July 9, 2012

15 things you should give up to be happy

1. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO ALWAYS BE RIGHTThere are so many of us who can’t stand the idea of being wrong – wanting to always be right – even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain, for us and for others. It’s just not worth it. Whenever you feel the ‘urgent’ need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question: “Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?”- Wayne Dyer. What difference will that make? Is your ego really that big? 

2. GIVE UP YOUR NEED FOR CONTROLBe willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you – situations, events, people, etc. Whether they are loved ones, coworkers, or just strangers you meet on the street – just allow them to be. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they are and you will see how much better will that make you feel. “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu 

3. GIVE UP ON BLAME  - Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don’t have, for what you feel or don’t feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life. 

4. GIVE UP YOUR SELF-DEFEATING SELF-TALK - Oh my. How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don’t believe everything that your mind is telling you – especially if it’s negative and self-defeating. You are better than that. “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.” Eckhart Tolle

5. GIVE UP YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS - about what you can or cannot do, about what is possible or impossible. From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in the wrong place. Spread your wings and fly! “A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle 

6. GIVE UP COMPLAINING - Give up your constant need to complain about those many, many, maaany things – people, situations, events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It’s not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. Never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

7. GIVE UP THE LUXURY OF CRITICISM - Give up your need to criticize things, events or people that are different than you. We are all different, yet we are all the same. We all want to be happy, we all want to love and be loved and we all want to be understood. We all want something, and something is wished by us all.

8. GIVE UP YOUR NEED TO IMPRESS OTHERS - Stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not just to make others like you. It doesn’t work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to be something that you’re not, the moment you take off all your masks, the moment you accept and embrace the real you, you will find people will be drawn to you, effortlessly.

9. GIVE UP YOUR RESISTANCE TO CHANGE - Change is good. Change will help you move from A to B. Change will help you make improvements in your life and also the lives of those around you. Follow your bliss, embrace change – don’t resist it. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” Joseph Campbell 

10. GIVE UP LABELS - Stop labeling those things, people or events that you don’t understand as being weird or different and try opening your mind, little by little. Minds only work when open. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Wayne Dyer 

11. GIVE UP ON YOUR FEARS - Fear is just an illusion, it doesn’t exist – you created it. It’s all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside will fall into place. “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 

12. GIVE UP YOUR EXCUSES - Send them packing and tell them they’re fired. You no longer need them. A lot of times we limit ourselves because of the many excuses we use. Instead of growing and working on improving ourselves and our lives, we get stuck, lying to ourselves, using all kind of excuses – excuses that 99.9% of the time are not even real.

13. GIVE UP THE PAST - I know, I know. It’s hard. Especially when the past looks so much better than the present and the future looks so frightening, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the present moment is all you have and all you will ever have. The past you are now longing for – the past that you are now dreaming about – was ignored by you when it was present. Stop deluding yourself. Be present in everything you do and enjoy life. After all life is a journey not a destination. Have a clear vision for the future, prepare yourself, but always be present in the now.

14. GIVE UP ATTACHMENT - This is a concept that, for most of us is so hard to grasp and I have to tell you that it was for me too, (it still is) but it’s not something impossible. You get better and better at with time and practice. The moment you detach yourself from all things, (and that doesn’t mean you give up your love for them – because love and attachment have nothing to do with one another, attachment comes from a place of fear, while love… well, real love is pure, kind, and self less, where there is love there can’t be fear, and because of that, attachment and love cannot coexist) you become so peaceful, so tolerant, so kind, and so serene. You will get to a place where you will be able to understand all things without even trying. A state beyond words.

15. GIVE UP LIVING YOUR LIFE TO OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS - Way too many people are living a life that is not theirs to live. They live their lives according to what others think is best for them, they live their lives according to what their parents think is best for them, to what their friends, their enemies and their teachers, their government and the media think is best for them. They ignore their inner voice, that inner calling. They are so busy with pleasing everybody, with living up to other people’s expectations, that they lose control over their lives. They forget what makes them happy, what they want, what they need….and eventually they forget about themselves. You have one life – this one right now – you must live it, own it, and especially don’t let other people’s opinions distract you from your path.


14 comments:

Anonymous said...

So does that mean you are not rubbishing and complaining about that lawyer any more? You seem really good at being all holy-er than everyone else, but still write such nasty things about other people who speak against you.

