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What Makes You Happy And Successful?
What is success?
Is it measured by a big house, a successful career and a large pay-packet? The Oxford dictionary defines it as “The attainment of fame, wealth, or social status”
Success can be seen from two sides, the outside and the inside.
There is a tension between our personal view of success and what society sees as “success”, because they are very different.
What Makes You Happy And Successful?
What is success?
Is it measured by a big house, a successful career and a large pay-packet?
The Oxford dictionary defines it as “The attainment of fame, wealth, or social status”
Success can be seen from two sides, the outside and the inside.
There is a tension between our personal view of success and what society sees as “success”, because they are very different.
This is how does society defines success
All external things.
This is an alternative fact matrix!
This is the original matrix.
These are the true measures of what success really is!
It is an “inside” job.
More stuff doesn’t mean more happiness it just means more anxiety and more insurance.
The internal measures of success that include happiness, good relationships, feeling fit and healthy and being in control of your life are what we strive for every day.
Here are 10 daily life habits of happy and successful people.
Make and take the time to create something for you. For example I create TM presentations.
The mental and physical health are interwoven.
Exercising 3-5 times a week is essential.
Habitual exercise must be convenient and enjoyable.
For decades it was running for me, today it is road cycling.
it’s not Pizza and coke
Make continuous learning part of your daily routine.
It could be watching a TED talk or listening to a podcast.
Distractions are everywhere.
Block out time daily for projects and creation.
Dwight Eisenhower states.
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important”.
The top right corner of the box (important but not urgent) is where we should focus if we are to create long term success that has meaning and purpose. That will make you happy.
Stopping and doing nothing is sometimes one of the best ways to achieve something.
The art of quiet contemplation is almost a forgotten custom in our busy western societies.
Meditate, contemplate or just be in the now. When you make quiet space then insights and inspiration flood in.
The art of mindlessness not mindfulness needs to be practiced.
Thinking too much will tire you.
Worrying about the past or being anxious for the future is a dangerous place to be.
Why go there. They don’t exist. The past has gone and the future hasn't happened. All you have is “Now”.
Good relationships keep us happier and healthier”. That’s it.
Jeremy Epstein has a serious routine He personally phones 1,800 people year on their birthday. He wants people to know how special they are.
Cultivate your relationships and keep building community and happiness will show up.
How do you write a 130,000 word novel?”One word at time…
The Great Wall of China: one stone at a time.
That sense of achievement is something worth pursuing.
It means making some hard decisions to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of making them happen.
That goal setting ritual is a key life habit.
If your life is out of control and everything is a mess then it’s hard to be successful
My big problem is I don’t properly organise my office processes and computer filing. I spend double the time getting stuff done! Not to mention duplicating work already done.
Getting organised is boring, for some of us. I was never like that, I was super organized!
The habit of being messy with life can become a slow spiral into disaster.