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Saturday 26 May 2012
Happiness Now by Andrew Matthews
My colleague lent me a book name "HAPPINESS NOW",
written by "ANDREW MATTHEWS" author of million seller FOLLOW YOUR HEART
It is a interesting book with a cartoon can help us to remember the message.
Total pages only 124. After you read this book your life will turned around completely.
It will changed your life around and reading this book was like a helping hand.
It is a great and value book to read it although the prices is not cheap.
I would like to share few chapters which I like it among.
CHAPTER ONE: ONE DAY AT A TIME
(a) When Life Get Tough
"How do you survive when your life gets tough? How do you hang on when you are grieving, lonely or broke?" You can only tackle your problem as you would climb a mountain.
If you go rock climbing - and you get stuck on a ledge - you suddenly focus on the present moment! You forget about the future. All your effort goes into your next step. Then your next step Inch by Inch. Eventually you claw your way out. The same strategy works for everyday life. When things seem desperate, you fix your focus on the present moment. You tackle one problem at a time. You take a step. You get a little confidence and take another step, and another. Eventually you find that the worst is over. If you were to worry about,
a) everything you need to do in the next month, or
b) everything that could go wrong in the next year, you could go nuts!
But you can handle one day at time. And whenever 24 hours is tough, bite off five minutes at time.
In a Nutshell
ALL YOU CAN DO IS GIVE YOUR BEST EFFORT UNTIL BEDTIME. LET TOMORROW TAKE CARE OF ITSELF
(b) Kick the Worry Habbit
Most of us worry. We worry about our jobs, our children and what the neightbours think! Some people will even tell you, "you SHOULD worry!" But worrying is WORSE THAN USELESS! Firstly, it attracts misfortune. Secondly, it is bad for your health! So what should you do about worry? Postpone it! Take action FIRST and postpone worry indefinitely. That's what effective people do. Whenever you wan to worry, ask yourself, "What is the problem right this second?" Guess what you will find unless you are in a life-threatening situation, you don't have a problem! Ofcause, disasters do happen. Illness happen. Financial crises happen. That is no reason to live life like a frightened rabbit. When crises come, you can deal with them MOMENT BY MOMENT. It is only when your mind drifts into the future that it crushes you. And your mind will want to drag you into the future! Stay in the present! Do whatever you can do today - and leave worry out of it. Look at your life. Has there ever been a situation that you didn't survive? There hasn't! You can handle the present. It is just the future that gives you trouble!
In a Nutshell
WHEN IT COMES TO WORRY, PROCRASTINATE! WHEN SOMEONE ASKS, "AREN'T YOU WORRIED ABOUT THAT?" TELL THEM, "I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO WORRY ABOUT IT - BUT I HAVEN'T GOT AROUND TO IT!"
(c) Character
Did you ever look in the mirror and say, "I wish I had a different face, different body and different nose?" Did you ever look at your life and say, "How come other people are so talented and brilliant? How can I feel good about me?" Most of us have these thoughts! But here is the crunch, talent and beauty are very useful - but there are plenty of talented and beautiful people around whom we don't necessarily admire. And some of them are a pain in the neck! Many of history's most admired people - like Abraham Lincoln, Mother Theresa and Mahatma Ghandi - were neither beautiful nor especially gifted. The qualities most of us value above all others are HONESTY, COURAGE, PERSISTENCE, GENEROSITY and HUMILITY. Take a look at this list and you will find something interesting. You are not BORN with these qualities. You DEVELOP them. Anyone can have them. If you really want, you can have them! If you want self-respect, and respect from others,, you don't have to be a genius or a super-model. You simply work at developing your own honesty, determination, generosity, humility and courage. It is called "character"
In a Nutshell
HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOU IS IN YOUR HANDS.
(d) WHY
My friend John Foppe was born with no arms. But John never asks the question, "WHY do I have no arms?" The question he asks is, "WHAT can I do with my feet?" Having watched John eat with chopsticks, I would say, "Almost anything!" When tragedy strikes, or when we lose everything, or when a lover walks out on us, the question we usually ask is "WHY?"
"WHY me?"
"WHY now?"
"WHY did she/he leave me for a loser?"
Asking "WHY?" questions can send us crazy. Often, there is no answer to "WHY?" Or it doesn't matter why!
Effective people ask "WHAT?" questions"WHAT am I going to do about it?"
"WHAT do I learn from this?"
When the situation is really desperate, they ask, "WHAT can I do, just in the next 24 hours, to make things better?"
In a Nutshell
THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE DON'T BOTHER ABOUT WHETHER LIFE IS FAIR. THEY JUST MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT THEY HAVE. AND IS LIFE "FAIR?" PROBABLY NOT. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY!
There have many chapters that I like it alot but I only can share few. I think I'm gonna have one for myself. This book is selling at the book store name Kinokuniya, Singapore.
The book
Cheers,
Nikoru Nicole
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