If you do a search in the internet, there are no less than a million of written articles on the various ways to stay happy. Even so, why are people still living unhappily? Is it really true that our happiness is just around the corner or is it far beyond our reach?

Happiness definitely has not eluded us. However, it is our attitude towards happiness that creates that illusion.

If you are like the many others out there searching for an effortless way to be happy in life, I’m sorry to tell you that you are in the wrong place.

To be able to consistently stay on the happy side, you also have to make the proportional amount of effort to attain that. You probably heard the phrase, “No one owns you a living”. It is the same for achieving happiness. The same rule applies. No one is obliged to make you happy.

Both you and I know that life’s too short to be anything but happy and if you want to stay happy, you have to first recognize the fact that you are the only one capable of achieving that.

So are you ready to accept responsibility for your own happiness?

Yes? Great!

So let’s delve into your stumbling upon happiness lesson 1, envy no one but yourself.

Let’s face it. The pasture always seems greener on the other side. The truth is there will always be people around you who have what you want, be it financial freedom, healthy relationships or just happiness.

There will be millions of people who would rather change position with what you have now.
In fact, such comparisons or envy often sets in when you are filled with doubts, fears and insecurities.

Well, have it also occurred to you that you may be the exact person whom others want to be! The fact is while you are hoping you can be like someone else, others are also hoping they can be like you.

Probably unknown to you, you does have some great qualities which others see in you. Very often, we tend to take our skills and talents for granted and failing to recognize that those exact same skills, talents or characteristics that we own, often much envied by others.

If you recognize, your happiness is just around the corner, beyond the feeling of envy and jealously.
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all! Spend some time to reflect on it. If you cannot even learn to love yourself, for your own strengths and weaknesses, for who you are, how can you show genuine love to others?

As what one of my mentors always mentioned, “To stay happy, stay in love”.

Love not only about accepting what you have but also what you lack. Only when accomplishing that can you start extending that love beyond you, to the people around you.

None of us come to this world by chance. We all have different and unique life callings to fulfill. Thus, stop viewing yourself as second-rated beings and get real serious in releasing those limiting thoughts of always wanting to be someone other than yourself.

Learn the virtue of acceptance and contentment. When you genuinely begin to feel contented, satisfied and happy with whom you are, your happiness is just around the corner, will you agree?

For them, they do not believe that happiness is purely a state of mind. Instead, they hold a firm belief that in order for them to be happy, they have to acquire what they set out to achieve in the first place.

Until they arrive at their end destination, they will always remain unhappy, discontented about life and constantly asking themselves, “How I am supposed to be happy in life?”

As absurd as it may sound, many of us are actually guilty of that. We are constantly stretching our necks, looking into the far future wondering when we will attain our prizes and consistently neglecting all the great gifts life has presented to us in the present moment.

To seek to establish your happiness on future events is a sure and definite way to unhappiness and discontentment in life. Wanting to get your hands on your end prizes is fine. However, making your happiness dependent on its future arrival is certainly not.

In fact, a happiness which is greatly dependent on those big cars, majestic houses or huge pay, will definitely be very short-lived.

Jim Rohn once said, “When you manage to get something money can’t buy, you will get what money can buy.” Beautifully said!

Take some time to let those words of wisdom sinks into your head.

Oftentimes, we tend to place too much emphasis on materialistic things or things we can buy with money while neglecting those which money can never buy. Health, relationships, true love etc are some great examples.

Money can buy you a good-quality bed but you can never buy you a quality sleep. Money can buy you a big house, but it can never buy you a good company. Money can buy you many good supplements, but you can never buy you a good health.

Undeniably money is very important in this modern world, still, it is not everything. There are still many things in the world which money can never buy. Contrary to popular belief, money is never the answer to the question, “How I am supposed to be happy in life?”

In fact, if you were to take a look in your life, you realize that it is those insignificant things that actually bring you true happiness into your life.

Try recalling the events which have brought you true happiness. Was it when your child just started walking? Or did someone just throw you a simple yet warmhearted cerebration for your birthday?

If you have not yet realized, your happiness depends very little on your life circumstances and situations. Status, good looks, wealth, or other material possessions are too fleeting and non-concrete to base your happiness on.

The best they can do is to bring short lived gratification, but not true happiness. Gratification is temporary, but happiness endures.

Therefore if you were to ask me how I am supposed to be happy in this stressful, my answer will be very simple. Just become more aware, appreciative and grateful for the happenings around you.

Life is not simply holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well.
~. Danish Saying .~

Sure enough, it sounds simple, however, to speak the truth, when I just started out to take my life by passion it was not at all an easy task as it looks. However, even having said so, neither is living a life with passion impossible.

It all voices down to how you are going to find passion in life, in your life! So what is passion all about? Are you able to properly define it? Honestly speaking, if you do not know what passion is all about, how can you seek to achieve it? Not say live a prosperous and successful life with it.