I am just saying that it seems like you are more guilty of censoring people than anyone else but you say whatever you want even when it ruins people. That is not very nice.

Jacqueline said...

Move on sock puppet. :-)

Anonymous said...

Wow that comment seems a lil harsh and uncalled for considering Your so happy and living by the creed You have posted ... You must really like winding people up _Yoiu are mentioned in quite a few threads ... and sorry to say none of them are nice or complimentary !!! Maybe take a step back and REALLY re-assess what You have written ... and try a Lil harder to abide by it !

Jacqueline said...

I won. They lost.

Time to move on sock puppets.

:-)

Anonymous said...

Have you actually read what you posted or did you just copy and paste? Seems like most of your blog is devoted to judging others. Wasn't it Jesus whgo said "Judge not, lest ye be judged"?

And before you reply with your usual wit and intelligenece, I am not one of the sock puppets. You'll just have to come up with another way of dismissing me so you can maintain your cognitive dissonance.

Jacqueline said...

No one cares - except you/them.

Time to stop obsessing over me - sock puppet.

:-)

Anonymous said...

Some people use 100% of their wit like the last person who posted. However, when faced with criticism, you seem to lose 50% of your wit. Your responses and obsession, all the time crying that you are not obsessed, is highly amusing. Thanks for the on-going entertainment.

Being called a sock puppet by someone who publishes how they will let things go, and how they will pull down what seem to me are really nasty posts, and who then keeps on obsessing is totally priceless. So glad you do not know me.

Jacqueline said...

Ugh.

I don't need to waste any percentage of my wit on this.

I guess i should remind/tell you that i can tell how many people are reading my blog at any point in time and those IP addresses.

Stop obsessing - or at least get your 26 personalities to take their conversation elsewhere.

I'm not removing the truth from my blog and you harassing me on posts that have nothing to do with anything that you are talking about is not going to change that.

Next time you don't want the truth on the internet - don't litigate vexatiously and you probably won't have anything to worry about.

There are four people (not including multiple personalities) that still care about this - Dr and Mrs Doolittle, their crazy friend, and some half wit with a anti islamic hate blog - none of which are people who i particularly give a rat's about their opinion of me.

Stop obsessing and move on.
:-)

Anonymous said...

You've made a lot of noise and a number of very strong, extreme even, statements about the people who sought a restraining order against you over the months.

You've made these assertions without any evidence being offered, these are serious statements, you were sued over them and yet you think that everyone observing with questions about your conduct is really one of them pretending to be a third party?

Sorry, but that's just naive.

The media wouldn't have been interested if there was no public interest in your claims and their legal opposition to them. The case was landmark.

You've really got to put up some evidence or retract, you can't say thing about people like their perjuring themselves or they're drug addicts, con artists, psycho stalkers, mental, yada yada without evidence. You're publicly attacking their character and reputions for fucks sake.

You thinking people other than them aren't interested and don't have a low view of you for your obsessive hate campaign for which you've not been able to prove a single thing was true about is naive, incredibly so.

Jacqueline said...

Two words for your "landmark case"

Applications. Dismissed.

:-)

PS - i would prefer it if you would refrain from swearing on my blog. It doesn't reflect well on you.

Anonymous said...

Sorry for adding my 2c worth also but...

Please, let me get this straight, you believe the words "applications dismissed" mean you can just carry right on as you have been for the past 6 months?

If I were you I'd be worried about hearing four words in response to this belief:

"You've. Just. Been. Served."

But maybe that's just me.

Jacqueline said...

AB -

Not sure why you are concerned about putting your 2 cents in now - you never have been before. You did go quiet after the Law Society blunder/comment where you falsely accused me of lying though.

Move on Sock puppet.

...or continue to show the world the harassment that i have had to put up with for the last 18 months.

Your call.

I am not fussed either way.

:-)

Anonymous said...

Is Andi Brotherston suing you now? That makes sense of your other comment about things that are still going on.
Or is it Matt Flannigan? Or both?

Jacqueline said...

Anon - 3:03 aka 125.236.205.85 who has been leaving nasty comments on my blog since at least the 21st of June in relation to Brown and Flannagan - What are you on? Please tell me so that i can write about the mental health risks associated with it.

PS Applications Dismissed ;-)

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