Thought for the day…...
The two biggest things people search for are
simple: the desire to be happy and the desire to feel
satisfied with life. To attain these goals and to achieve great satisfaction
and personal satisfaction in your life and career, consider working to
incorporate within yourself these 10 simple qualities:
1. Be authentic.
Be yourself. Let the results of your life
reflect your readiness to express your personal freedoms. Take care to
exercise your own ideas, your free will and independence. Live from your individual
uniqueness and the willingness to be different from others. Your authenticity
is that place within you that is true and secure enough to withstand the
destructive external negative pressures that often come from life and business.
When you are true to yourself and passionate
about your life, you choose to see choice rather than challenge. Your true
essence is not set up on false pretenses because whatever paths you choose in
life, personal and professional, are completely congruent with who you are.
2. Be truthful.
There is nothing of greater significance to
offer your life or business than honesty. To understand why being truthful is
important, question how anyone, including yourself, ever benefits from
dishonesty. The one thing you cannot afford to lose is your reputation.
Once that is lost, due to dishonesty, it may be impossible to recover.
Living from the truth allows you to build
relationships based in trust between you and your loved ones, colleagues,
competitors, staff and customers. Those around you become energized by
your honesty, compelling them to progress in their business and personal
relationship with you going forward.
3. Challenge yourself.
In order to make the most of your life and
career, challenge yourself. You cannot fulfill even a fraction of your dreams
by sticking to the comfortable and secure. Where there is security. there is
nothing forcing you to rise to the occasion of maximizing your
potential. Challenge yourself to always pursue those goals that will
stretch you. You have to have that “thing” that makes you set out to
achieve those goals -- that elusive “thing” which propels you
to engage in life in ways that you wouldn't if you remained secure and
comfortable.
The more you challenge yourself and flourish,
the greater your confidence becomes to challenge yourself yet again. Challenges
not only help you grow in skill and knowledge, they help
you develop your belief in your capacity.
4. Put love first.
The most significant people in your life are
those who genuinely feel for and worry about you. These are the individuals who
will always be there to fall back on when you have been disappointed
by the world. The people who love and accept you, despite your mistakes
and weaknesses, and do not need you to be different are those who bring
the most value to your world. They help refuel your belief in yourself when you
cannot.
There is no amount of financial gain that could
substitute for the love these individuals offer you. They bring a sense of
connectedness and belonging which serves to make your life happier and more
fulfilling. Those who do not value their loved ones are less well-rounded, less
happy and less motivated and successful in life. Do not let this be you.
5. Be thoughtful.
Treat all of those you interact with, with a
sense of dignity and value. When you can make another person feel significant,
he or she will be motivated to maintain that feeling. Being thoughtful of
others does not make you a pushover. Thoughtfulness is that high-level
quality of being emotionally intelligent in all your exchanges. When you treat
others with openness and respect, you have a calm power to stay rational and
present in your communications.
Keep in mind that anger is never useful in
relationships, personal or professional, as it is nearly impossible to respect
an angry person. Anger doesn’t wear intelligently on anyone.
6. Be a good human being.
Be mindful of others in the ways you expect
others to be mindful of you. Practice tolerance and acceptance to bring a sense
of peace to your life and world at large. Let go of small-mindedness, bigotry,
the belittling of others and self-righteousness.
Tolerance is an essential quality to possess.
Think about who you are in the global world, or in the wholeness of life, and
what you want your personal impact to be. Strive to be that bigger
person. Be open-minded to learning from all types of people and their
differing beliefs, as you never know what type of person holds your next
biggest opportunity in his or her hands.
7. Practice patience.
Knowing the difference between patience and
waiting is key to a successful life and career. Patience is not about waiting.
Waiting is action-less. When you practice patience, you never stop working
toward your dreams even when you do not yet see results. If you are
"waiting" without working, you have stopped. When you are passionate,
there is no limit to the the amount of work you will do if you see it
as bringing you closer to your goals.
Patience means believing enough in what you
have set out to achieve to keep going.
8. Live your dreams.
Do not just follow your dreams, live them.
Make each wish a manifested destiny. Work to make your dreams reality,
with consistency, precision and commitment. Living your dreams is the
stuff a well-lived life is made of. What you pursue passionately will bring you
a life full of vitality, excitement and the joy that you deserve.
Your dreams and passions bring deeper meaning
to your life and to the lives of others. When you live your dreams, you become
inspiring. You instill in others the belief that if it is possible for you,
then it can also be possible for them.
9. Have a grateful heart.
When you have a grateful heart, your positive
emotions become stronger, decreasing the negative emotional experiences of
envy, victimization and jealousy. Gratitude makes your memories more
positive and is a great catalyst in helping you to bounce back quickly from
stress.
Gratitude helps you achieve life and career
goals, making both your personal and professional lives more loving,
productive and enjoyable places to be for you and everyone you touch.
10. Remain humble.
Commit to working quietly and allowing your
success to do the talking. Humility is based in internal reflection. Yet, when
it comes to choosing where to focus your time and energy, it is all about other
people for you. In being humble, you are not being self-centered, or
worrying about your image; you have the courage to risk and try new
things. You are not compelled to try to be perfect, because you are not stuck
on expectations. This frees you from the paralysis of fearing failure as your
main concern.
When you are humble, you approach life with
openness and flexibility. You are not afflicted by the search for
happiness or success for yourself alone, because your main focus is not
about trying to be either successful or happy. Instead, you are caught up in
projects, passions, people and things you consider bigger and more important
than yourself, and from this you end up with more happiness and success, as a
simple byproduct.
The surest path to becoming happy and
successful in life is in helping others to achieve the happiness and
success they desire.
To experience happiness and that deep sense of
well-being and satisfaction with who you are, what you are doing and who
you still desire to become, you must contemplate daily what it means to be
authentic. You must be committed and deliberate in your search to challenge
yourself, to face fears, to be good to others and to be the conscious creator
of the wholeness of your overall life experience.
