Paul's Secret

Attitude - An Easy Path to Happiness

Who am I to preach how to be happy? I am simply a guy that learned it and told others. They got back to me and said it changed their lives. This procedure is so easy that strangers actually tried it. Although it is easy, you need to agree with some basic concepts or the procedure may not work. So consider the following one paragraph.

When a person seems to repeatedly get all the breaks, people say he or she has good luck. If a person has a life full of problems, they say he or she has bad luck. The term "luck" is being used here because people don't have an explanation. In other words luck is a non-explanation. Why use a non-explanation ? Are we incapable of seeing how these people do this or are we just lazy? It has become trendy to say, "I don't know." It takes courage to propose a theory. It takes energy to test it out, but not very much at all.

My Theory

IYou may have to suspend disbelief in order to give this a try, but suspending disbelief is the most empowering thing you can do. This is especially true if you hang around with me enough. If we say, "that person must have a great attitude or a terrible attitude" we empower ourselves. If we learn to make our attitude more positive more positive things will happen to us. Here is a procedure to make your attitude more positive and test this theory:

Step One

Every morning, before you meditate, write down in a small journal, a few things that happened the day before that lifted your spirit. Some people, when they read that idea, will jokingly say, "I don't have any uplifting events. This type of humor is a disaster magnet.

Step Two

Meditate. You don't meditate? That is OK the procedure will still work, but it is recognized that the only way to get even close to the truth of religious or psychological beliefs is to explore and experience nature and to meditate. I just think that any one who is open-minded enough to read this, would have at least tried meditation.

Back to Step One

The things you write down don't have to be anything important. Matter of fact, it is a good sign, if you can remember the small things that lifted your spirits.

Sometimes I fall out of the habit of writting down the good things in my journal. When I start back again, I am amazed at how hard it is to remember the good things. This means that I had started remember the dramatic things - the bad things. Recently, I fell out of the habit and had to restart. I sat there thinking, "nothing good happened the day before." Finally, I started remembering a ton of things that made the day before a great day. I was amazed at what I had forgotten. It had actually been a great day and I had forgotten it all.

I just filled up another book of good things; it is wonderful to read. This pleasure alone is enough to keep me writing down the good things.

Once you get into this habit of remembering the good things it becomes easier and easier. Soon you will be dwelling and remembering the positive things more than the negative. What happens after that is amazing. You just might create a life as enjoyable as mine.

I had written a book containing tools similar to the one presented above including a method for accessing your intuition any time you need to make a decision. It is called The Intuition Toolbox.

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