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Holiday Happiness

(Week 6)

January 4, 2010

It’s 2010 … a new year and a new decade. I hope the year has started off fantastic (and happy) for you. And, I also really hope this Holiday Happiness series (which started on the 1^st of December) helped make your 2009 holiday season more joyful, less stressful and more memorable.

Did you include some of the strategies and concepts detailed in the previous five weeks of this series into your holidays? If you did, I am confident your holidays were better than they would normally have been - even if they're normally great. If not, please use the concepts here in this last edition of the Holiday Happiness series, since it will help make 2010 much better.

Firstly, have you made your New Year’s resolutions? What about your New Year’s commitments?

I hope so. But if not, please go back and read Week 5 of the Holiday Happiness series, which is all about making - and achieving - New Year’s resolutions (just click here to access Week 5).

Next (once you’ve read Week 5 of Holiday Happiness) make sure to subscribe to the BeHappy! Newsletter if you aren’t already a subscriber. It’s a $150 annual value - but FREE to you as a visitor to BeHappy101.com. The most recent edition of the newsletter (released December 31^st) takes New Year’s resolutions to a higher level – by making them action-oriented commitments for a better chance of success (click here to subscribe free).

And finally, as part of this New Year kick-off process, make sure to read the 3-part BeHappy! series on goals to get an even more complete system for achieving whatever you want for 2010 and beyond.

Now, with that information available, the goal of this final installment of the Holiday Happiness series is to really get you moving on making 2010 your best, happiest year ever. While that’s a big objective – especially with the difficult 2009 most people experienced – it is certainly do-able. And by the way, if your “happiness level” is not as high as it should be right now because of the difficult economy we’ve been experiencing over the past year, you should also read the 4-part series called Overcoming Fear to Thrive in the Current Downward Economic Cycle. It could help make you much happier by reducing some of the negative effects this recession may be having on your life and prepare you for whatever direction the economy takes over the next year. It could even get you on a path to wealth beyond where you are now (if wealth is something important to you).

Creating and maintaining the happiest possible life requires a proactive, “habitual” approach. This website, and the entire BeHappy! system (which includes my first book, BeHappy! and my bi-monthly BeHappy! Newsletter) can make a tremendous difference in your life if used consistently.

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Your Definition of Happiness

To achieve the objective of making 2010 your best, happiest year ever, I want to devote this final edition of this series to the most important starting point for anyone to be as happy as possible; and that is ... creating your own personal Definition of Happiness).

We are all different in what would make us happy in life. What would make me happy is likely different from what would make you happy. So, to start off the new year, make sure you know your own personal Definition of Happiness. In other words, if you were to state what would make you totally happy in life, what would you say? That's not always an easy thing to do. It can require considerable thought and introspection. But, it is one of the most important first steps to leading a happy life. So, if you don’t already know what would make you totally happy, take whatever time you need to create it now – and write it down.

If you need help getting to your own personal definition, check out the first chapter of BeHappy (my first book on happiness). I devote the entire first chapter of the book to helping anyone figure out what will truly lead to the happiest possible life. You can also click here for a basic “primer” on the subject as a first step. Or, for an even more direct and immediate approach to figuring out exactly what would make you totally happy in life, please take advantage of my E-Coaching program. I provide a FREE introductory session to visitors (like you) to this website. Just click here to take advantage of this great offer. It will surely help you start 2010 off right.

Now, to conclude this Holiday Happiness series, let me give you one last exercise which could either help you create your definition of happiness – or, if you already know that definition – could help you fulfill it more easily.

Here’s what to do:

During the rest of the month of January, write down – everyday – something you want to do, achieve, see, experience, or contribute in your life. It could be as “small” as “see the Grand Canyon” or as “big” as “go on a year-long ‘mission’ helping to feed starving people in a third world country”.

It could be related to your personal life (like “have a child”) or to your professional life (like “become the CEO of a Fortune-500 company”). It could be contribution-related (like “become a big-brother or big-sister to a needy kid”) or financially related (like “build a five-million-dollar net worth”).

Whatever it is, write it down. And do it every single day for the rest of January. By the end of the month, you will have a list of 20-25 things you want to do or experience during your life.

Then, use the information I’ve mentioned in this article (like the goal-setting series) and you’ll be able to fine-tune and “crystallize” that list into some powerful, action-oriented desires and plans for 2010 (and beyond) that will make you happier.

So make sure to write down something everyday – regardless of how small or insignificant it may seem right now. Everything could be important to your ultimate happiness – and the happiness of those you love.

Thanks for being a part of this Holiday Happiness series, and for contributing to my happiness by helping to make this website – and my whole BeHappy! system – more powerful, beneficial, and successful.

Please use this website regularly to keep focused on the positives of life, appreciate what we have (rather than dwell on what’s missing), and maintain maximum “productivity” towards consistently making life better. We may all need it more than ever in 2010! So it’s important to realize that these tools can make any time of the year happier, more fulfilling, and more productive. In fact, I would venture to say that if you were to use, practice, and implement many of the concepts here in your daily life – throughout the year - you will be much, much happier a year from now than you are today, regardless of the circumstances and difficulties you will encounter along the way (and which we all encounter in this crazy, complex world today).

For all of 2010 (and beyond)...

BeHappy! my friends

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