Happiness Means Hanging in There No Matter What
Happy people persist with activities until they reach their goals.
They do not give up and change direction-completely-when obstacles arise.
To live in happiness you must be consistent with your efforts in the direction of your dreams.
Nothing happens without effort.
Whether that effort comes in putting a request out to the Universe and then virtualizing it with appropriately constructed affirmations or knocking your head against the wall to push your way through to success, something must move for change to occur.
I play music with a small group.
Tonight I was talking with the bandleader.
He remarked that I persist at what I focus on.
He was impressed that I do, in fact, focus and move in that same direction without detours.
He told me that is not something he does.
He told me that is not how he is made.
Hmm.
What do you think? Do you think the way you are made is set in stone? Nothing about you is set in stone.
You know that fact, right? If you decide you want to change your way of being in the world, the first step is to change your self image in that area.
Once you replace that inner image with the new one of how you want to be now then you will easily act in that new way when appropriate situations arise.
However, until you create that new picture of you acting in the new way in that same situation, nothing can change.
Nothing.
Your self image limits you-until you change it into one that sets you free to be the person you want to be who behaves the way you really want to behave.
I am just thinking-I put out a request to play in a rock group some years ago.
But I never really learned how to play rock guitar very well.
Then I wound up in this chanting group-only it is not traditional chanting.
We will do a chorus in a straightforward manner as a chant and then we swing into a rock beat.
Actually in this evenings "chant" we did more rock music than chanting.
And I get to play both guitar and djembe (hand drum)-playing rock rhythms.
I gotta tell you that I was a bit timid about playing djmebe that way.
I learned to play West African music on it so this was a whole new way of using that instrument.
And I really wanted to do it.
And so I practiced to understand what I needed to do and tonight I got compliments on how good I sounded.
When you put your heart into something, no matter what that something is, you will do it.
No obstacle can stand in your way.
You will find a way around, under, over or through it-when your Personal Meaning Quotient (PMQ) is at 100.
When I set my mind to accomplish something my PMQ automatically sets itself at 100! I believe we all live in that truth.
Otherwise how could anyone ever live in happiness?
They do not give up and change direction-completely-when obstacles arise.
To live in happiness you must be consistent with your efforts in the direction of your dreams.
Nothing happens without effort.
Whether that effort comes in putting a request out to the Universe and then virtualizing it with appropriately constructed affirmations or knocking your head against the wall to push your way through to success, something must move for change to occur.
I play music with a small group.
Tonight I was talking with the bandleader.
He remarked that I persist at what I focus on.
He was impressed that I do, in fact, focus and move in that same direction without detours.
He told me that is not something he does.
He told me that is not how he is made.
Hmm.
What do you think? Do you think the way you are made is set in stone? Nothing about you is set in stone.
You know that fact, right? If you decide you want to change your way of being in the world, the first step is to change your self image in that area.
Once you replace that inner image with the new one of how you want to be now then you will easily act in that new way when appropriate situations arise.
However, until you create that new picture of you acting in the new way in that same situation, nothing can change.
Nothing.
Your self image limits you-until you change it into one that sets you free to be the person you want to be who behaves the way you really want to behave.
I am just thinking-I put out a request to play in a rock group some years ago.
But I never really learned how to play rock guitar very well.
Then I wound up in this chanting group-only it is not traditional chanting.
We will do a chorus in a straightforward manner as a chant and then we swing into a rock beat.
Actually in this evenings "chant" we did more rock music than chanting.
And I get to play both guitar and djembe (hand drum)-playing rock rhythms.
I gotta tell you that I was a bit timid about playing djmebe that way.
I learned to play West African music on it so this was a whole new way of using that instrument.
And I really wanted to do it.
And so I practiced to understand what I needed to do and tonight I got compliments on how good I sounded.
When you put your heart into something, no matter what that something is, you will do it.
No obstacle can stand in your way.
You will find a way around, under, over or through it-when your Personal Meaning Quotient (PMQ) is at 100.
When I set my mind to accomplish something my PMQ automatically sets itself at 100! I believe we all live in that truth.
Otherwise how could anyone ever live in happiness?
