Successful Mindset

The 1st speaker for this National Achiever Congress 2007 is Andrew Matthews. He is the Author of Being Happy, Follow Your Heart and also an International Speaker on attitude. He’s a very humorous person and an awesome speaker who talk all about ‘Happiness’. I had a lot of fun admiring his cartoon drawing during his presentation. His sharing really gave me enlightenment and I found the peace in heart when I was listening to him.

Happiness Now

Do you want to be happy? A lot of people feel that rich people are happier but they forgot that happiness is a choice?

“They’re not happy. They just think they’re happy.”

Happiness is a daily decision, you can be happy anywhere, regardless of who you are and in any environment and circumstances. And happiness is attitudinal behavior and you can change it instantly. For example, you were arguing with your brothers or sister and raise your voice in the argument, when the phone rings, you pick it up and know that it’s your girlfriend or boy friend, you immediately speak with a softer voice, you have change your attitude instantly. You need to make a decision and chose to be happy. Happiness will never come if you just wait until it comes or expecting someone to give you your happiness. No one will give you happiness, you have to make it by yourself.

Life is a series of pitfall.

Life is cycle and a series of pitfalls, you overcame one problem and the next is inline for you; and overcoming problem make us happier. Ask yourself, what can I learn from this. Problem is a never ending life cycle, you CAN’T avoid it, in fact, problem is not always necessarily bad. You need to face it with confidence and positive thinking, in fact when you face and solve an unexpected problem, you will get a better self image about yourself, you will be more prepared if in the future you encounter the same problem again, and the best part is you will feel happy that you are able to solve it.
Have a productive approach; in life, there are things that you cannot change now and there are things that you can change. Work on the things you can change now and accept what you cannot change, put up a smiling face as you cannot have an angry thought with a smiling face. Try it! Smile will help you feel more happy. When you feel happy and positive, you will attract people around you (law of attraction)

Excuses and Results

In Life you can have two choices, make excuses or produce results. Too many people live their life with too many excuses and did not produce any result. Successful people treat problems as their friends, they see things differently, every problem prompts them to action and every action made them stronger and leads them nearer to success.

To produce results, you need to set goal> Many people do not want to set goal, as they adopt this attitude, “No Goal, No Disappointment.” Goal Setting is to take challenges, it is what you become in the process and not what you get that is important. And to set Goal, you have to set BIG GOAL! Never mind that you do not have the resources now, it is like eating an ELEPHANT! How do you eat an elephant, ONE BITE AT A TIME!

Joy of Life!

In life, you do not need to be a genius to be successful. You just need a plan! Life is a participating sport! Not a spectator sport. You feel happier in participating. Focus on what you must do and give it your 100% effort if it is not going your way. Keep doing what’s works and refine your skill as you go along, and the Joy of Life is in Participating.

Remember: Put the best whatever you have to whatever you’re doing. When you do the best in everything, you will get more skill and you will feel happier when you achieve it.

“Relationship is all about supporting each other, not expecting your parter to give you happiness”

I would like to recommend you to take a look on his book about happiness. Most of his book are funny, simple and easy to read with a lot of funny cartoon. You will have fun reading it. Click here to go to his site.

This is the song that he used in this session – “Don’t worry, Be Happy”. Enjoy the music… Happiness has seemed so simple to me now. Thank you Andrew!!