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Your focus needs more focus!

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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Tony Robbins

One of the main reasons why even people with huge potential often don’t get things done is a lack of focus.

As long as you don’t focus on certain skills, you won’t become good at anything. Being mediocre at many things is fun, but being really good at some things is way better, that’s for sure!

/phil

Stop chasing happiness

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If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

These thoughts occured  to me a lot for the past few weeks. So many peoeple are busy searching for happiness that they forget that they are in fact happy right now.

They have friends, family, jobs they like, hobbies etc. but still “search” for happiness.

/phil

Do what you love!

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.

W. Beran Wolfe

Being happy is doing the things you love!

Searching for happiness is a concept that can’t work since your search is not meant to make you happy.

You have to start doing things you like in order to find happiness.

/phil

What you need in life

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles Schulz

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Set yourself some nice goals!

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

And another brilliant quote from Carnegie, one of my favourite authors.

If you set the right goals for yourself, it is hard not to get happy. Even failing them is not going to discourage you, so always try to set nice goals instead of heading for what the society tells you your goal should be!

/phil

Attaining joy for dummies

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoi

Tolstoy this sneaky guy, I LOVE hime!

Honestly, I have to agree to a 100% to this! You have to have something to do in your life, not just yourself. If you think about you own happiness all the time, you can’t achieve happiness.

If you care for a family, lead a company, train your body as an athlete, reign a country or do something other meaningfull (to you!), you can attain joy!

/phil

Happiness is like a switch!

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It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

Sharon Salzberg

On of the best things about life is that it can change every day.

In fact, it can and does change every minute, every second, every moment! And therefore every moment is a moment to develop, a moment for growth.

People can run a boring life for years, they can be depressed for half their lifetime, it won’t change the fact that they can be happy right at this moment. Happiness does not need time for preparation, it is more like a switch that can be flipped on and off.

Also remember that this switch is not flipped by your goddamn environment, friends, family, job, car, house or whatevery, but only by yourself! 🙂

/phil

A story about false beliefs and limitations

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Hey there 🙂

I recently read a story I wanted to share with you because I consider it very helpful:

As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a rope tied to their legs. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.

“Well”, he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were. The powerful and gigantic creature has limited its present abilities by the limitations of its past.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life holding onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before? How many of us refuse to attempt something new and challenging because of our so called MINDSET?

Your attempt may fail, but never fail to make an attempt!

Choose not to accept the false boundaries and limitations created by the past!

/phil

Check your habits!

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Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.

Rob Gilbert

Honestly, you HAVE to keep control of your habits!

Your habits form your lifestyle, and eventually your character. They define who you are and how you are percieved.

Don’t let them shape you, shape your habits!

/phil