Feel Good About Your Life and Be Happy

Sometimes people feel that they are controlled by external circumstances.  But the fact is that your life is largely determined by your own personal choices and decisions in every area.  You are where you are and what you are because of yourself.  You have gotten yourself to where you are as the result of the choices and decisions that you have made in the past.  If you want to be somewhere else in the future, it is up to you to make new and better choices and decisions in the present.

Action–Defined

One of the most important discoveries in 20th century thought has been the central role of the actions that you take.  An action is defined as something with a consequence.  Using this definition, even an inaction can be considered to be an action, because inaction, or a failure to act on your part, has a consequence that can dramatically impact your life.

For example, a person who fails to finish school, or fails to read regularly, or to listen to audio tapes and take additional training, is committing to what you might call an “inaction.”  But because it has devastating consequences on the future for that person, it can be considered an action as well.

The most important actions that you take in determining the quality of your life revolve around the virtues and values that you decide to embrace and live by.  They are as important to your life as breathing in and breathing out.  The fact is that everything that you do is largely determined by what you feel to be good and right and true about life and people-your values!

When you are living consistent with your values, you feel good about yourself.  When you are living inconsistent with your values, you feel badly about yourself.

Be Happy and Feel Good

Aristotle, perhaps the greatest of all the philosophers, broke new ground in thinking when he determined that all of human action is aimed at achieving the happiness of the individual.  He said that we are all the same in this one respect.  We all seek happiness, however we define it.  Everything you do is merely a step in the direction of achieving the ultimate happiness you seek. Aristotle did not stop there.  He went on to point out that only the good can be happy, and only the virtuous can be good.  Therefore, all happiness is determined by the ability of the individual to establish and live by values and virtues that are life enhancing.

From the earliest days of civilization, the purpose of an education was to instill values into the character of the young.  For the first 200 years of American historical development, it was understood that the purpose of the schools was to teach values and the purpose of the home was to teach religion.  Young people were instructed by reading the stories, poems and plays of men and women in previous time periods who most demonstrated and illustrated the values by which that person should live if a person wanted to have a happy life.

Aristotle went on to point out that, if you have been brought up without clear values, you can develop values by deciding upon the kind of person you want to be and then by acting as if you had the values that that person would have.

Sculpt Your Life and Your Future

The wonderful thing about being a human being is that you are free to shape and sculpt your own character.  You can make new choices and decisions at any time of life, especially with regard to your values, and begin acting as if you had those values already.

Perhaps the measure essence of happiness is your ability to achieve the three common goals of self-respect, self-esteem and personal pride that everyone wants.  It is only when you have these three in sufficient quantities that you feel really good about yourself.

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Feel Good About Your Life and Be Happy

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Dream Big: Live Your Life without Limits

The basic rule for success is for you to continue to remind yourself that you are where you are, and what you are because of yourself.  You are in your current situation because you have decided to be there.  You have made the individual choices and decisions that have gotten you to your current place in life.  If you want to go somewhere else or be someone else, it is totally up to you to make the choices and decisions today that will eventually get you there.  And there are no limits.

Positive Thinking Will Change Your Life

Here is another rule:  “If you want your life to get better, you have to get better.”  This simply means that your outer world will be a reflection of your inner world.  If you want your outer world to improve, you must go to work on improving your inner world.

If you want to have better customers and more sales, you must become a better and more personable salesperson.  If you want to have better employees, you must become a better manager.  If you want to have better children, you must become a better parent.  And if you want to have better relationships, you must become a better person.  The great tragedy is that the world is full of people who are trying to change the outside world without going to work on the one thing that they can control, their own thinking!

Change Your Thinking

Here is another rule:  “If you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life.”  And since you can change the quality of your thinking almost infinitely, there are no limits on how you can change and improve every part of your life, in any direction you want to go.

There is a lot of talk today about “positive thinking,” and I think that positive thinking is very important.  It is much better for you to think positively about yourself and your possibilities than for you to think negatively.  But the danger is that positive thinking can quickly turn into positive wishing and hoping.  Positive wishing and hoping can turn a person into a very optimistic and happy failure.  Abraham Mallow said that the story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short, and settling for far less than that for which they are capable.  Don’t let this happen to you.

The Power of Positive Knowing

What is better than positive thinking is “positive knowing.”  This is where you take the steps and do the things that bring you to the point where you absolutely know, with complete certainty, that you can achieve your goals and be the kind of success that it is possible for you to be.  When you reach the point of positive knowing, no matter what happens in the outside world, even if you lose everything you have acquired, you will make it all back again, and more, because you know how to do it in the first place.

I want to share some ideas with you that have been very helpful to me and to many thousands of other highly successful men and women.  These are all ways of thinking and looking at your world that will enable you to become a far more optimistic, confident, and creative individual in everything you do.  These are simple, powerful, proven techniques that you can use to throw off your self-imposed limits and begin moving toward the realization of your full potential.

Dream Big, You Have No Limits

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same.  It is for you to, “dream big dreams.”  There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations and begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become and have and do.

A wise man once said, ” You must dream big dreams for only big dreams have the power to move the minds of men.”  When you begin to dream big dreams, your level of self-esteem and self-confidence will increase immediately.  Your self-image improves.  You feel more positivel about yourself and your ability to deal with whatever happens to you.  The reason so many people accomplish so little is because they never allow themselves to let go and just imagine the kind of life that is possible for them.

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