You Are The Difference

Only you can change your outlook and your outcome.

This is an important point, so much so that it bears repeating.

Only you can change your outlook and your outcome.

The only outlook that matters is your own. No one is living your life except you, so if you see the postive side of things, your life will be positive. If others see a negative side, their perception needs adjusting, your postive attitude determines your outlook and drives you towards postive outcomes.

You will find as you achieve more, you will want to give more. You will want to share your achievements with others so they too may eliminate their barriers and in turn they can help others. 

You will not only want material things (which is usually the first stage of wanting) as you will quickly see your outlook changing on what is important as you acheive more and more.

It is perfectly fine to use any of the ideas presented here for material gains, but you will find that eventually you will be striving for more ethereal goals. Material things only satisfy our five senses, whereas immaterial things also appeal to our spiritual self which is the actual source of our wanting and is what provides us with feelings of accomplishment. 

So, what do you want from life? Your answer will drive what you need to do to get everything you want.

Good luck in your pursuit of all things!

5 Stages of Eliminating Barriers

As I mentioned in my prior post, to reach our goals we need to Eliminate Barriers to those accomplishments. In this post I will lay out the 5 stages we each need to go through to Eliminate Barriers in our life.

1. Specify - During this stage we need to specify what goal or accomplishment we want so we have a clear plan and measure of success. This will help solidify the value of the goal.Anything we truly value, we will work harder to achieve.
2. Analyze - We need to determine what steps need to be taken to reach our goal. If there are a series of steps, we need to magnify each one and break it down to managable smaller substeps. This will keep us on target and provide proof of forward progress towards our goal as we complete each step we identify. 
3. Act - During this stage we do those tasks we've outlined as necessary to achieve our goals. It should be fairly simple to follow the plan we've created for ourselves and easily complete the actions to get us to our goals.
4. Review - Periodically review your list of goals and measure your progress towards them. As we progress through our plan, we may have to readjust or replan based on the outcome of certain situations, but we should be seeing progress towards our goal during this stage.
5. Triumph - Smile! If you've followed the steps above you can now enjoy the achievement of milestones towards your goal, and be blissful that you are closer to ultimate happiness!

I will focus on each step in following posts.

Good luck on the road to happiness. 

Eliminating Barriers

Life never seems fulfilled.

You wake up to a job you don't like, to make just enough money to pay the bills and you can only reminisce of the good times rather than make good times.
But then there are some anomalies - the people with more money and less happiness, the people of abject poverty who are consistently overjoyed.
What do they have in common with you and how can you use that commonality to your benefit to get that thing that you ultimately strive for - happiness.

I will use this site to discuss this topic and to provide some techniques you can use in your daily life to Eliminate Barriers to your happiness. As the song says, "life is what you make it" and it is up to each of us to do the things we need to do to improve our situation and get the things we want.

Material wealth is short-lived. Yes, we enjoy having huge homes, fast cars, big boats, fancy toys, but the joy we get from immaterial things such as love, great accomplishment, sharing knowledge, helping others - that happiness lasts a lifetime.
The feeling I get when remembering how I felt when a desperate friend needed my help comes faster and stronger, and lasts longer than recalling how I had the most expensive jeans in my class. Not only that, but I'm sure my desperate friend remembers my help, whereas I'm sure no one particularly remembers my jeans.

My next few posts will outline the method I have discovered that will help you Eliminate Barriers to your happiness, both material and immaterial.