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Be Cool Like Barack Obama
Do You Want To Be Cool Like Barack Obama?
A Key Happiness Habit is:
Don’t hand control of your thoughts, actions or feelings over to outside forces or people who try to hurt or harass you.
Don’t Give Them Emotional Control Over You.
Decide How You Are Going To Think, Act and Feel.
Choose Your Mood and Your Attitude.
Emotional Independence, Freedom and Balance are key Happiness Habits.
This does NOT mean that you don’t get angry or that you don’t decide to take decisive corrective action when necessary.
It does mean you weigh options carefully, decide when and how you will act and that you don’t just automatically react in anger.
Choose the timing, the place and substance of your response carefully.
We all have an Optimal Best Self – a sweet spot or optimal zone where we feel our best, do our best and perform our best. Habitually Happy people try to maintain their optimal Best Self State all of the time. Getting angry and irrational is not part of their process.
Much has been written about Barack Obama’s Cool calm demeanor. His actions and reactions epitomize Emotional Independence. He decides how he will act, react and project himself. He doesn’t let outside forces control his emotions easily.
If you let another person make you angry, you’re giving them control of your thoughts, actions, feelings and your well-being. Don’t do it!
Don’t Help Them Hurt You.
The next time someone tries to hook you into an angry response, simply think, “I’m not giving you control.” It’s that easy.
This does not mean stuffing your feelings or suppressing your emotions. It means not giving them control over you, your attention or your emotions.
Channel Anger Into Activism And Actions That Achieve Positive Goals.
Choose Emotional Independence and Spiritual Freedom. It’s that easy. Decide how you’re going to act, don’t simply react to them. Take command and lead interactions in the direction you want to go. Make this a Happiness Habit.
It’s a great way to stay cool and happy!
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Happy New Year 2009!
Exciting New Changes Are Coming With The New Year…
Happiness·Hope·Change – HappinessHopeChange.com – Celebrating our January 20th Inauguration and the messages and lessons it carries
– and – Resolve To Be Happy – ResolveToBeHappy.com – sharing specific steps to turn Happiness Resolutions into powerfully effective Happiness Solutions
have been added to the HappinessHabit.com website.
During 2009 we’ll continue to develop specific Happiness subject web sites targeted to address specific needs, uses and desires.
As you know, HappinessBlog.com has evolved and changed significantly through the years.
Our first postings in 2005 described basic Happiness Habits and the important tenets for living a happy, spiritually successful life.
Having covered Happiness Habits both here and in other postings through the years, HappinessBlog.com began to emphasize current Happiness news, research and events.
New readers may not want to dig back several years to read our initial happiness postings. We’ll leave them in place in their original form to preserve the links.
We will also rewrite and refocus many of our materials in new and exciting ways during 2009 to focus on specific needs and uses.
Our more contentious commentary regarding current Happiness research and coverage will be migrated to a separate site with a new name.
HappinessBlog.com will return to it’s powerfully positive theme and tone. We’ll try to keep abreast of news items supported by permanent links to happiness materials that could be of interest and help to large groups of people.
We hope you will enjoy the new look, tone and approach for HappinessBlog.com during the coming year!
Very best New Year’s wishes,
Michele Moore and the
Happiness Habit Team
Happiness Expanding & Updated
We’ve not been silent the past few months!
HappinessHabit.com
has expanded and embraced and exciting new scope and look!
We’ll be emphasizing Happiness In Hard Times – How To Be Happy When Times Are Tough & Help Others To Be Happy Too in coming months.
See new postings:
Breaking Blocks To Learning
on
Happiness Habits For Families
and
Seven Steps to Seeing Communications Clearly
and the
Power of Truth
on
Fight With Finesse.
Explore HappinessHabit.com to expand and enhance your happiness!
Copyright © 2008, Michele Moore. All Rights Reserved. This material may NOT be published, broadcast, distributed or rewritten without permission from the authors.
The Pope’s Happiness & Fat?!!!
Are God and Jesus Christ are the only true sources of happiness?
“Sometimes, the person who has everything he could desire is still not happy; meanwhile someone deprived of everything, even freedom or health, can be joyful and peaceful, if God is within his heart. ”
~ Pope Benedict XVI
We both agree and disagree!
Certainly many church teachings are central and crucial to living a happy, spiritually successful life. Compassion, goodness, honesty, virtue and truth are the basis of a happy life.
We also know many very religious people who are not especially happy. Some of the most horrendous crimes in history were committed with a false sense of religious righteousness.
Some of the happiness people in the world are Buddhists who do not have a concept of God that is central to our Judaeo Christian creed. Buddhists do have compelling teachings about compassion, care and concern for others that are central to their beliefs.
It is these values, we believe, that bring Buddhists happiness. The ancient Greeks agreed, “A man who is not virtuous will never be happy.” ~ Epicurus
Herb Benham jokes about a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine reporting that fat men are less likely to commit suicide than thin men!? One wonders if worry is keeping people thin and unhappy.
Taking pride in feeling good and looking good is important source of happiness! We don’t believe habitually over eating is a healthy, enduring source of joy.
What do you think? Post your comments below!
See HappinessHabit.com for more resources.
Copyright 1999- , Michele Moore. All Rights Reserved. Reprints.
Happiness Blog Expanding!
Happiness Blog is moving, expanding and will include current happiness articles of interest.
See HappinessHabit.com for a listing of Happiness Habits.
We’ll continue to respond to reader’s comments and what we read, like this for example:
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” was posted by the Happiness Institute today…
“A negative judgment is the force behind all fears, anxieties and worries!”
Why say any day “May not be good?” When you start off that way, your negative projections can become a self fulfilling prophecy! Why not say, “How can I make the best of this day and every day?”
The International Herald Tribune writes Darrin McMahon author of “Happiness: A History” still has problems defining Happiness, so does Hootiepalooza who writes.. Wikipedia defines happiness As an effective state?!!!
Why not try our Happiness Habit definition… ”
A happy life is generally…
Pleasant & Pleasing,
Purposeful & Productive,
Prosperous & Spiritually Successful!”
“Happiness is the energized, elevated emotion we experience when we enjoy, appreciate or achieve a worthwhile goal.”
Deciding what happiness means to us helps us decide what steps we can take to attain it. For more insights see our Happiness Habit resources.
Tell us if you like our new approach. It may be a bit redundant at times, but repeating key concepts helps them to be reinforced and retained. That’s the way to build happiness!
See HappinessHabit.com for more happiness resources.
Copyright 2007, Michele Moore. All Rights Reserved. Reprints.
