"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude"
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Your Vision To Action Weekly Inspiration | Joy
"May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility."
~Mary Anne Radmacher
Your Vision To Action Weekly Inspiration | New Beginnings
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Your Vision To Action Weekly Inspiration | Step by Step
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Your Vision To Action Weekly Inspiration | Our Full Potential
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. ~ Winston Churchill
Your Vision To Action Weekly Inspirations | New Direction
"What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction"
-Oprah Winfrey
Your Vision to Action Weekly Inspirations | Your Actions
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Vision To Action Weekly Inspirations | Change
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~Jim Rohn
HOLDING ONTO HAPPINESS
Deep happiness is not something that just appears. Deep happiness is cultivated through the choices you make. Your choices influence your perspective. How you perceive your personal world allows you to imagine how it would be if something were added, changed or eliminated. That’s how dreams come about. You have an idea that your world would be better if _____which creates a desire to _____ which turns into a vision that holds the hope that true happiness will follow.
At the end of the day, what most of us desire is to be happy. Happy with ourselves, happy with enough money, good health, good friends, a significant other, a nice place to live, good food etc. Our expectation is that the sense of happiness comes with it all. Commonly asked questions are: Will it make you happy? Does money bring happiness?
I ask my clients, “What do you want and will it bring you happiness?” I’ve heard all kinds of answers from ‘what are you crazy, of course it will make me happy” to “I’m not sure, but I want it anyway?” And therein lies the dilemma! What is happiness and more importantly, what is happiness for you?
When my clients seek out coaching, they bring desire, vision and hope that they can achieve what they feel will improve their lives. They are seekers of happiness who possess the motivation and courage to invest in themselves. It is through the process of working together that we turn their vision of happiness into reality.
Questions to Ponder:
What does the “feeling of happy’ feels like? Have the demands of daily living overwhelmed my ability to feel happy? Does my happiness come from someone else? Am I happy only when I’m somewhere other than where I am? What do I need to feel happy?
If you are happy with yourself and your environment hold onto it. It is precious! Life is too short to waste energy being disappointed.
Would love to hear about your happiness! Wishing you happiness ….. Chris
PAUSE A MOMENT
At this time of transition from the long cold, grey winter days to the much awaited sunny spring, we might take a moment to ask ourselves if we take life for granted? Often we're busy filling our thoughts with what we don’t have. I wonder, when do we think about what we do have and what we like about this life that we wake up to every day.
I was at a meeting not too long ago when all of a sudden one of my colleagues, taking a sip of water, began choking. Of course, we were stunned, some of us ran for help while others prepared to deliver the Heimlich maneuver. Our colleague recovered but all of us were frightened that something as simple as swallowing water could end up so life threatening. However, another friend of mine wasn’t so fortunate. She was on a long awaited cruise vacation, having loads of fun, when she slipped, hitting her head which left her in a coma. She died three months later never speaking another word. As we remember the 2013 Boston Marathon , I think of the robust runners and hopeful supporters so involved with the joy of the day, when something disastrous stopped their lives without notice. In Boston, it was a bomb… for my friend, it was a fall… for those of us who still have our lives to live, we came away with a heightened awareness of the fragility of life.
I certainly don’t like to think of bad things happening when we least expect it, especially during fun times…such a drag! But, while we’re transitioning from heavy coats to lighter jackets, eagerly awaiting those consistent sunny spring days, maybe we could pause a moment, fill our thoughts with all that we have and give thanks for being alive ... which leads me to the question, "How do you honor your life?"
In my estimation, enjoying your life is your birthright, being happy is allowed. As you know, I’m all about you livin' your dream! What if you recall how “happy” feels, then duplicate it at least once a day?
Enjoy every day … Blessings, Chris