Triumph Over Tough Times

Michele Moore — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:16:47 +0000

Happiness can be hard to to find during tough times, but it’s important it appears and perseveres. We do our best and achieve our best when we are Up, confident, energized and happy. We must believe we can succeed in order to put forth our best efforts to succeed.

Happiness Habit interviewed and studied habitually happy people from all walks of life and life situations. We discovered key skills and techniques they use to bring happiness and spiritual success into their lives during tough times. Here are some examples:

Wrap The Pain In Love – Don’t deny or discount deep emotional pain that comes from death, devastation, disappointment or the destruction of dreams. Wrap the pain in love, give yourself big, warm, comforting emotional hugs. Feel the pain and wrap it in love.

Revolt and Rebel – Against forces that try to drag you down or depress your spirits, situations that try to hurt, humiliate or harass you. Don’t give them control of your thoughts, actions or feelings, don’t help them defeat you. Decide how you want to feel and go through life, chart your own course.

Choose Your Mood And Attitude – See yourself smiling, happy and confident in your mind’s eye. If you honestly feel warm, powerful, positive feelings and project them, they will become genuinely yours.

Turn Negative Judgments Into Positive Action Items – Negative judgments power all fear, worry, anxiety and distress. Ask, “Can this negative judgment help me in some way? Can I change it?” If yes, turn negative judgments into positive action items. If not, focus time, energy and attention where it helps speed happiness and success. Don’t let negative judgments make you miserable for no reason.

Avoid The Fault Finding Feel Goods – Avoid all those terribly tempting tendencies to judge, criticize, complain and blame. Don’t try to elevate yourself by focusing on what’s wrong. Focus on positive objectives, sharing good cheer, spiritual success and achieving long term goals.

Focus On What You Want To Achieve – Clear goals help define the steps to attain them. Describing what you don’t want, what’s bad or wrong does not communicate what is good, right or successful.

Decide What You’re Going To, Find Ways To Enjoy It.
Fuel Your Life And Your Work With Fun – Enthusiasm and energy are just as important to success as well defined plans. Creatively reinvent difficult, dreary or distasteful tastes to make them fun, rewarding, enjoyable. Turn tasks into games, involve others, tie work to meaningful goals.

Activity And Achievement Are Healing – Plan a series of small, clear, specific steps and consciously celebrate successful completion of each step. Make lists, checking off completed items is very satisfying.

Misery Is Meant to Make Us Move – Change what you’re doing, change what you’re thinking, or change both.

Redirect Distress, Despair and Desolation Into Focused, Determined Drive To Succeed – Build determination to triumph over difficulties. Don’t let difficulties define you or determine your direction. Focus on long term goals and what you really want to achieve in the future.

Use Anger To Your Advantage – Channel anger toward positive, constructive purposes. Use anger to help you to succeed and rebound.

Explore, Discover, Enjoy New Experiences – Changed circumstances offer new opportunities. Acquire new skills, strengths and insights to succeed in new or changed environments. Whatever we cling to controls us, letting go is often very liberating.

Be YOUR Best Self, Live By The Highest And Best Values – When you’ve done your best your conscience is clear. You can let go of results knowing that you could have done no more. Continually trying to do YOUR best is energizing, elevating and your best keeps getting better.

How do you bring greater happiness into your life? Check out our new Happiness In Hard Times program that is coming soon or contact us for advance details.