Create a Happy Attitude - February 2005

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

- Bill Watterson (American author of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, b. 1958)

Greetings! Hope this issue finds you well and happy and moving right along with your New Year's Resolutions.....

Actually, if you are making progress on them, you deserve a standing ovation. You're in the top 10% of resolution makers. The other 90% will have abandoned them by January 31.

P.S. Well.... since January turned into February Monday night somewhere in the middle of writing the first article, I guess that makes this the February issue now. :o

Identifying your core values - those qualities, characteristics and principles that lie close to your heart, that define your integrity, and that give you a foundation to stand on - is is another way to build your mission statement.

You know a value is "core" when it is so fundamental to your nature that you don't have to think about being that way. It comes naturally.

Take some time to think about what's important to you. Some ideas to get you started might be, integrity, joyfulness, confidence, service, spirituality, dedication, honesty. Choose some of these or add your own. Make a list of about 10.

Next, choose three or four that are the most important to you and arrange them into a mission statement. For instance, if you chose joyfulness, honesty, dedication and service, your sentence might read, "My personal mission is to ensure that I bring honesty, dedication, and service joyfully into everything I do for others."

You may find that one value is more important to you than any of the others. For example, if justice seems to be the number one value that matters, then your statement might be, "My personal mission is to ensure that everyone is treated with justice."

You now have a basis on which to determine if you are living in alignment with your core values. Values in themselves are not emotions. But the emotions that you experience in any given situation will be an indication of whether you are honoring your core values or not.

Adapted and excerpted from Attracting Perfect Customers - the Power of Strategic Synchronicity, by Stacey Hall and Jan Brogniez, pp. 21-24.

You know... you don't have to wait until the dawning of a new year to re-evaluate where you are in life, to look at where you've been and make choices about where you want to be. You don't even have to wait for a computer crash or some other dreadful thing to happen before you start over!

Every month, every week, every day is a new beginning - a time to start fresh, a time to decide what it is you want.

Even within each day there are segments of time. When you get out of bed, till the time you get in your car to go to work - that's a segment. Driving to work is a different segment. Your work day is divided into segments, and on throughout your day.

I invite you to use these segments - these "fresh starts" within your day to practice deciding what you want. Take a small "time out" at the beginning of each segment and set your intention for what you want to happen and how you want to feel.

Then say a "thank you" in advance to God, the Universe, or whatever name you use to refer to that Higher Power that permeates our world, and watch for the results.

Step into each new segment knowing that the right thing for you will happen. Know that you are divinely guided. Expect a miracle!

Then, if you're willing, I'd love to hear your results! Send an email and tell me how this Time Out Tip worked for you.

"Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished
at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions
of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret,
but it cannot. It rapidly crystallizes into habit,
and habit solidifies into circumstance."

James Allen (1864-1912), an English author whose "little volume," as he called it, has been translated into five major languages, inspiring millions of readers around the world. As A Man Thinketh is partially responsible for launching an entire self-improvement industry, and has influenced many contemporary writers including Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale, Denis Waitley and countless others.

You may download your free copy by clicking on the banner link above. Enjoy!

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This fun on-line test was introduced to me by Paul Willis, a fellow blogger friend from the United Kingdom. It will take you about 5 minutes. Just answer the 20 questions around your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and other sorts of things, and Belief-O-Matic^TM will tell you what religion you practice.... or you should think about practicing! I was very surprised at the results.... (check out Journey to Perfection, to discover my results.)

Paul's weblog, 'Off The Beaten Track' has some very thought provoking, informative posts around the subject of Christianity and spirituality. I encourage you stop by and have a read.

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