Laws of Happiness
I’ve recently been rereading many of the books on my bookshelves and a few have inspired me to share some of the lessons and guidance I found there. So over the next few weeks I’ll be providing these for your review and perhaps inspire you to read them as well. I think most may be in your local library, if not, I’m sure they can be found inexpensively.
Today’s choice is The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino who was a rather prolific inspirational writer in the 70’s. His books are small with simple, yet powerful messages, check them out and I’m sure you will agree.
Key points for me in this small book –
“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for their self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice.”
In much of my work, I do observe that there are a lot of people in our world who are subsisting in a living death – they experience very little joy in their life. For these people, I feel very sad.
Continuing with the key points – the Secret to Happiness:
1) Count your blessings – be grateful for the lessons learned in your challenging times; true security comes not in the things one has, but the things one can live without; handicaps that produce your failure exist only in your mind.
2) Proclaim your rarity – you are not part of a herd of humanity heading for destruction in a gray mass of mediocrity; why have you valued yourself in pennies – when you are worth a king’s ransom; why listen to those who have demeaned you. . . far worse, why did you listen to them; never hide your rarity in the dark, let it shine; never imitate – be yourself, show your rarity to the world and they will shower you with gold.
3) Go another mile – certain means of success is to render more and even better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be; be proud you are a free manifestation of no force but God’s, no love but God’s; you have the power to – think – love – will – laugh – imagine – create – plan – speak – pray.
4) Choose – you have complete control over your destiny – use the power of your choice wisely. Choose to: love – rather than hate; laugh – rather than cry; create – rather than destroy; persevere – rather than quit; praise – rather than gossip; heal – rather than wound; give – rather than steal; act – rather than procrastinate; grow – rather than rot; pray – rather than curse; live – rather than die.
– You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming!
– Your potential is unlimited – never demean yourself again! Never settle for the crumbs of life! Never hide your talents from this day forward!
5) Do all things with LOVE – love for yourself; love for others; and love for God.
These are the reminders / lessons I gained, yet the story was a nice story that I think you will want to read.
As always – remember that “YOUR Chatter Matters”
Nameste’
Margaret Martin ©2015