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Happiness

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by Brian Tracy

Achieving your own happiness is the best measure of how well you are living your life and enjoying your relationships.

Did you know that you can learn how to be happier and more fulfilled in everything you do?

Here’s how…

Everyone is Different

Happiness in life is like a smorgasbord. If 100 people went to a smorgasbord and each put food on their plate in the quantity and mix that each felt would be most pleasing to him, every plate would be different.

Even a husband and wife would go up to the smorgasbord and come back with plates that looked completely different.

Happiness is the same way. Each person requires a particular combination of those ingredients to feel the very best about himself or herself.

Listen to Your Heart

And your mix is changing continually. If you went to the same smorgasbord every day for a year, you probably would come back with a different plateful of food each time.

Each day-sometimes each hour-only you can tell what it takes to make you happy. Therefore, the only way to judge whether a job, a relationship, an investment, or any decision, is right for you is to get in touch with your feelings and listen to your heart.

Be True to Yourself

You’re true to yourself only when you follow your inner light, when you listen to what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the “still, small voice within.”

You’re being the very best person you can be only when you have the courage and the fortitude to allow your definition of happiness, whatever it may be, to be the guiding light of every part of your life.

Source: Brian Tracy International

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How to Use Autosuggestion to Reach Your Goals

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By Greg Frost,

Autosuggestion is a technique of mind training generated from each individual, which allows the subconscious mind to accept positive thoughts and goals, and from there engage its dormant power in achieving those goals.

Below are some simple techniques you can start using today.

 
1. Repeating Affirmations

This can be done in your mind or spoken aloud, but it is essential to repeat the positive affirmations everyday. This can be done ideally in the morning or right before bedtime, as it allows the subconscious to continue working on it even whilst you are sleeping.

2. Writing down your Affirmations

By writing down your affirmations, it is a reinforcement process that forces your mind to focus on it.

By imprinting the importance of these affirmations in your subconscious, you are allowing it to be accepted and acted upon. It is also useful to leave the list in prominent areas such as your work space so that you are constantly reminded of positive thoughts.

3. Listening to a self-recorded tape

Over time, you will find that it is more than sufficient to listen to your voice repeating the affirmations. It will then be less important to consciously think of your positive affirmations.

4. Someone you Admire

Pick out traits that you admire, or even a person whom you wish to emulate. Identify what characteristics you are aiming towards, and include them in your positive affirmations. This will give you a concrete goal to work towards.

The subconscious mind is a powerful tool that can work both ways if not properly trained. Once you decide on a path of action, the subconscious mind will guide you through it to achieve your end goal, manifested by the communication between the conscious and the subconscious mind.

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Success: 4 Ways You Can Avoid – or Recover From – Burnout

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By Yanik Silver

Nearly every successful person I know has grappled with burnout. I’ve personally gone through it and come out the other side several times.

I did it by using these four techniques:

1. Truly disconnect.

In today’s business world, we are constantly tethered to our BlackBerries and “always-on” connections. As a result, when we truly disconnect from time to time, the effect is almost magical.

By “disconnecting,” I mean being totally out of touch with work.

2. Refocus on your successes.

Many times, the feeling of burnout occurs because things are NOT going “right.” Keeping in mind that “right” is a relative term (and I believe everything ends up the way it should be, no matter what), the way to overcome this form of burnout is to change your focus.

Focusing your energy on what’s wrong only creates an endless spiral of more and more negativity. Instead, take out a piece of paper and start making a list of every “victory” you’ve had during this year, this quarter, this month, or this day.

When you do that, selective perception kicks in… and you’ll see that there is significantly more good than bad going on.

3. Set a major goal that you cannot achieve on your own.

I admit, I’ve only just started doing this. But I can already see how it leads to a powerful change of direction, intention, and motivation. And that can get anyone out of a funk.

I’m talking about setting what Jim Collins and Jerry Porras call a “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” or BHAG – a concept they introduced in their book Built to Last.

And the ultimate goal is to change the way business is played. To me that means bringing more fun into business and never doing things the same way they’ve been done.

4. Get back to the fun.

Think back to when you were a kid – to the things that got you really jazzed and excited. What did you like to do? For me, it was playing sports, drawing, and making people laugh. That’s why I still play ice hockey and beach volleyball.

As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz say in their book The Power of Full Engagement, “The richer and deeper the source of emotional recovery, the more we refill our reserves and the more resilient we become.”

Give all four of the above ideas a try when you’re feeling burned out or when you’re trying to break free. They’ve worked for me – and they’ll work for you too.

Source: ETR

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