Travelling

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

Nicholas Bouvier

The algorithm for happiness=3:1

Say/think/perform three positive things for every negative one.


Positive emotions tell us not just what the body needs but what we need mentally and emotionally and what our future selves might need. They help us broaden our minds and our outlook and build our resources down the road. I call it the "broaden and build" effect.

from 'Positivity', by Barbara Frederickson

Simple really!

Say YES and take action!

When you consider this quotation from Marshal Goldsmith (Mojo)

   Our default response in life is not to experience happiness
   Our default response in life is not to experience meaning
   Our default response in life is to experience inertia

it is clear that the only way to have meaning and happiness in our lives is to say YES and to take action!

I Promise Myself ...

To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past 

   and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times 

   and give every living creature I meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of myself 

   that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, 

   and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, 

   not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, 

   so long as I am true to the best that is in me

Written by Christian D. Larson in 1912

When the voice and the vision

When the voice and the vision on the inside become more profound and more clear and loud than the opinions on the outside, you have mastered your life.

John Demartini

The Secret

And in a similar vein ...

“There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. 

We see the world not as it is, but as we are”

William Shakespeare