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Eliminating the Drama & Chaos to Find Authentic Happiness

Eliminating the Drama & Chaos to Find Authentic Happiness

We need to be conscious of the external environment we create for ourselves as we move toward happiness and fulfillment in our life. Often times the environment that suited us in the past is not the one that will suit… read more
My life was wonderful, and gratefully, I knew it…. and then came cancer.

My life was wonderful, and gratefully, I knew it…. and then came cancer.

When I got sick the first time, I was a very healthy individual. I exercised, I meditated, I ate organic foods, in fact, I was partly vegetarian. I was a good person, so it wasn’t like I had a lot of fear or anger inside of myself, and I truly felt like every part of my life was going great. I had a great business that I’d started. I had fallen in love with a beautiful, amazing woman. Everything felt like it was just perfect. My life was wonderful, and gratefully, I knew it. So when I found myself on a Friday afternoon in the year 2000, sitting in front of the surgeon who was telling me that I had the second most aggressive cancer that he knew of, and that he needed to operate within two hours, I was speechless.
True happiness grows when we’re in control of who we choose to be in any given moment.

True happiness grows when we’re in control of who we choose to be in any given moment.

True happiness grows when we’re in control of who we choose to be in any given moment. Then, as a result to those choices, happiness blooms based the actions that we take. So if we can find, through our actions and who we’re choosing to be, that our sense of inner peace and happiness is strongly present, then everything outside can’t take that away from us.
True Happiness Regardless of Circumstance

True Happiness Regardless of Circumstance

There is a foundation to making this thread of decisions work in our lives – it is knowing the difference between the things that we can control and the things that we can’t. Even in the moment I was diagnosed with cancer, I could 100% control who I was choosing to be. I could decide how to react to the doctor’s words, “I don’t know if you’re going to live.”
Happiness, Love, Health and Life – 12 Ways to Find Authentic Happiness

Happiness, Love, Health and Life – 12 Ways to Find Authentic Happiness

USA Today came out with a study recently finding that “Mental Happiness” improves with age. “Two California researchers say that mental health improves with age; most people get happier as they get older, and those who are older have more… read more
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Tip of the Day — Saturday, April 19

"There is some form of connection that occurs through observation, but an intimate engagement requires openness and is gauged by our ability to reach deep within our soul in order to connect to another." - Chernoff - CONNECTION