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Live on purpose. Joyful aliveness connects you with your purpose. Learn the skills you need to
create Joy. Discover the activities and pursuits that make your heart sing! These engaging activities provide clues to your purpose.If you want to maintain desperation and unhappiness, then believe that life has no purpose.2.
Create joy right now. No other time exists. Only the present moment contains the spark of life!You may also create
misery by constantly wanting to speed ahead to some other time. Most people live their lives wanting to exist elsewhere and elsewhen.3.
Accept total responsibility for your life! You create your reality and your emotions. Your power and focus exceed your wildest dreams.You can choose to blame and whine, pretending that your life situation came from without, rather than from within. As within, so without. Accept total responsibility for all.4.
Act in boldness. Take on challenges and pursue lofty goals. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles provide some of the most exquisite joys in life.To create misery, play it totally safe. Never do anything scary or risky. Follow your fears and let them guide your actions. For happiness and joy - feel the fear, and do it anyway!5.
Expect joy. Hope consists of a perfect expectation of desirable things to come. Picture desirable things to come. You choose what to
think about, and visualize in your mind's eye!Despair consists of a perfect expectation of undesirable things to come. To
increase despair,
simply imagine in detail terrible things that may happen to you. The better your imagination, the deeper the despair. You get what you truly expect, so expect joy.6.
Increase your awareness. Feel your emotions consciously. Identify your core beliefs. Constantly learn and grow from the inside. Your unhealthy attitudes, habits, and behaviors will start to drop away like fall leaves.To maintain apathy and misery, just remain unaware. Allow clarity to flee from you like a deer from a hunter. Remain in unconsciousness and cloudiness - afraid to explore your beliefs.7.
Build your connections. Our relationships give life meaning and joy. All of us truly connect to one another in the inner world. Building connections in the physical world builds on this inner reality and supports increased life for all!To create misery, simply separate yourself from others. Think that you exist as an independent entity, and other people merely drag you down. Insisting on separateness in defiance of the truth of connectedness is an active pursuit of unreality.8.
Learn and read daily. We grow in large measure due to the people we meet and the books we read. Did you read 52 books last year? We create joy when we grow and increase our wisdom.To prevent joy, try not to meet any new people this year, and don't read any new books either. Simply stay just the same person with the exact same ideas. For optimal joy, go for optimal growth and learning!9.
Serve other people. Truly recognize other people as real people, with needs and wants just like your own. Think how you can bring a smile to someone, and then do it! Give increased life in every encounter. You will increase your joy.To create misery, ignore other people and totally concern yourself with your own needs. Don't think of other people as real.10.
Prioritize your actions. Know your goals and purposes, and put power and faith into every action. Do each action with focus and purpose, and know why you choose the activities you expend your energy on.If you want to decrease joy, simply do as many things as you can each day. Never think of which items connect with your goals, simply busy yourself with work.______________________Put these ten principles into your life to create more joy!
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