Happiness Is Created

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” – William James Pessimism is like asking yourself “How can I fail? How can I connect with, and strengthen, my not-being-able-to-do-it thoughts?” Optimism is asking yourself, “How can I succeed? How can I call the best of me, of others and what’s around to create the best result…

The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up. – Seth Godin But you’ve got to make the first move. You need to be creative. Otherwise…

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats As I said to a colleague recently: the Universe rewards action. One of the key questions this quote brings up for me is: what stops us from taking action? We all have dreams about the…

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. – Aldous Huxley Success, like happiness, is not something to achieved or arrived at. It’s not a destination, it’s more of a by-product. To use the example of a tree, Success isn’t the leaves of the tree, or…

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth. – Albert Einstein Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the…

Belief creates the actual fact. – William James What you believe you create. How? Simple. You act in accordance with your beliefs. Your beliefs are the thoughts you no longer question. They are unlike the myriad thoughts you have forgotten or dismissed. Your beliefs are the thoughts that have hooked your attention, are sufficiently congenial…