At sometime or another, most
of us ask the question, "Am I living the
best way possible?" Take a moment to consider
these six qualities that can improve the quality
of your life. Post this at home as a reminder
to live your best life possible. Talk to your
children about these things.
- APPRECIATION: This is the
first and most fundamental happiness tool. Appreciation
is the purest, strongest form of love. It is
the outward-bound kind of love that asks for
nothing and gives everything.
- CHOICE: Choice is the father
of freedom and the voice of the heart. Having
no choices, or options, feels like being in
jail. It leads to depression, anxiety, and the
condition called learned helplessness. Anyone
can choose the course of their lives, but only
happy people do it.
- PERSONAL POWER: This is the
almost definable proactive force, similar to
character, that gives you power over your feelings
and power over your fate. Personal power has
two components: taking responsibility and taking
action. It means realizing that your life belongs
to you and you alone, and then doing something
about it. Personal power keeps you from being
a victim.
- LEADING WITH YOUR STRENGTHS:
When you give in to the automatic fear reaction,
it makes you focus on your weaknesses, which
only reinforces your fear. But when you take
the path of the intellect and the spirit, you
naturally begin to focus on your strengths and
start to solve your situation.
- THE POWER OF LANGUAGE AND STORIES:
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 about own lives
eventually become our lives. We can tell healthy
stories or horror stories. The choice is ours.
- MULTIDIMENSIONAL LIVING:
There are three primary components of life:
relationships, health, and purpose (which for
many is found through work). Many people, though,
put all their energy into just one area. None
of this works. Happiness comes from a full life.
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