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Happiness vs. Fulfillment 

 

Fulfillment is internal

Happiness is external 

 

Psalm 37:4 

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good (other things that are a prosperous journey) as long as they live;

 

Good HB = Find the things in life that make you happy.

 

6 happiness practices

 

1.     Count your blessings… Appreciation is the first and most powerful tool at being happy. Can you learn to appreciate.

 

2.     Choice, it is the father of freedom and the voice of choice. Having no choices leads to depression loneliness and ultimately learned helplessness. Like I have always said - there are 2 doors in life, one is marked freedom and one is marked security. most people choose security and than wonder why there never feel free. 

 

 

3.     Personal power. This is the most indefinable proactive force similar to character that gives you power over your feeling and over fate. Personal power has two components a. taking personal responsibility 

b. taking action.

 

You are were you have led yourself to be. Don’t like your life, choose to take responsibility and then take action to change it. 

 

What is blame? it is basically pointing your finger at someone and saying “there in charge”. YOU BE IN CHARGE FOR A WHILE>

 

 

4.     Lead with your strengths. Most people when pressured focus on their weakness, which cycles out of control.

 

I would spend as little time on my weaknesses as possible. Strengths are what push you the most, challenge you to greater heights and pay off the most in the long run. 

 

 

5.     The power of language and stories. We don’t describe the world we see, we see the world we describe. Language as the single most fundamental force of the human intellect has the power to alter perception. We think in words and these words have the power to limit us or to set us free. They can frighten us or evoke our courage. Similarly the stories we tell ourselves eventually become our life. We can tell healthy or horror stores the choice is ours.

 

Tell your story with meaning… why it is all gong to work out! 

6.     Multi dimensional living. There are three primary components of life relationships health and purpose. Most people focus on only one of these. 

 

… and the other 2 sabotage the one they focus on. Focus on all 3. 

And when I say relationships the first one is with God. 

 

As Dan Baker once said: The 5 happiness traps are: trying to buy it, trying to find it in pleasure, by trying to resolve the past, by trying to over come weakness, trying to force it. “what happy people know, by Dan Baker PHD