People are different so there are some things that will make one person happy that would not make another happy at all! There is not one 10 second formula or one size fits all, that can make everyone happy today. I wish there was! Although, there are simple steps you can take to create happiness in your life.
Look at this quote by Benjamin Franklin: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Before you endeavor to take the journey to becoming happy with your life, you first have to establish what happiness means to you. What do you want out of life? Would earning an extra $200 a week make you happy? Would being married make you happy? Having a family? Travelling the world? What would make you happy? If you have not yet established this, you'll be running around trying everything hoping one of these things will make you happy and it will take you along time to get anywhere.
My advice to you if you are seeking a happier life, is to take a pen and paper and write down what would make you happy. Do not think about money, time, limitations, just write. When you are done, read what you have written. Now take these things you have written and make a plan. Write a goal. Make it a 6 month goal. Do not try and do too much. Take the 3 things that you would love to do the most, and begin to plan to make them happen!
By writing it down as a goal, you have something to focus on. you are not aimlessly running around trying all different things to make you happy, but you are aiming to achieve 3 - 4 things.
Wishing you well on your pursuit of happiness.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Tuesday, 10 April 2007
4 Keys to Staying Motivated
Staying motivated is easy when everything is going well, but it not always last! We have to renew it each and every day. That is okay. It does not make motivation a bad thing. You simply have to realize that if you want to stay motivated over the long term, it is something you will have to apply yourself to each and every day.
1. Have a goal for your life.
If you do not have a goal, then what are you moving toward? The root word of motivation is “motive.” The definition of motive is, “A reason to act.” This is the cognitive or rational side of motivation. It is your vision. You have to have a vision that is big enough to motivate you. Set out a vision and a strategy for getting there. Have a plan and work the plan.
2. Fuel your passion.
It is much easier to be motivated to do what you are passionate about. Set yourself on a course to have a consuming desire to reach your goals.
3. Work hard and get results. The harder you work, the more results you get, and the more results you get, the more it will motivate you to work harder! Start with a small achievable goal. Aim to lose a few pounds. When you have, it will motivate you to work toward losing more.
4. Surround yourself with motivational material.
Find good material that will motivate you toward where you want to go. Read books that teach you new ideas and skills. Read books that tell the stories of successful people. Buy them, read them, and get motivated! Buy great music and listen to it. It gets you going and motivates you!
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1. Have a goal for your life.
If you do not have a goal, then what are you moving toward? The root word of motivation is “motive.” The definition of motive is, “A reason to act.” This is the cognitive or rational side of motivation. It is your vision. You have to have a vision that is big enough to motivate you. Set out a vision and a strategy for getting there. Have a plan and work the plan.
2. Fuel your passion.
It is much easier to be motivated to do what you are passionate about. Set yourself on a course to have a consuming desire to reach your goals.
3. Work hard and get results. The harder you work, the more results you get, and the more results you get, the more it will motivate you to work harder! Start with a small achievable goal. Aim to lose a few pounds. When you have, it will motivate you to work toward losing more.
4. Surround yourself with motivational material.
Find good material that will motivate you toward where you want to go. Read books that teach you new ideas and skills. Read books that tell the stories of successful people. Buy them, read them, and get motivated! Buy great music and listen to it. It gets you going and motivates you!
Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness'
Get it free when you subscribe at: Find Your Greatness
Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter.
Also log onto http://livingword.ie for more inspirational messages
Sunday, 25 March 2007
Be Thankful
William A. Ward says "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
It can be so easy sometimes to forget to express the appreciation we feel for the little day to day things that happen in our lives. Everyday we have something to be grateful for but so often we overlook these things and focus on the negative aspects of life.
I want to help you shift your focus away from negative conditions and circumstances and bring you back into the reality that all things, regardless of how perceived, assist you in your growth and bring you one step closer to your intended destination in life.
Sincere gratitude empowers you to focus on the positive aspects of life, and develops into greater awareness and appreciation of the overlooked, often misinterpreted, and ever so important little blessings that make up this experience we call life.
An attitude of gratitude can make the difference between experiencing the big blessings that life has to offer and falling short of all that is available to you.
Make a decision today that you are going to be aware of those around you and express your thankfulness.
William Arthur Ward says “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
I encourage you today, look back over your life and pick out the people that had a positive influence on your life and assisted you in getting to where you are today. No matter how long ago it was, make an effort to find them out and say thank you. When people are grateful, I will go out of my way to assist and help them in whatever way I can. People will do the same for you if you are show gratefulness and appreciation.
Being grateful and expressing is a great habit to develop and one that will make life easier and attract people to you.
It can be so easy sometimes to forget to express the appreciation we feel for the little day to day things that happen in our lives. Everyday we have something to be grateful for but so often we overlook these things and focus on the negative aspects of life.
I want to help you shift your focus away from negative conditions and circumstances and bring you back into the reality that all things, regardless of how perceived, assist you in your growth and bring you one step closer to your intended destination in life.
Sincere gratitude empowers you to focus on the positive aspects of life, and develops into greater awareness and appreciation of the overlooked, often misinterpreted, and ever so important little blessings that make up this experience we call life.
An attitude of gratitude can make the difference between experiencing the big blessings that life has to offer and falling short of all that is available to you.
Make a decision today that you are going to be aware of those around you and express your thankfulness.
William Arthur Ward says “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
I encourage you today, look back over your life and pick out the people that had a positive influence on your life and assisted you in getting to where you are today. No matter how long ago it was, make an effort to find them out and say thank you. When people are grateful, I will go out of my way to assist and help them in whatever way I can. People will do the same for you if you are show gratefulness and appreciation.
Being grateful and expressing is a great habit to develop and one that will make life easier and attract people to you.
