You Deserve to be Happy

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Dear Everyone in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone.....

 

Every one of us wants to be happy. Brian Tracy takes you thru' the

learning curve. Quite a thought provocating one. Go for it and be

happy.

 

I received it from a different source and am sharing with you all.

 

Love and Love alone...

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

You Deserve to Be Happy - By: Brian Tracy

 

Achieving your own happiness is the best measure of how well you are

living your life and enjoying your relationships. You can learn how

to be happier and more fulfilled in everything you do.

 

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.

 

There Are No Limits

 

A very important point on the subject of happiness is whether or not

you feel that you " deserve " to be happy.Accept the notion that you

deserve all the happiness you can honestly attain through the

application of your talents and abilities. The more you like and

respect yourself, the more deserving you will feel of the good things

in life. And the more deserving you feel, the more likely you will

attain and hold on to the happiness you are working toward.

 

Make Happiness Your Key Measure

 

You should make happiness the organizing principle of your life.

Compare every possible action and decision you make against your

standard of happiness to see whether that action would make you

happier or unhappier. Soon, you will discover that almost all of the

problems in your life come from choices that you have made - or are

currently making - that do not contribute to your happiness.

 

 

Pay the Price

 

Of course, there are countless times when you will have to do little

things that don't make you happy along the way toward those larger

things that make you very happy indeed. We call this paying the price

of success in advance. You must pay your dues. Sometimes these

interim steps don't make you happy directly, but the happiness you

achieve from attaining your goal will be so great that it totally

overwhelms the temporary inconveniences and dissatisfactions you have

to endure in order to get there.

 

Action Exercises

 

Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into

action.

First, accept that you deserve all the joy and happiness you can

possibly achieve through your own efforts.

 

Second, make your own happiness the chief organizing principle of

your life and judge everything against that standard.

 

Third, be willing to work hard and pay the price for the satisfaction

and rewards you desire. Always go the extra mile and your success

will be assured.