What Started Me Thinking

  • "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Mark Twain.
  • “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42
  • “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil
  • “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette
  • “It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton
  • “A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.” Joseph Addison
  • “Best is good. Better is best.” Lisa Grunwald
  • “Order is Heaven’s first law.” Alexander Pope

Happiness Theories I Reject

  • Flaubert: "To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
  • Vauvenargues: “There are men who are happy without knowing it.”
  • Eric Hoffer: “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
  • Sartre: "Hell is other people."
  • Willa Cather: “One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them…”
  • Alexander Smith: “We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”
  • John Stuart Mill: “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

This Wednesday: Tips…for reaching a goal.

Every Wednesday is Tip Day.  This Wednesday: Tips for reaching a goal.

When I was procrastinating about launching this blog, I found some suggestions that helped me get it done. If you’re having trouble accomplishing a task, try these tips:

n      Write down your goal.

n      Make a long to-do list to give yourself a feeling of progress as you work toward a distant goal.

n      Break your main task into smaller, more manageable tasks, and begin by doing whatever is easiest. If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be suprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. Samuel Butler.

n      Set a deadline.

n      Don’t give up if something interferes with your deadline.

n      Ask advice and support from knowledgeable people.

n      Get familiar with other people’s work, so you don’t reinvent the wheel.

n      Sometimes it helps to keep the stakes low at the beginning, so you feel less worried about making a mistake; sometimes it helps to keep the stakes high from the beginning, so you're not tempted to slack off.

n      Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It’s better to do something imperfectly than nothing perfectly. 

Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so. Émile Coué.

Comments

Thanks so much. You and your tips make me happ y.

I've read something like this in Mc.CoMark " Getting Results for Dummies"

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Always think of what to do as easy and it will become so.

This is nice, and i think when we ran into doing errands or goals, we just have to put our whole heart and mind to achieving it. It will become easy if we love what were doing, right?

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Gretchen RubinGretchen Rubin is a best-selling writer whose new book, The Happiness Project, is an account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how to be happier. On this blog, she shares her insights to help you create your own happiness project.


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