2. How to Be Happy No Matter What The truth is you have everything it takes to be happy right now. All we have to do is stop driving it away.
3. Accept What Is and Learn from It Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.
4. Don't Label Anything That Happens as 'Bad' You never really know if anything that happens to you is bad, but labeling it as such increases the probability that you will experience it that way. Don’t do it.
5. Define What You Do by Its Purpose What is the ultimate good to society of what you do? That is what you pour your emotional energy into..
6. Commit Intensely and Joyfully to Everything You Do Be present with and in your current situation. When you do this, you have no time to be bored. Paradoxically, your work transforms itself in ways you could never conceive and propels you to greater fulfillment.
7. You Can Create Miracles—So Do It Recognize that whatever happens is a "miracle" and celebrate it as such. You allow them to happen. The more you celebrate such "miracles," the more they will appear in your life.
8. Remember That Like Attracts Like Think about what kind of feelings you evoke in others. Consciously be sensitive to others and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.
9. Being Is More Important than Doing Who you are being will always show through sooner or later. Remember the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying."
10. Bounce Back Like a Daruma Doll As long as you are in the human predicament, stuff will happen to you. You cannot prevent getting knocked down. But you CAN get right back up again. And you do this by accepting what is and asking “Where do I go from here?” No complaints, no wailing, just a willingness to learn what can be learned and a readiness to then do what must be done.
11. Change your focus to serving others Notice when you believe you are the center of the universe. No matter what happens, you only think in terms of what impact it has on you. But living predominantly in a "me-centered" world guarantees that you will experience dejection, anxiety, boredom, and all the things that make life unhappy. By contrast, consciously think in terms of being of service to others and your life will flower.
12. Let it go! Our problem is that we don’t let things go. We harbor resentments, slights, memories and mental junk from years or decades. Drop that mess. Let it go. That, by itself, leaves room for joy to manifest.