Simple Acts of Kindness
Stephan Grellet says “I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” We have one shot at life, one chance to make the relationships around us succeed, one chance to leave a mark as we travel through life. Simple acts of kindness should be an eveyday occurance in our lives.
Kindness is describes in the dictionary as
1. The quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic
2. The tendency to be kind and forgiving
3. A kind act
Look around your world today, examine your relationships. Everyday we have a chance to make somebodys day better, to pass on a smile. You will be amazed at how much better you feel when you are not concentrating on yourself, but looking at others lives and seeing what you can do to make their day better.
It may be a simple friendly 'Good morning' to the cleaner in your workplace that everyone ignores, doing some shopping for an elderly neighbor, babysitting for a busy Mother so she can have an evening to herself, send flowers to a teacher that has dedicated her life to her job. The list goes on and on, but I garantee you that as you seek to show kindness to others, you will feel better about yourself.
Look for the opportunities today to show a random act of kindness not looking for anything in return.
Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness'
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Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter.
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Kindness is describes in the dictionary as
1. The quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic
2. The tendency to be kind and forgiving
3. A kind act
Look around your world today, examine your relationships. Everyday we have a chance to make somebodys day better, to pass on a smile. You will be amazed at how much better you feel when you are not concentrating on yourself, but looking at others lives and seeing what you can do to make their day better.
It may be a simple friendly 'Good morning' to the cleaner in your workplace that everyone ignores, doing some shopping for an elderly neighbor, babysitting for a busy Mother so she can have an evening to herself, send flowers to a teacher that has dedicated her life to her job. The list goes on and on, but I garantee you that as you seek to show kindness to others, you will feel better about yourself.
Look for the opportunities today to show a random act of kindness not looking for anything in return.
Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness'
Get it free when you subscribe at: http://www.findyourgreatness.com
Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter.
Also log onto http://livingword.ie for more inspirational messages.
5 Keys To Getting And Keeping Volunteers
Volunteers are not paid -- not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
I have listed below practical ways you can motivate people to volunteer and keep them volunteering in your organisation.
1. Appreciate your volunteers. Appreciate that people give up their spare time to come and volunteer. They may have put aside social activities, family time or friends to come and help. Make sure that volunteers feel appreciated. You can do this by openly honoring them, send flowers to say thank you after a large event, send them on a weekend away for a break, buy them a massage or a beauty treatment.
If volunteers do not feel appreciated for what they are doing, they will eventually spend their time and effort where they do feel appreciated.
2. Pay Volunteer's expenses. Volunteers are already donating time to their organisations. It would be wrong to expect them to end up out of pocket as well.
Payment of expenses is important from an equal opportunities point of view. People on benefits or low incomes should not be excluded because they cannot afford the cost of travel or meals out.
Not paying expenses will make it harder to recruit, as the more barriers you place in the way of volunteers the less likely they are to want to volunteer for you.
3. Create a Volunteer policy. This is not always necessary for informal groups but once groups that use volunteers start to become larger and more formal the importance of a volunteer policy increases.
A volunteer policy ensures consistency, and demonstrates a commitment to good practice. It also helps clarify exactly why volunteers are being used within an organisation, and how they will work alongside paid staff. And for volunteers, it makes clear how they can expected to be treated by the organisation.
4. Find out why. Find out why people are volunteering for a specific area and it will enable you to place them in a position doing something that they are passionate about. It is better to have people that are self motivated because they love what they are doing, then to have to always push and motivate them.
5. Delegate. If somebody volunteers for an area and they are more than capable of taking it on, give it over! You cannot micro manage everything and expect to succeed in every area, you are spreading yourself too thin. This is especially important for your organisation as it grows bigger and you find that you do not have enough time to do everything you were once doing.
Delegate what you can.
Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness'
Get it free when you subscribe at: http://www.findyourgreatness.com
Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter.
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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebecca_Osborn
I have listed below practical ways you can motivate people to volunteer and keep them volunteering in your organisation.
1. Appreciate your volunteers. Appreciate that people give up their spare time to come and volunteer. They may have put aside social activities, family time or friends to come and help. Make sure that volunteers feel appreciated. You can do this by openly honoring them, send flowers to say thank you after a large event, send them on a weekend away for a break, buy them a massage or a beauty treatment.
If volunteers do not feel appreciated for what they are doing, they will eventually spend their time and effort where they do feel appreciated.
2. Pay Volunteer's expenses. Volunteers are already donating time to their organisations. It would be wrong to expect them to end up out of pocket as well.
Payment of expenses is important from an equal opportunities point of view. People on benefits or low incomes should not be excluded because they cannot afford the cost of travel or meals out.
Not paying expenses will make it harder to recruit, as the more barriers you place in the way of volunteers the less likely they are to want to volunteer for you.
3. Create a Volunteer policy. This is not always necessary for informal groups but once groups that use volunteers start to become larger and more formal the importance of a volunteer policy increases.
A volunteer policy ensures consistency, and demonstrates a commitment to good practice. It also helps clarify exactly why volunteers are being used within an organisation, and how they will work alongside paid staff. And for volunteers, it makes clear how they can expected to be treated by the organisation.
4. Find out why. Find out why people are volunteering for a specific area and it will enable you to place them in a position doing something that they are passionate about. It is better to have people that are self motivated because they love what they are doing, then to have to always push and motivate them.
5. Delegate. If somebody volunteers for an area and they are more than capable of taking it on, give it over! You cannot micro manage everything and expect to succeed in every area, you are spreading yourself too thin. This is especially important for your organisation as it grows bigger and you find that you do not have enough time to do everything you were once doing.
Delegate what you can.
Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness'
Get it free when you subscribe at: http://www.findyourgreatness.com
Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter.
Also log onto http://livingword.ie for more inspirational messages.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebecca_Osborn
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