Understanding happiness

The key to happiness and spiritual success is to focus on what you want to achieve, not on what you want to avoid. Continually picture yourself smiling, happy and successful. Feel happy, successful feelings, honestly project those feelings and soon they will become genuinely yours.

Use errors to strengthen your performance. Don't beat yourself up when you make mistakes. Beating yourself up just reinforces the errors your are trying to avoid! Try to be your Best Self all of the time. See yourself at your best, feel it and project it. Decide to be guided by goodness, and live by only the highest and best values. What is more enjoyable and fulfilling than practicing being at your best, happy and spiritually successful?

Happiness is a state of mind, not a way of life or a destination that you'll reach one day. Bumps in the road of life are to be expected, and we cannot let them ruin our days. We often think that if a combination of factors would just fall into place THEN we would finally be happy. Satisfaction can only come from within, through truly accepting yourself, your life, and your circumstances. During this life you'll have many hard days--long work days, sleepless nights, worrying about the future, etc. This week, think about the joys of your life. Find creative ways to enjoy the little bumps in the road.