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 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 breadth 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 our self 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 eight keys
to happiness vs. the delusional desires for prosperity we can learn how to truly realize
lasting happiness in our lives.
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