Quick video I shot this morning about living happy! Just a few thoughts about Living Happy! Happiness is really not all that difficult thing to experience. Here are three things that we can do to live happy:
1. Live In Relationship! You were created by a Creator, Who has an amazing plan and purpose for your life. Get this, believe this and live this and it will make an incredible difference in your life.
2. Live With Gratitude! We have so much to be thankful for. Just by taking time to think about it – changes our lives. Think about all you have to be grateful for on a regular basis.
3. Live Your Choice! You decide for you. You cannot do it for me and I cannot do it for you. Happiness is a choice that each of us make for ourselves. Stop playing the game and start enjoying all that the Creator has put around you.
I am one week into my evolving plan to live a higher life. I thought I would take just a moment to share a big idea that seems to have come through from what I am learning every day. The big idea for this week is: You Have A Choice!
You get to make a choice about how you are going to respond to life. You can respond in a negative or positive way – it is totally up to you about how you respond. Once you get focused on the reality of this truth, there are some things that you can do, to unleash its power in your moment by moment living.
Here are three ideas worth considering:
1.) Take Negatives Out! There are people and places that you do not need to be around and that you do not need around you. This will pull you down, before you pull it up, so take some time to step away, so that you can get yourself strong and then when you have yourself in a good place and are ready, you can try to help others. Remember: What you allow to come into your life has influence. The question that should determine if it is allowed in or not is simply this: Is this adding more than it’s taking away. If the answer is no, then you know the tough decision you have to make.
Use your five senses to apply this: Don’t allow your sight to focus on anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your hearing to listen to anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your touch to feel anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow yourself to taste to cause you to eat anything that is not adding value. Don’t allow your smell to lead you into a bad indulgence that is not adding value.
2.) Put Positives In! You will find that when you start to get rid of negatives, that you will need to replace them with something. If we fail to replace them with good and productive positives, then other negatives will find a way to fill the void.
Look for positive relationships that build you and allow you to build others. Listen to encouraging and upbeat stuff. Get in touch with your feelings and learn to allow them to provide direction support for where you need to go and what you need to do. Taste that life is good and take some time to stop and smell the roses, that you most of the time rush by without even realizing that they are there.
3.) Build A System! None of this happens by accident, so make sure that you are taking a little time everyday to build a system. Get a journal and pen and begin to record what you are learning and the insights that this different way of living is providing. Take time to write down at least five new things that you are thankful for everyday. Make plans for your dreams to become reality by putting pen to paper.
Your Creator has amazing things in store for you – don’t miss it! Thanks so much for taking time to let me share with you and I would love it, if you would share back with me. Leave me a comment or send me an email. I hope you have a great weekend and until the next time we meet – live blessed!
1. Expectation! We all have desires, what we want, what we wish, but we need to learn that there is a very big difference between what we desire and what we expect. Desire can be a good and powerful thing, but only if we learn to fix our expectation, so that it rewards our desires. If your expectation is wrong, then everything else in your life will be thrown in the wrong direction. Desire is the spark, but expectation is the fire. Expectation gets it’s power from faith. God created you, loves you and has an amazing plan for your life. Expect great and miraculous things and your faith will manifest the incredible. Set your heart on the things of God and expect His blessings to flow and they most certainly will!
What He Has Is Best!
2. Acceptance! When God begins to move in and through your life, it is an incredible and amazing thing. God plants a desire in your heart and gives you the faith the expect that desire to become a reality, but you still have to do your part. Many times in life, we cannot possess what our Creator has for us, because we do not accept what our Creator is offering us. The heart of expectation created by God will lead the soul to accept the mighty and amazing things of God. Spiritual blessing is yours, but you have to receive it, take it and use it!
A Leap Of Faith!
3. Trust! Our Creator is the great promise maker and the great promise keeper! As we learn to live in obedient surrender to Him, He gives us a life abundant and everlasting that is greater than anything that we could dream or imagine. When we learn to live a life of trust, God gets glory. Our glorified God is worthy of our trust. Sometimes in order to trust Him, I have to get myself and my will out-of-the-way. Sometimes the choice is between me and Him! Do I trust myself or do I trust Him? It should be a no brainer, but it’s not always so simple. Trusting in Him is an act of faith, which allows me to say with my actions and reactions that His will is better than mine!
Expect, Accept and Trust! These three steps will begin a wonderful and amazing journey, which will allow you to live an amazing life, not just for today, but for all eternity!
Michael Joe Harvell 