Are you Happy? My Happiness Scale

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  The
  
  HAPPINESS SCALE ☺©
  
  Created by Janice Davies – Attitude Specialist
  
  Presenter in TRUE HAPPINESS DVD.
  
  The great essentials in happiness in this life are
  Something to do, Something to love
  Something to hope for…..Joseph Addison
  
  The Dictionary defines HAPPY as:
  
  feeling,
  showing or expressing joy
  pleased
  causing joy or gladness.
  
  Therefore seekers of happiness must decide what will bring them joy or gladness in life and pursue it. For some people deciding what brings them happiness can be the challenge.
  
  Your ONE goal in life is to discover yourself.
  
  Instead of honoring the abundance in their lives, some people limit their thinking to what they don’t have, getting stuck in thoughts of negativity. If happiness is expressing a feeling which is created with our thinking, people must examine and choose their thoughts.
  
  It’s about aligning YOUR:
  
   feelings, thoughts and action
  or
   soul, mind and body.
  
  When you are watching a bee looking for pollen from a flower, they don’t choose the first flower. Instead they examine many before deciding whether to delve in and collect the pollen from the flower.
  
  It’s like that with our lives. We examine different areas and then decide what we need to delve into to bring us happiness.
  
  Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle
  
  
  Here’s an exercise where you can rate your level of happiness in each area of your life.
  
  The column headed ‘others’ could be spiritual, community and project may be a big goal, i.e. saving for a holiday.
  
  These two areas are optional. However the score ten is the highest and one is the lowest for any column.
  
  It’s imperative you tap into your heart for this exercise instead of your head. Your heart creates the magic in your life (makes you happy) then your head has to create HOW you can make it happen. Often this works in reverse.
  
  Do this exercise with your pen in your opposite hand, using the FIRST answer that comes into your head.
  
  Yourself Health Relationships Work Finances Others Project
  
  Yourself Health Relationships Work Finances Others Project
  
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  Your areas where you have the rated yourself the highest marks, are the area you’ve had the most successes.
  
  The areas with the lower marks are the areas of your life where you need to focus your goals.
  
  The successful areas make you feel like a winner (and you are) the other areas make you feel like you’re a loser (which you’re not) you just haven’t achieved your goals in that part of your life YET!
  
  You have free will so you can do it, if you choose.
  
  As the author of How to get what you want in life and create success, and also a presenter on the new DVD True Happiness, I have had to recreate a happier, more purposeful personal and professional life.
  
  It is a challenge but worth the effort to become your greatest.
  
  Believing in yourself and overcoming your challenges gives you the confidence to move out of your comfort zone, and move onwards and upwards in your life, to happier times that you are experiencing this moment in time.
  
  As Nike says: JUST DO IT!
  
  
  
  
  
  The world is waiting for your best input
  and
  to put your best foot forward!
  
  
  
  One of the key ingredients in being happy is to look after yourself and if you don’t know one else will, instead they will use you and your relationships will be one sided. They will get what they want and you don’t. Consequently, they are happy and you are not.
  
  Additionally, your life is for you to learn to be yourself and live being that person.
  
  Life is a journey that is constantly changing which means you have to be continually learning something new to keep on your self development journey.
  
  It’s the old adage….Love yourself first and others will love you.
  
  However….this takes a journey in self-awareness to your success and happiness.
  
  The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved —
  loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
  Victor Hugo
  
  
  Your Guide to
  TRUE HAPPINESS
  DVD
  
  
  
  
  
  When I was invited to be part of the DVD Your guide to True Happiness, I had a huge sense of coming home. Here is some excerpts which I shared.
  
  
  Put yourself first
  
  Your lifelong goal is to create happiness in your own life. And that means learning to be who you are, living who you are, being that person. Then doing what you want to do is going to bring you happiness and you will get what you want to have.
  
  
  
  Self, Health, Relationships, Work/Career, Finances, Community.
  
  Putting yourself first means learning to love yourself. It’s moving from having low self-esteem to high self-esteem, to believing in yourself. When you do that, you’re going to be able to have the confidence to overcome any challenge that comes into your life.
  
  
  Challenges
  
  We’re always going to have challenges. We’ve got a whole lot of things that we’re working on in our life. But the tests that the universe sends us are going to be tests that you are going to be able to overcome.
  
  So you’ve got to make a choice now. .
  
  Your career
  
  Life is about understanding that you’ve got choices – that choice
  
  1. it’s going to take you down a happier path, and choice
  
  2. you’ve got a bigger fear to overcome.
  
