Every year come July, we celebrate our wonderful and unique Declaration of Independence. One phrase that I have been thinking about lately is “the pursuit of happiness.” As a Life Coach and Retreat Leader, much of my work is helping people define what happiness means to them and how to invite it into their lives. So what does it mean that it is our God given right to pursue happiness

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How do you define success? Success means different things to everybody. Therefore, there is only one true personal success in the world and that is when you live your own way with your own inner truth. You must define what personal success means to you. Does it mean….

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Having confidence is an essential ingredient for successfully achieving goals. Although it is a valued characteristic, there are many untruths, mistaken beliefs, myths, surrounding what confidence is.

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Have you ever wondered why rich people seem to get richer easily while those in the poverty cycle seem destined to be stuck there forever? The reason is simple. You need to think and act like a rich person first before you can really be rich. Let’s take a look at some of the characteristics of rich people.

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It happens. Often. Why? We just secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Doubleday Business, 2008), to discuss our Dark Side (well, he calls if “different hidden forces” and “psychological undercurrents”). For example, look at the story of Harvard Business School students who paid $204 for a twenty-dollar bill.

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Fear has a way of paralyzing us. We give it a foothold and next thing we’re full of anxiety; immediately captive. Suddenly we’re fighting for life. It can bring a raft of psychosomatic symptoms and signs. Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way. Resilience is the key to responding actively to fear.

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Consider the possibility that everything happening in your life right now is exactly the experience you need for your growth. Your relationships, your finances, your health your mental states are all outer reflections of inner truths. The Old World view is that events are preordained. The New World view is that nothing happens that you are not a part of. Fate is the lament of the victim. Destiny is living your higher purpose.

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If you’ve ever been stuck in a rut before, you probably know the sense of helplessness that takes over your life. You want your life to change, but you feel powerless to do anything about it yourself. You may find yourself constantly making plans to improve your life, but never quite getting around to taking action because it seems so intimidating.

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Jim Rohn said everything in life matters, somethings a little and somethings a lot, we just don’t know which is which. A young man learned the hard way that there is truth in that statement.Because of that lesson the author changed his life completely and moved into another phase of his life. It was a tough lesson for both the young man and the author.It truly was a life-changing event that impacted many peoples lives for a very long time.

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There exists a current debate over whether behaving in a socially caring manner, or social altruism, is a learned behavior or whether human beings are hard wired, or genetically predisposed, to behave in such a way. There are surely rational arguments for each side. However, some studies indicate that altruism is indeed hard wired into the human brain as well as the brains of several other species. In essence, humans can’t help the urge to help.

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