Responsibility Produces Happiness

Sigmund Freud once said, “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”  Don’t let this be you.  When you blame others for what you’re going through and deny responsibility, you surrender the power over that part of your life. So, make no mistake about it; in the end, the price you pay for happiness, is responsibility.  As soon as you stop making everyone and everything else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.

If you’re unhappy now, it’s not someone else’s fault. Ultimately, your happiness depends on your self-reliance, your unshakable willingness to take responsibility for your life from this moment forward, regardless of who had a hand in making it the way it is now.  It’s all about taking control of your present circumstances, thinking for yourself, and making a firm choice to choose differently.  It’s all about being the hero of your life, not the victim.

Growing Through Experience

Over time you will find that life isn’t necessarily any easier or harder than you thought it was going to be; it’s just that the easy and the hard times aren’t exactly the way you had anticipated, and don’t always occur when you expect them to.  This isn’t a bad thing. It rather makes life interesting.  With a positive attitude you will always be pleasantly surprised. When you stop expecting things to be a certain way, you can appreciate them for what they are.  Ultimately you will realize that life’s greatest gifts are rarely wrapped the way you expected.

Experience is what you get when your plans don’t go as planned, and experience is the most valuable commodity you own, because it builds your strength. You have the power to turn your wounds and worries into wisdom; you just have to do something about them.  You have to accept what has happened and use what you’ve learned to step forward.  Everything you’ve experienced has given you the upper hand for dealing with everything you have yet to experience. When you realize this, you automatically set yourself free.

The Effect Of A Sermon

When a preacher noticed that a man had fallen asleep during his sermon, he said to the man’s wife, “Wake your husband up!” The wife shot back, “You're the one who made him fall asleep, you wake him up!”

Creating And Using The Power Of Mind-set

It is important to appreciate that in life, it is okay to have down days and tough times.  Expecting life to be wonderful all the time would be like waiting to swim in an ocean in which waves, only rise up and never come crashing down. And when you recognize that the rising and crashing waves are part of the exact same ocean, you are able to let go and be at peace with the reality of these ups and downs. In other words, life isn’t perfect, but it sure is good.  Our goal shouldn’t be to create a perfect life, but to live an imperfect life in radical amazement; by getting up every morning and taking a very good look around in a way that takes nothing for granted, and appreciating that everything is extraordinary and every day is a gift, and never treat life casually. Your mind-set is especially powerful when it comes to accepting not to let the pain of a situation make you hopeless, not to let negativity wear off on you and not to let any bitterness steal your sweetness. And even though others may disagree with you, take pride in the fact that you still know the world to be a beautiful place.  Change your thoughts and you change your reality.

When times are hard it can be difficult to follow your heart and take another step, but it’s a tragedy to let the lies of fear stop you.  Although fear can feel overwhelming, and defeats more people than any other force in the world, it’s not as powerful as it seems.  Fear is only as deep as your mind allows.  You are still in control.  So take control by acknowledging your fear and directly addressing it.  Fight hard to shine the light of your words upon it, because if you don’t and you let your fear become a wordless, obscure darkness that you avoid, and perhaps even manage to briefly forget, you open yourself to future attacks from fear when you least expect it. And that can only happen because you never truly faced the opponent who defeated you. You can beat fear if you face it courageously.  And remember that courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid; courage means you don’t let fear stop you from moving forward with your life.

Pain Is Part Of Life And Love

Pain is part of life and love, and it helps us to grow. Many of us are afraid of ourselves, the truth about us, and our feelings. While we are quick to talk about how great the concepts of life and love are, we hide from both every day.  We hide from our truest feelings, because the truth is, life and love hurt sometimes, and the feeling that it brings disturbs us. We are taught at an early age that all pain is evil and harmful.  How can we ever deal with real life and true love if we’re afraid to feel what we really feel?  We need to feel pain, just as we need to feel alive and loved.  Pain is meant to wake us up.  Yet we try to hide our pain. 

We have to appreciate that pain is something to carry willingly, just like good sense; because we can only learn how strong we are when being strong is the only choice we have. It’s really all in how we carry the things that don’t go our way, that will matters in the end.  Pain is a feeling, and our feelings are a part of us, and our own reality.  If we feel ashamed of them, and hide them, we will be letting the lies of insecurity destroy our reality.  We should stand up for our right to feel pain, to endure it, to own our scars, to deal with the realities of life and love, as we grow into the strongest, wisest, and truest version of ourselves.

Some Facts, To Success

1.       No horse gets anywhere until it is harnessed.

2.       No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined.

3.       No Niagara is ever going to produce light and power until it is passed through turbines.

4.       No life ever grows great until it is disciplined, focused and dedicated.

5.       Your dreams and aspirations will not be realized until you apply disciplined, focused and dedicated actions.

Some Random Facts_7

1.       Dendrophilia is the sexual arousal from trees.

2.       Perrier water and its competitor San Pellegrino are both owned by the same company, Nestle.

3.       The highest rates of atheism occur in nations where citizens have high economic and political stability.

4.       The Empire State building gets hit by lightning about 23 times per year.

5.       99% of people with Down syndrome said that they were happy with their life in a 2011 survey.

6.       Canada is just 1.5% larger in land than the U.S.A.

7.       The ukulele was not invented in Hawaii but rather in the Portuguese Island of Madeira