  So, that’s also another thing to take into consideration when you’re thinking about happiness, and also the can and the can’t change; that we can be unhappy about something that we can change, and that is (a) our job, our health, our relationship. But we can’t change some things, and so being unhappy about things that we can’t change is really wasting our time and our energy.
  
  
  Your key is to learn to create your happiness.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Here’s some information about the DVD.
  
  True Happiness DVD
  revamps 2000 year old secrets
  for 21st Century
  
  
  Former New Zealand Herald Careers editor Steve Hart has produced the True Happiness 70-minute DVD which features some of the country’s top motivational speakers as well as GPs, a psychologist and spiritual leader.
  
  “Research shows that is not the case and that a person’s set point of happiness can be raised with positive thinking and looking at life in a more positive way If you are felling unhappy about your life, relationships or work then a new DVD may be able to help you.
  
  He says the basic thrust of the video is that money doesn’t raise people’s levels of happiness.
  
  “We all need money,” says Steve. “But once you have the basics covered, more money doesn’t translate into more happiness. For example, people live for the Lotto, saying that if they won the big prize they’d be happier.
  
  The experts say that acceptance of your circumstances is really the start of becoming more contented – not wishing your life away hoping for a big win or waiting to retire from your job.”
  
  Steve says the idea of the video came to him more than two years ago.
  
  “At the time I was working full time at the newspaper and frequently got calls from people asking for advice about their careers. A lot of them seemed plain miserable with their lot.
  
  “At the same time I was speaking with life coaches and career coaches and thought it would be good to bring some of them together in one positive, inspiring and motivational video.
  
  
  
  ABOUT THE DVD
  If you have been searching for the secrets to feeling happier, need guidance about the job that’s right for you or simply want to see the light at the end of the tunnel during these tough times, then your search is over.
  The True Happiness DVD has already helped thousands of people discover new meaning in their lives. To bring life into perspective and help them look at what really matters: health, well-being, relationships and contentment.
  This wonderful DVD is full of practical help and advice, delivered by people who are experts in their field. It really helps people who are feeling depressed, are seeking a happier life or want guidance on their career or job.
  Among the nine New Zealand experts featured are Dr Tom Mulholland, The Attitude Doctor; leadership coach Dr Clive Littin; self-esteem guru Janice Davies; the Rev Rhonda Joy Gola; change agent Jon Winder and holistic physician Dr Robin Kelly.
  This excellent and thought-provoking video will help you recognise why you may feel unhappy and give you solid ideas on things you can do right now to start changing your life.
  The True Happiness DVD will help you feel better about yourself and see the world in a whole new light. It is spiritual – but not religious – it is motivational but not unrealistic – and above all it provides you with the tools you need to help you change your life for the better.
  After watching the video in the comfort of your home you will start to discover a more positive you and become a person who smiles, embraces life and helps others to become more contented. Every time you watch the DVD you’ll pick up something new to help you.
  If you are feeling unhappy then is time to be bold and make the changes you want in your life. Watch True Happiness today and let the changes begin.
  
  
  DVD Chapters
  
  
  
  How to be happy at work – The best job is one you would do even if you weren’t paid for it. You should be passionate about what you do at work, so you look forward to going to work. A job that uses your strengths and incorporates the things you are good at is what you should be looking for.
  How to find happiness – Understand that everything is temporary – especially the bad things you go through. You control how happy you feel – other people do not make you happy or unhappy. Your level of happiness is down to you and what you tell yourself about your world.
  Coping with depression – Understand how to cope with those low spots and discover what you can do to help yourself and who to see to get the help you need.
  The route to happiness – The route to true happiness is right now – today. Always thinking about the past or the future robs you of being happy today. If the way you are living your life is not working then it may be time for change.
  Buying happiness – While buying stuff can make you happy, the buzz can soon wear off. Happiness is a state of mind, an attitude. Learn to think differently and feel more happier and contented as a result.
  The key to happiness – Self belief and accepting who you are and where you are is the start of finding happiness in your life.
  
  
  
  Where to find happiness – Look within. Discover the link between being happy and being contented. Contentment is a stable attitude of mind – learn how to feel contented by being grateful for what you have and what you enjoy.
  
  It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. - Sharon Salzberg
  
  
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  Janice Davies – the lady with nice in her name
  Attitude Specialist
  Professional Speaker * Author * Coach *
  Founder of International
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