in their body that do that.
I'm talking about generosity of spirit. To have this you have to make it part of your belief system. It has to be an integral part of your character and come from the inner most part of yourself.
Generous people are compelling people. They see the wealth in the moment and are the light at the end of the tunnel for those who are seeking a way to move forward with their life.
I know, you don't have the time or the money to be generous. All it takes though is a smile, holding the door open for someone, or helping someone load groceries into their car at the store. You will leave a lasting impression and drastically improve someone's life when they least expect it to happen.
See the world as overly abundant and be willing to share it with the people that cross your path during the day.
Be you
Don't worry about what others are doing. You don't have to be a facsimile of other people.
People aren't looking for the flash and dash type of person, they want to be associated with someone who has depth and is connected to their purpose.
Be authentic. Oh sure, there are people that won't like you but that's their problem. We know how awesome we are, right?
Master your heart
I'm not telling you to wrap up your heart and protect it. I want you to get out of your head and feel the intensity of your feelings.
Be intense or joyous in the work that you do. Make it so that it feels right to you when you do it. We're never going to find happiness or success if we don't live our lives our way.
Connect with winners
Start to hang around with winners, go-getters. Winners lift each other up.
Embrace the pain
Remember the part about happiness not being possible 24/7, well life and people are not perfect so there is going to be some rain that falls that you are not going to want to do a Fred Astaire dance through.
Get in touch with what is bothering you and deal with it. The more you stuff it down and refuse to acknowledge that it's there, the longer it is going to hang around.
Happiness and success are possible when you are living your life on purpose and sharing it with the world.
Be sure to leave us your comments below before you leave us today.
So often we get caught up in the happiness that is professed by Pharrell in his song or "If you're happy and you know it" stuff, that we start to think of ourselves as depressed. I know I did because I just didn't feel like jumping out of bed and singing "zipidee doo dah".
Then, during a power up call that we had for MOBE one morning. JT Debolt was talking about how we have poorly defined what happiness is and that we can raise our baseline and improve our overall happiness level and find more success in our businesses.
Happy and cash flowing - my kind of call. He had my total attention.
He suggests that we do 5 things every day that will improve our happiness level, help our businesses and raise our productivity.
Happiness and generosity go hand in hand
We're not talking about whipping out your checkbook and writing a nice juicy check and handing it over to some charity, there are some real Scrooge's with no generosity bone in their body that do that.
I'm talking about generosity of spirit. To have this you have to make it part of your belief system. It has to be an integral part of your character and come from the inner most part of yourself.
Generous people are compelling people. They see the wealth in the moment and are the light at the end of the tunnel for those who are seeking a way to move forward with their life.
I know, you don't have the time or the money to be generous. All it takes though is a smile, holding the door open for someone, or helping someone load groceries into their car at the store. You will leave a lasting impression and drastically improve someone's life when they least expect it to happen.
See the world as overly abundant and be willing to share it with the people that cross your path during the day.
Be you
Don't worry about what others are doing. You don't have to be a facsimile of other people.
People aren't looking for the flash and dash type of person, they want to be associated with someone who has depth and is connected to their purpose.
Be authentic. Oh sure, there are people that won't like you but that's their problem. We know how awesome we are, right?
Master your heart
I'm not telling you to wrap up your heart and protect it. I want you to get out of your head and feel the intensity of your feelings.
Be intense or joyous in the work that you do. Make it so that it feels right to you when you do it. We're never going to find happiness or success if we don't live our lives our way.
Connect with winners
Start to hang around with winners, go-getters. Winners lift each other up.
Embrace the pain
Remember the part about happiness not being possible 24/7, well life and people are not perfect so there is going to be some rain that falls that you are not going to want to do a Fred Astaire dance through.
Get in touch with what is bothering you and deal with it. The more you stuff it down and refuse to acknowledge that it's there, the longer it is going to hang around.
Happiness and success are possible when you are living your life on purpose and sharing it with the world.
Be sure to leave us your comments below before you leave us today.
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