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
~ Earl Nightingale ~

Being passionate involves having or being able to express strong emotions about something. That is to say, finding passion in life requires you to know what things, achievements or successes you are currently very emotionally attached to.

Emotions are great drivers in life. In order for you to living a life with passion, you will have to first give credit and acknowledge your own feelings.

During the course of me finding and pursuing my own passions, I was tempted to give up my passions countless times. More often than not, I was overly concerned about others feel and think about me rather than spending the time and effort on focusing and guarding my own emotions and thoughts.

When you allow others’ thoughts take precedence over your own emotions, you are definitely going in the wrong direction. The passion you thought you are pursuing is not yours to own and neither will you will be able to truly own it.

One very valuable lesson to learn is to know who you can disclose your passions or desires to. You have to be very selective to people whom you talk to about your dreams and future achievements in life.

Of course, when others offer their advice, most of them mean well, still, you have to recognize that meaning well does not entail them being right.

To take life with by passion, you have to learn to make smart choices. Be smart when choosing your passions, when choosing your course of actions and equally important, be smart in choosing whom you talk to about your passions.

Living a life with passion requires great amount of time and effort to pursuing your passions and also to keep your thoughts under your hat when necessary.

“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”

In my mind, I was thinking, “Ya right! Just another marketing tactics.” Truthfully speaking, I was not very convinced about the possibility of one able to change one life within 5 minutes.

It was only recently did I manage to put down my ego and settle down to listen to what David Riklan had to say.

Surely, there was something in his words that I missed out. Though I still find the name of his video series very misleading.

Certainly, it is not possible to reach your destination overnight, however, it is very possible to change your direction of focus.

Someone who is going in the wrong direction does not need extra motivation to move him faster. He only needs the necessary inspiration to help him change his direction.

And that I believe is the true essence of “Change Your Life In Less Than 5 Minutes” video series. In his videos, David Riklan will present life-changing ideas which he hopes to brings you the necessary inspiration and motivation to change your direction in life.

All changes first start with awareness then a choice. Until you know what you are doing is not going to bring you any further in life, you will not attempt to change for the better.

If you keep doing what you do, you will keep getting what you get.

It is true that the “Change Your Life In Less Than 5 Minutes” video series will bring new light and insights to how you can change your life for the better, still, it can only bring you that far into your life.

To be really successful and happy in life, you will need to go through 3 very important steps which I called it A.I.A.

A-Awareness. Remember, you cannot change anything you do not know about. Ignorance is not a bliss here!

I- Intention. After attaining new ideas and insights, the next step is to decide if you intent to change. You are in charge of your life. No one can force you to change if you do not want to.

A-Action. Last but not least is concrete actions. You will agree with me that nothing happens until an action. Your actions are the catalyst of all changes you want to experience in your life.

Miss out any of the above steps, making persistence and long-lasting changes to your life will be difficult.

For the most recent updates on the “Change Your Life In Less Than 5 Minutes” video series, you can always visit http://www.SelfGrowth.com/Blog/Most_Recent.

Hopefully, you too have gained some insightful ideas from me and incorporate into your life to attain the success and achievements you always desire in your life.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup;
And he learned too late
when the night came down
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the light when you’re hardest hit -
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

Source Unknown

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How often do you find yourself saying, “I already know that, that is not nothing new here!”

As a matter of fact, you may already have all the procrastination solutions available in your sleeves. However, if that is so, why are you still unable to find the proper cures for all the procrastination problems you have been facing all these while?

“To know but not to do is not yet to know!” Many people want to believe that knowledge is power. However, that is only part of the truth. Knowledge itself is not power, applied knowledge is!

Until you are able to move from procrastination to motivation and be willingly to carry out inspired actions in ending procrastination, no amount of information you gather will be able to help you in any ways.

When fighting procrastination, the most important battle of all is none other than the battle that is carried out in your very own mind. And quite contrary, that is the most important and also only battle you need to engage in when fighting procrastination.

The most significant step you need to make in ending procrastination is to be ready to retool your attitude towards life and success.

It is far from the truth that successful people are free from the troubles of procrastination problems. Like anyone of us, they too have to make a very important choice day in and day out. And that is the same exact question you have to ask yourself every day.

Are you willingly going to continue procrastinating and live life with regrets? Or are you choosing a route of discipline and be active in carrying out all the procrastination solutions which you know may work for you?

In life, everyone has to go through life carrying either one of the two burdens. The first burden is the burden of regrets while the other is the burden of discipline.

Both burdens inflict pains on us. However, what is different between them is that the burden of discipline weighs ounces while the burden of regrets weighs tonnes.

And your choice of the burden to carry through life is mainly determined by your attitude in life.

