Every year, besides learning something new, I resolve to create more peace and happiness.
Psychologists, along with business and spiritual leaders, say that “better version” means not dwelling on past hurts or failures, like high school Spanish, and getting clear on what we want in life, so that moving forward we may live a life on purpose.
Why do we want to do this? Because research shows purposeful living leads to great rewards like better health, more energy, more joy, improved relationships and even financial success and a longer life. But first we have to get our head (notre tête) right. This means we need to invest in some quiet time so we can focus.
And, oh yes, just like many of us who like to clean up the remaining holiday decorations, discarded ribbons and anything that plays “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in January or in any other month really, leadership and spiritual gurus suggest we clean up the clutter in our brains as well. Clutter like self-defeating thoughts and fears can act like those unopened holiday gifts still hanging around in our homes that will definitely get in the way of what we want, like un croissant.
Every year, besides learning something new, I resolve to create more peace and happiness. Researchers like Utah State University Business Professor Michael Glauser say we can achieve this by focusing on others. A key principle from his new book, “One People One Planet: 6 Universal Truths for Being Happy Together,” is to share the good fortunes in our lives.
Before you give everything away and run off to go live on a beach in, let’s say, Saint-Tropez, please know this: the Hindu sages believed there was nothing wrong with having great treasures, but it is the attachment to those treasures that leads us to trouble and not to happiness, or to une baguette, says Glauser, sort of.
So, in that respect, creating jobs and paying people well is one way businesses and business owners share their good fortunes. Another is to become invested in the success of others, like being a mentor, a longer-term commitment than a one-time gift, which is still a good thing.
For advanced New Year’s Resolutioners, work on clearing out your brain of unwanted messages – the judgy and hurtful stuff – fill it up with positive thoughts that ignite your passion and purpose and share your good fortune with others. For example, Voulez-vous une baguette? FBN
By Bonnie Stevens, FBN
For a free guided meditation to clear and calm your mind from clinical hypnotherapist Rosemary Powell and to hear six “universal truths” for happiness and peace from author Michael Glauser, go to Zonie Living at StarWorldWideNetworks.com/shows/bonnie-stevens.
Bonnie Stevens is a public relations consultant. She can be reached at bonnie.stevens@gmail.com.
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