When you pursue the right end goals while making sure you’re happy in the now, happiness unlocks the door for luck to come calling.
It’s like nature is just trying to create all the time, and it’s looking for people who are awake. It’s looking for people who are willing to raise their hands and bring something from the unmanifest into the manifest.
Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life to let the next big thing enter.
If you can choose any model of reality you want and accept it as true – why not choose a model that suggests that you can literally bend reality to your wishes?
Failure is often nothing more than good luck in disguise: the destruction of an old way of life so you can create the next grand vision of yourself.
Every crappy experience I’ve had – from having my heart broken, to almost having to leave my own company due to a conflict with a business partner, to depression and staring down gaping dark holes of the mind – led to some small-but-significant insight or awakening that boosted the quality of my life and made me stronger.
For example, once a month I might actually skip going to the gym one day and instead read about new workout routines, buy a new fitness app, or study a new fitness method to optimize my gym time. This is what I mean by the discovery process. You step back from what you’re doing and seek to discover new ways to do it better.
There’s nothing more captivating than a person vibrant with life and passion and pursuing their calling.
If so much of what we call life is mostly created by our thoughts and beliefs, then much of what we take to be real – all the constructs, rules, and “shoulds” of the culturescape – is nothing more than an accidental tweak of history.
Talking openly about your dreams and end goals helps to make them a reality. It’s rare that people confide their dreams – or even admit them to themselves. The Three Most Important Questions exercise brings dreams to light for the universe – that’s you, me, and the mysterious beyond. That’s what makes the Three Most Important Questions exercise one of the most powerful ideas in this book.
As a bonus tip, remember that once you know the blueprint for your team members or a family member, you can always practice giving by offering them simple little gifts or reminders to help them grow.
What positive mark do you want to leave on the world in your lifetime?
Kristina asked, “How is it possible to be happy when seeing so much misery and tragedy every day?” The Dalai Lama’s answer was actually a question, and it was simply this: “But who can you help if you’re unhappy?” And.
The desire to feel happy or think positively all the time hinders many people’s authentic existence. It lowers resilience.
Sometimes we follow beliefs that don’t serve our happiness, but that feel as if they reflect an accepted and inescapable way of life.
Law 3: Practice consciousness engineering. Extraordinary minds understand that their growth depends on two things: their models of reality and their systems for living. They carefully curate the most empowering models and systems and frequently update themselves.
Law 4: Rewrite your models of reality. Extraordinary minds have models of reality that empower them to feel good about themselves and powerful in shifting the world to match the visions in their minds.
Law 5: Upgrade your systems for living. Extraordinary minds consistently spend time discovering, upgrading, and measuring new systems for living applied to life, work, heart, and soul. They are in a perpetual state of growth and self-innovation.
We’ve created a society where it’s considered normal to wake up with feelings of stress, anxiety, fear, and worry. But it isn’t. These feelings aren’t meant to be constant states. They’re alarm systems, evolved to alert us to things we need to deal with, not just live with. You’re not supposed to hate your work or dread your day. “Happy hour” shouldn’t be the drinks you have on Friday to celebrate getting through another week.
Law 6: Bend reality. Extraordinary minds are able to bend reality. They have bold and exciting visions for the future, yet their happiness is not tied to these visions. They are happy in the now. This balance allows them to move toward their visions at a much faster rate while having a ton of fun along the way. To outsiders, they seem “lucky.