There was a particular interviewee who was a best selling author in Australia who was suppose to come on and talk about Happiness. Obviously that didn’t happen, so here I am in the latter stages of this book talking about Happiness.
Can you attract it?
Happiness, depression, repression, guilt, enthusiasm…they’re all conditions and adjectives that we can inherit at any time. That’s a fact.
Striving after happiness is also about focusing on your core values. Your belief systems. What are you around? Are you around all types of positive circumstances? If so, you’ll unconsciously attract great things to you.
“I want to be happy …” A popular song starts off with words that contain a great deal of truth: “I want to be happy, but I won’t be happy, ’til I make you happy, too!”
One of the surest ways to find happiness for yourself is to devote your energies toward making someone else happy. Happiness is an elusive, transitory thing. And if you set out to search for it, you will find it evasive. But if you try to bring happiness to someone else, then it comes to you.”Excerpt From: Napoleon Hill. “Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/success-through-a-positive-mental-attitude/id381618319?mt=11
And then there was this. Have you ever felt an unbelievable amount of joy when you did something for someone else? Let me put it to you like this. I had a student who was smiling from one corner of his eye to the other. He had come into my place of work to surprise me. In just 6 hours teaching, I taught him how to pass the IELTS examination, catapulting him to England (where he’s going to school now). I sat down and I was just so overjoyed that I helped someone achieve such an amazing victory in life.
That will stay with me forever.
It’s like the video that Gary Vee recently posted about the lady giving him her gun license, sobbing and saying “I don’t need this anymore.” That is the moment of true fulfillment. Stopping someone from committing suicide. Ok, that’s probably not happiness, but that’s utterly fulfilling.
“You are a happy person during a period when you predominantly experience that positive state of mind in which you are happy combined with that neutral state of mind in which you are not unhappy.
And you can be happy, content, or unhappy. For the choice is yours. The determining factor is whether you are under the influence of a positive or negative mental attitude. And that factor you can control.
Handicaps are no barrier to happiness. Surely if ever there was a person who might have been expected to complain of unhappiness Helen Keller was that person. Born deaf, mute, and blind, deprived of knowledge of normal communication with the persons who surrounded her, she had only her sense of touch to help her to reach out to others and to experience the happiness of loving and being loved.”Excerpt From: Napoleon Hill. “Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/success-through-a-positive-mental-attitude/id381618319?mt=11
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