Five Ways to Build Happiness
"If you want to
be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy,
and inspires your
hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie
(1835-1919)
American Industrialist/Businessman
Without a
doubt, the most common search in the world is the search for happiness. Many believe that happiness can be found by
first finding the right keys. They look
for money, thinking money will make them happy.
They look for love, thinking love will make them happy. They look for power, position, careers,
education thinking they will make them happy.
Perhaps the saddest of all are those who seek out the darker things like
drugs, alcohol, crime, sex and the like, thinking they will bring
happiness. None of these ever do and the
disappointment is more than many can bear.
Does this mean that happiness is
a myth and can never be found? Not at
all. Happiness is real, wonderful, and
there for all to grab on to. The true
key to happiness is not going to come from other people and things, it comes
from within you.
What many miss is that life was
created for a purpose. Every person who
has ever been born has had a purpose and that purpose was meant to be for good
and to fulfill them. Yes, I know the world
had had and now is filled with evil and wicked people who do great harm. No, that was not their purpose. Just because we have a purpose does not mean
we follow that purpose. We all have one
great freedom, the freedom to choose.
The reality is, many make wrong choices - but it is their choices to
make.
For those who choose to live a
life of purpose and good, I have five things you will want to incorporate into
your daily life. These five will help
you find the real sense of happiness in all that you do.
#1) Know What You Want
Our purpose in life is based on
our dream. Some people think that their
purpose must be something they do not want to do or that will make them
suffer. The opposite is true. Our purpose or dream is the one thing we want
to do most. It is that thing that you
think about all the time and have thought about all your life. Find that and you will have started down the
road to fulfillment.
#2) Live With Passion
When we know our dreams it
starts a fire in us that builds and builds.
This fire is called passion. When
you live with passion, that all consuming desire to achieve your dreams, you
will find a force that gets you up every morning with excitement and joy and
carries you through the day till you lay your head down at night, satisfied and
knowing you have another great day awaiting you tomorrow.
#3) Stay Focused
People who jump from one thing
to another all the time never achieve anything in life. You do not have to do everything, you do have
to do one thing. Find that one thing you
dream of; give it your full attention, learn about it, breath it, eat it, live
it. You can be good at several things or
you can be great at one thing. Choose to
be great.
#4) Give You All to It
Success comes through hard work
and a determination to never give up. Thomas
A. Edison said, "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up." He should know, he failed so many times, but
he never gave up and that is why we remember him as the brilliant inventor he
was.
#5) Add Value to the World
Yes, you have a purpose and that
purpose is good and important. What that
purpose is not is just for you. You are
here to make this world better. Remember
that everything - I said EVERYTHING -
matters. Everything you do adds or takes
away from the greater good in this world.
You may not always see its effect, but it is there all the same. Whatever you do, think of how this will add
value to others. You may just be the
answer to many a prayer and you do not even realize it.
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