WHEN POLLED ACROSS THE NATION AS TO: "What Brings HAPPINESS?"
These EIGHT items were listed as NOT being of major importance to maintaining lasting happiness
(the Eight Delusional Desires for Prosperity):
1. Wealth
2. Physical appearance
3. Age
4. Power/Influence
5. Children
6. Possessions
7. Fame
8. Education
These EIGHT items WERE listed as of major importance to maintaining lasting happiness
(the Eight Keys to Happiness):
1. A feeling of being in control of one's life and one's choices. Being adaptable to experiences and outcomes.
2. A relationship, partnership, and lasting commitment.
3. A satisfying and rewarding job or career.
4. Good friends.
5. Leisure. Time to travel, retreat or relax. Private time to be alone, and authentic time to share with others.
6. Exercise. Exercising in any style, degree of effort, or time duration that you need or want.
7. Sense of feeling connected to God. Having an avenue to express and experience Spirituality.
8. Hope.
HOPE was given as the ultimate tool or method that enabled individuals to endure life
while they were waiting for their unmet needs to be fulfilled or fall into place.
If a person loses HOPE
-- in a strained relationship, a stalled career, or negative health situation,
the lack of this emotion can lead to miscommunication, a separation (or divorce), ongoing drama or crisis
-- or even death. Losing hope invites lack of vision, criticism, boredom, anger, stagnation, and letting go of one's desire to live.
The quality of your HOPE is the quality of your perception of life.
To assure a constant stream of hope in your life, the first step is finding key people who will listen to you
(i.e., your needs, wants, and desires)
so that you feel heard. When you feel heard, hope begins.
You can lose hope when there is negativity in your life.
Even when the darkest moment surrounds us, know that there is or will be a person who will listen to your pain.
By accepting the moment and the future, you are believable to those who want to help you.
Hope comes from knowing you can succeed. Knowing you can succeed comes from one or more persons who say,
"you will overcome this challenge!"
Therefore, it behooves you to (carefully) choose who you trust and tell your pains and problems to.
Interestingly enough, when we pray to God, the angels, or a loved one who has passed over,
we are actually reaching out to "someone" who will listen to us.
In praying to God, we open ourselves to taking responsibility for our past and present actions.
In that one moment of internal realization, we attract someone who will step into our lives specifically
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what brings happiness
when pulled across the nation as to what brings happiness
these eight items were listed as
not being of major importance
to maintaining lasting happiness
the 8 delusional desires for prosperity
1 wealth
2 physical appearance
3 age
4 power influence
5 children
6 possessions
7 fame
8 education
these eight items were listed
as of major importance to maintaining
lasting happiness
the eight keys to happiness
1 a feeling of being in control of one's life and one's choices being adaptable to experiences and outcomes
2 a relationship partnership and lasting commitment
3 a satisfying and rewarding job or career
4 good friends
5 leisure time to travel retreat or relax private time to be alone and authentic time to share with others
6 exercise exercising in any style degree of effort or time duration that you need or want
7 sense of feeling connected to god having an avenue to express and experience spirituality
8 hope hope was given as the ultimate tool or method
that enabled individuals to endure life
while they were waiting
for their unmet needs to be fulfilled
or fall into place
if a person loses hope in a strained relationship
a stalled career
or negative health situation
the lack of this emotion can lead to miscommunication
a separation or divorce
ongoing drama or crisis or even death
losing hope invites lack of vision
criticism boredom
anger stagnation and letting go of one's desire to live
the quality of your hope
is the quality of your perception of life
to assure a constant stream of hope in your life
the first step is finding key
people who will listen to you
I e your needs wants and desires so that you feel heard
when you feel heard hope begins
you can lose hope when there is negativity in your life
even when the darkest moment surrounds us
know that there is or will be
a person who will listen to your pain
by accepting the moment and the future
you are believable to those who want to help you
hope comes from knowing you can succeed
knowing you can succeed
comes from one or more persons who say
you will overcome this challenge
therefore
it behooves you to carefully choose who you trust
and tell your pains and problems too
interestingly enough when we pray to god
the angels or a loved one who has passed over
we are actually reaching out to someone
who will listen to us
in praying to god
we open ourselves to taking responsibilities
for our past and present actions
in that one moment of internal realization
we attract someone
who will step into our lives
specifically to give us the hope
and information we need
hope always comes from knowing we have a friend
loved one or a loving god who listens to our problems
in asking for help a solution always appears
it may take days
weeks months or years to forget the pain we endured
but this expands our breath of love
to accept new personal growth
as we gain hope happiness fills our days again
we start noticing how good food tastes
how beautiful the sky is
and how people take the time to help us
when hope fills our life again
our renewed value in ourself
leads us to our life mission
and realization of our natural talents
the result is having control of our life
a great relationship a rewarding job
good friends more leisure time
desire to exercise and a connection to god
by paying attention to the 8 keys to happiness
versus the delusional desires for prosperity
we can learn how to truly realize
lasting happiness in our lives