The most valuable skill you can ever develop, to enhance every aspect of your life, including your career, your job, and your job search, is the skill of directing your thoughts toward what you want and how you want to feel. It’s the law for all success, achievement, abundance, and personal and professional fulfillment.
The greatest myth
Knowledge is not power; and taking massive action is not power. Yes knowledge is important and taking action is important. But real, life-changing power comes from how you think and feel about what you know, and then taking the right constructive action that is aligned with your good-feeling thoughts.
I see so many people with an abundance of knowledge who are struggling, so many people taking massive action (working 16+ hours a day) and barely surviving. So what is the secret that energizes all success so you can achieve all that you want in the shortest time possible?
The big secret to success
My wife, Ellen, explained it to me in a way that I never read or heard before. She told me (on the 4th of July, 2011), that “the secret to ALL success is keeping yourself happy.”
We live at a time where almost everything and everyone we come in contact with is negative. Most people focus on lack (what they don’t have) rather than what they have to be grateful for. In other words, most people have been conditioned to be unhappy.
Unhappiness cannot, in any way, shape, or form, attract success or high achievement.
You cannot focus on the negative and get a positive outcome
When career coaches ask, “what job would you love to have,” the answer is usually, “well, I know what I don’t want.” You see, when you focus on what you don’t want – you get what you don’t want as energy attracts like energy. You cannot feel poor and expect to attract wealth. Career coaches will tell you that you cannot focus on being unemployed and find a good job. You cannot feel miserable and attract joy !
Below are 5 ways to be happy so you can attract an abundance of success:
- Focus on the present and all that you have to be grateful for (for instance, your eyes work and you are able to see)
- Avoid negative people, negative media, negative television, and negative environments
- Allow yourself (your thoughts) to focus on and feel the excitement of all that you want; not where you are right now or what you don’t presently have
- Stop struggling with life, learn to just live it. Until you release the feeling of struggle, you will not be able to achieve what you want. The more you struggle with life, the more life will continue to struggle with you
- Make a conscious effort to seek out reasons to laugh more and to have fun with everything you do – even your struggles
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain.
A decade of research in the business world proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: raising sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%, as well as a myriad of health and quality-of-life improvements.
The business world finally caught on to this and today employers are looking for happy people. So go ahead and find your key to happiness and great things will follow.
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