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7 Simple Ways to Be Happy ©
18 April 2012, 6:39 am
There are many things that can create happiness, but ultimately happiness is an inside job. It is you choosing to be happy. You can’t put the weight of your happiness on another person or wait for the weather to be just right. Ultimately, it is you making a choice in the midst of whatever is going on in life to give yourself the gift of happiness by simply making choices that create happiness for you. You may have more to add to this list, but here are some simple ways to speed up your happiness metabolism and start living and feeling happy now.
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The Story Behind Sam Glenn's A Kick in the Attitude:
I love a good story, and am passionate about sharing mine to encourage and energize others. My story is about overcoming and becoming. For the past 14 years, I have worked with hundreds of organizations who value what a positive attitude put to positive action can achieve. Whether the focus be on Training and Development, Peak Performance, Employee Motivation, Staff Development, Leadership Training, Fundraising or simply Kicking off an event with the purpose to create a positive tone, it all boils down to attitude. How do you measure the investment of attitude performance speeches or training? The answer is simple. What kind of people do you want working for you and with you? Negative or positive? If you can measure that, then you understand the value of attitude. When the right attitude is put into action, you achieve results.
The concept of our attitude may seem small by nature, yet it is a mighty element within us and every organization that can determine success or failure, happiness or depression, achievement or apathy, teamwork or chaos. I love working with organizations and leadership who understand the true "value" of recharging attitudes in the workplace. A simple analogy may be, you can have the most expensive car on the block, but if that battery in the car doesn't have a positive charge, it's not going anywhere. It will not operate the way it should. For the most part, attitude is put on the bottom of the shelf when it comes to Training and Development, Employee Motivation, Staff Development, Leadership Training, etc... However, organizations that get better do so because the people in the organizations get better and the starting point for that is attitude.
Attitudes get depleted with changes, stresses, demands, cutbacks, regulations, new policies, competition, etc...and if we are not recharging our attitude on a regular basis, we end up living and working on fumes. And the result is we get our average at best.
What I have learned is that it's easy to be positive when life is good, but the challenge is to stay upbeat when life is rocky. This concept applies to everyone who breathes. Consider the words of Norman Vincent Peale: "The only people without challenges are in a cemetery."
The subject of attitude has become my passion ever since I knocked Zig Ziglar over at a buffet. I didn't know who he was, but his advice to me served me well: "If you don't like the output in your life, then you need to change the input." I was struggling to survive and had an attitude that made people want to run the other way, so I listened.
When I made a choice to change my attitude, I began to read quote books and listen to inspirational speakers to reshape my outlook. However, I had been sleeping on the floor for close to two years. I needed more. While my attitude was improving, I needed to put it into action through developing a purpose.
I began to volunteer at a youth program, and found purpose in encouraging others. Being shy by nature meant that getting up to speak was a tough obstacle (still is some days!). I persevered, however, and it paid off. Today, I speak for a living and get to help a lot of people.
I want others to hear my story and know that whatever they are going through, they can make it. It's never too late to start over, pursue a dream, turn things around, and become the best version of yourself.
A Kick in the Attitude is really a story of my journey, filled with emotion and stories. You are gonna feel like you are in a time machine, 'cause I mentally take you to the moment when I was struggling, and show you how I used my attitude to change circumstances. This book is energizing. Often, we get tired, frustrated, burned out and feel a sense of hopelessness. A Kick in the Attitude is a jolt to wake you up, and get you refocused and headed in a better direction. Even if you are a positive person, it still juices you in the right way. It's refreshing.
Attitude is such a personal subject to most, but my hope is that people feel encouraged by my story. Attitude is a choice, and some days the hardest choice we can make. I often ask people, how valuable is your attitude to you? If you were to buy your attitude, how much would you pay? This gets people thinking about the value of something they already own. I love taking a garage-sale attitude and transforming it to something priceless. That's makes it all worth it for me. And it's something you can do.
Today, I no longer sleep on the floor, unless I fall off the bed. But, I am more alive, happier, healthier and successful in the sense that I am doing what I love. Is this possible for anyone? I believe it is.
The simple key is knowing that your success, your organization's success, starts with attitude. My goal when working with any organization for the purpose of giving a keynote speech or training and development is to first recharge attitudes for positive action.