If you are someone who values short-term comfort and satisfaction, you will automatically choose to uptake the burden of regrets. Although the burden of regrets may seem light and manageable at first, however, as time goes by, you will gradually feel the strain caused by the burden of regrets.

Successful people, on the other hand, are people who value long-term success over instant gratification. Thus, they always choose to take up the burden of discipline. Yes, it is true that the burden will weigh heavier initially, however, with practice; the burden becomes more and more manageable and lighter.

Thus, if you have not yet realized, the procrastination solutions to all your procrastination problems are actually within you, awaiting for you to carry them out. A gold hidden in the mine is useless to you until you can discover it and use it properly.

So the question is, are you already uncovering the dormant procrastination solutions inside you?

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
~~ Mark Twain ~~

Of course, consistency in one’s efforts and perseverance in the process is also essential in you to learn about patience.

However, what do you have to lose to not invest the necessary time and effort into learning patience? Certainly, you have already given this question a thought even before you come to reading this article.

Therefore, I want to assume that both must have come to a common agreement that not having patience does cost us a fortune in our lives. Thus, it is very essential for us to learn about patience and put it to good use in our lives.

Though it may take masses of time and effort in the process of us learning patience, still, it all works towards us achieving greater rewards and achievement in our lives.

Like many people out there, we are constantly looking for gratification of everything. Instant cash, instant noodles, instant profit system, etc. And what we often fail to see and recognize is that when we learn about patience, it allows us to attain some essential life skills and acknowledged to expand our awareness and understanding of yourself and others around us.

Quite contrary, in order for us to learn about patience, it requires us to already have patience in the first place!

I may sound like I’m talking in riddles, however I’m not. Just imagine this, how can you possibly learn about patience while you are not patient in the learning process at long?

Definitely, patience is a virtue. However, some people have misused the word “patience” with procrastination. In fact, the phrase “patience is a virtue” has been labelled as the lazy man’s quote.

The truth is, patience will still remain as a virtue. We just need to correct our attitude and perception while we learn about patience.

As what most successful people preach, patience is an essential in you attaining your success in life.

Bob Doyle, the founder of the “Wealth Beyond Reason” program, mentioned that for us to practice the Law of Attraction, we need to first practice the art of patience.

With patience, you learn to enjoy the process and the journey rather than just keeping your sight on the end results.

Contrary to what the majority of the people think, your happiness is really not measured by the number of achievements you attains in life.

It is impossible for us to win all battles in life. However, with patience, you will be imparted with the necessary skills and abilities to turn all defeats into wins and the willingness to lose minor battles in order to win the big war.

It may be true that we all encounter temporary defeats along the way, however it is also because of those temporary defeats that we get learn better strategies and tactics where we can employ to win other major battles in life.

Good things never come. You go out to them!

Good luck and wonderful things only get attracted to people who continuously fork out the time, energy and effort to learn about patience and taking massive and inspired actions.

What does success really means to you? Does success means earning a lot of money? Gaining tremendous power and respect? Or is success simply being able to do what you want?

Surely, everyone of us has different definitions of success. Success in one’s eyes may be considered as a failure in others’ opinions. Still, it is important for you to know what and how do you define success. You cannot hit what you cannot see.

You may define success differently from others, however that shouldn’t be your concerned. No one but yourself is responsible for everything that happens in your life. Thus, making plans on what success is to you and go out to get success in life is a task only you can accomplish.

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”
~.~ Albert Schweitzer ~.~

If you have already realized, everyone wants to be successful because we all hope to achieve happiness in life. To get success in life, you must have a clear idea on what you like, what you want, what you desire, what you need and most importantly, what makes you happy.

More often than not, we tend to place others in front of us, overly concerning ourselves with what is it that others want or the things that will make them happy.

However, do pleasing others, getting what they want and making them happy get success in life which you desire?

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
~~ Bill Cosby ~~

Certainly, it is not true that in order for you to achieve a successful life, you have to stop loving others, being inconsiderate to others or stop caring for them. The important point here is to strike a balance between achieving your own happiness and be loving and caring to others.

Quite contrary, these two tasks are not mutually exclusive. Rather, it is because of you achieving one can you achieve the other.

To get success in life, you have to start acknowledging and recognizing the fact that everyone of us is unique individuals who have the right to go for what we think will make us happy.

In fact, the most crucial crisis which most people are facing right now is not the financial crisis, but an identity crisis. They do not know what they really want in life, what type of happiness they are pursuing or what success really means to them.

Think about it, how can we get success in life without first identifying what is success to us? By doing so, it simply to put the cart before the donkey and the only direction you are going is backwards!

Therefore, it is time for you to start thinking in your own shoes what kind of happiness are you pursuing and desiring in the first place. Do what you love, love what you do. This will eventually help you get success in life you always desire.

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
~~ George Burns ~~