How to live an Inspired life

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Inspirational Quotes

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve

anything requires faith and belief in yourself,

vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.

Remember all things are possible for those who

believe."

-- Gail Devers

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Positive Affirmation

Say The Following Out Loud With A Strong Sense Of

Belief And Conviction. Mean It When You Speak.

 "I act with high intention and purposeful awareness.

 I step into the world to live my mission in every

 word and action.I make every act an act of love.

 I am powerful.I am worthy.I am loveable.I am free."

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Today’s Insights

Live an Inspired Life

Many of us are living a mundane life that has no meaning or

purpose attached to it. While we aspire to live an inspired

life where we are living each day with a purpose and the

zeal to get up and live for the day, it is not usually so.

So, how does one get to live an inspired life and by doing

so be a direct or indirect inspiration to others?

Realize Your Purpose in Life

One thing that we fail to do is to understand the purpose of

our life and existence. Everyone has a purpose in their

lives, it is only those who have the heart to listen and the

mind to apply realize this purpose and put it to existence.

So, understand the purpose of your life and plan on putting

it to action.

Think Positive

A positive mind is of utmost importance for an inspired life

and to be an inspiration to others. If you think positive,

your actions that follow your thinking are bound to be

positive. This is the basis of a universal law called the

Law of attraction and can be applied to your day to day

activities. By living a life filled with positive thinking,

you can be an inspiration to yourself and to others around

you.

Motivation from Mentors

Everyone in life has a mentor that they can look up to for

inspiration and influence. While it is not essential to live

your life living it based on their whims and wants, your

life can take new shape if you are taking inspiration from

their lives and putting it to use in carrying on with your

life.

Read Motivational Material

You have lot of hidden talent in you. It is only that your

mind and body should be trained to realize this talent that

is hidden within you. Only when you realize to tap this

potential, you can comprehend what it is that you can

achieve in life. In order to reach this state of mind, you

need to receive adequate inspiration. One method to do this

is to read or listen to motivational material that can guide

you to the path that you have been seeking.

Action Plan

No thought process can be success unless you follow it up

with an action plan and the necessary action. Unless your

thoughts are put in motion, there is no value to it. So, in

order to live an inspired life and be an inspiration to

others around you, you need to not only think about how you

are going to live, but also follow it up with the

appropriate action.

Your life has a purpose. Understand this purpose in life and

move towards this purpose living and enjoying each day as

you realize this goal. By doing so you are living your life

to the full potential and living an inspired life being an

inspiration to yourself as well as to those around you.

To your Freedom and Success,

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Not So Easy

Happiness never is an easy goal to achieve, but it is not impossible also. Happiness is the ultimate goal and what is important for us to do is to select the tools or the means to achieve happiness. The tools can be varied-depends upon person to person. For some it may be money,alcohol,drugs,women/men,family,friends and the list is endless. People derive happiness from different things-objects.

So.... it is very important for us to choose the right tool for drugs,women,alcohol etc...won't really help us gain permanent but rather it is short lived-temporary satisfaction and these activities will also cause a great deal of unhappiness for/to your friends,family and your loved ones. What we must do is to strive for ultimate happiness-permanent and it is also important not to strive for selfish but rather wholesome-global happiness, I do not mean to say to think for every person in this world,its good if you/we can do that,if not, it is important to think at least for the people around you,your community,family,friends etc....

So....where do we start? Its you! Happiness starts within ourselves. It is not necessary that you have to be a billionaire, what is important is to build our own personality,attitude,sincerity,punctuality etc.....if you lack these qualities you may be happy but not others who depends upon you vice versa.

Lets discuss some domains of happiness!

I will categorize happiness into 3 domains.

1.Personal:-

refers to self or happiness at the personal level, the law of happiness is if you are not happy you cannot make anyone happy. There seems to be so many tools to achieve happiness at a personal level, but its easy for us to fall into the trap of greed,jealousy,aggressive,ego,attitude...the list goes on

2. Social:-

In this level it is concerning the happiness of others, it is more about you spreading or sharing your happiness with others,what goes around always comes around.How can you be happy if your society is not a happy one. The main cause of unhappiness in this level is political unrest,terrorism, the environment that we live in etc....So we have to do our bit to make our society happy free of the above points. I am not sure if the environment we live in matters in our happiness.

3.Spiritual:-

Whatever religion you are following its important to have utmost faith in it. Meditation,yoga etc really helps you calm your mind. Our mind is the real devil if we don't use it properly. We must learn to control our mind, be the master.

Lets discuss these topics in the next post. I will be grateful if you could help me with good points or at least correct my mistakes. I am not a master or a superman who knows about happiness. I just want to achieve happiness and also want to spread it all around so that we can have peace and happiness in this world.

Thank you for reading.

Regards.

The New Science of happiness

What makes the human heart sing? Researchers are

taking a close look. What they’ve found may surprise you

By CLAUDIA WALLIS

Sugary white sand gleams under the bright yucatán sun, aquamarine water teems with

tropical fish and lazy sea turtles, cold Mexican beer beckons beneath the shady thatch of palapas—it’s hard to imagine a sweeter spot than Akumal, Mexico, to contemplate the joys of being alive. And that was precisely the agenda when three leading psychologists gathered in this

Mexican paradise to plot a new direction for psychology.

For most of its history, psychology had concerned itself with all that ails the human mind: anxiety,

depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions. The goal of practitioners was to bring patients

from a negative, ailing state to a neutral normal, or, as University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin

Seligman puts it, “from a minus five to a zero.” It was Seligman who had summoned the others to Akumal

that New Year’s Day in 1998—his first day as president of the American Psychological Association

(A.P.A.)—to share a vision of a new goal for psychology. “I realized that my profession was half-baked. It

wasn’t enough for us to nullify disabling conditions and get to zero. We needed to ask, What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?”

Every incoming A.P.A. president is asked to choose a theme for his or her yearlong term

in office. Seligman was thinking big. He wanted to persuade substantial numbers in the

profession to explore the region north of zero, to look at what actively made people

feel fulfilled, engaged and meaningfully happy. Mental health, he reasoned, should be more than the absence

of mental illness. It should be something akin to a vibrant and muscular fitness of the human mind and spirit.

Over the decades, a few psychological researchers had ventured out of the dark realm of mental illness into

the sunny land of the mentally hale and hearty. Some of Seligman’s own research, for instance, had focused on

optimism, a trait shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression and mental illness, longer life

and, yes, greater happiness. Perhaps the most eager explorer of this terrain was University of Illinois psychologist Edward Diener, a.k.a. Dr. Happiness. For more than two decades, basically ever since he got tenure and

could risk entering an unfashionable field, Diener had been examining what does and does not make people feel

satisfied with life. Seligman’s goal was to shine a light on such work and encourage much, much more of it.

To help him realize his vision, Seligman invited Ray Fowler, then the long-reigning and influential ceo of the

A.P.A., to join him in Akumal. He also invited Hungarian-born psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced

cheeks sent me high), best known for exploring a happy state of mind called flow, the feeling of complete engagement in a creative or playful activity familiar to athletes, musicians, video-game enthusiasts—almost anyone who

loses himself in a favorite pursuit. By the end of their week at the beach, the three had plans for the first-ever conference on positive psychology, to be held in Akumal a year later—it was to become an annual event—and a strategy for recruiting young talent to the nascent field. Within a few months, Seligman, who has a talent for popularizing

and promoting his areas of interest, was approached by the Templeton Foundation in England, which proceeded

to create lucrative awards for research in positive psych. The result: an explosion of research on happiness, optimism, positive emotions and healthy character traits. Seldom has an academic field been brought so quickly and

deliberately to life.

WHAT MAKES US HAPPY

So, what has science learned about what makes the human heart sing? More than one might imagine—along with

some surprising things about what doesn’t ring our inner chimes. Take wealth, for instance, and all the delightful

things that money can buy. Research by Diener, among others, has shown that once your basic needs are met, additional income does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life (see story on page A32). A good education?

Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor, for that matter, a high IQ paves the road to happiness. Youth? No,

again. In fact, older people are more consistently satisfied with their lives than the young. And they’re less prone

to dark moods: a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that people ages 20 to 24

are sad for an average of 3.4 days a month, as opposed to just 2.3 days for people ages 65 to 74.Marriage? A complicated picture: married people are generally happier than singles, but that may be because they were happier to

begin with (see page A37). Sunny days? Nope, although a 1998 study showed that Midwesterners think folks living in balmy California are happier and that Californians incorrectly believe this about themselves too.

On the positive side, religious faith seems to genuinely lift the spirit, though it’s tough to tell whether it’s

the God part or the community aspect that does the heavy lifting. Friends? A giant yes. A 2002 study conduct read more

I read this article from http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

How to Love yourself and be Happy

I found this wonderful article about "how to love yourself and be happy" by Lissa Jannini. Check it out yourself. You will have to download the pdf file and get an activation code to read it. Happy reading and be happy.

quotes

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

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I still cannot define happiness

Its a sunday! woke up early in the morning.Sun did not show up the whole day. Did not know how to pass the day. Two of my friends showed up. That really helped bring a smile and cheers on my otherwise dull day. I think friendship is really an important ingredient in bringing happiness to us

I m happy

hey i think happiness is being satisfied..