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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON MODERATES A DEBATE ON NOTHINGNESS

The Simple Truth About Happiness

The opposite of happiness isn’t sadness — it’s boredom. - Tim Ferriss


Over the past 4 years, I’ve read a countless number of articles on following your bliss, building passions, and being happy. Most articles touch on some common themes: finding passionate work, building positive and healthy relationships, being open-minded, and trying new things.

This is, as you know, is all great advice.
But over time, even though I started to explore and define my own life with these themes in mind, something felt off.

There would be days where I would be insanely happy and days where I felt immensely depressed. During the happy days I’d have no problem meeting people, exploring the city, feeling optimistic, and loving the world. My positive energy radiated from my personality and I attracted everything I wanted in my life.

But the down days were much, much worse. I’d sit in my bed, watch TV, and go back to sleep with continual thoughts of defeat in my head. I’d eventually drag myself out of bed to go hang out with some friends, but my mind would be somewhere else. Life seemed dull, gray, and flat out boring. I had a hard time talking to people, my anxiety skyrocketed, and my confidence dropped to an all time low.

On the surface, there didn’t seem to be any correlation. We all have good and bad days. It’s just normal, right? So I didn’t think about it for a while and just played with the cards that life handed me every day.

But after a couple of months of accepting my bad days as normality, I stumbled across the reason for exactly why the worst days occurred and why my happiest days were so awesome.

If I woke up feeling like crap, instead of allowing myself to have a bad day, I remembered this happiness principle and designed my day to make sure that it would be a good one.

Even better, when I applied this principle to the days where I was already in a good mood, I found that my level of happiness increased even further.
It makes perfect sense, but over the years I hadn’t even once seen this advice in an article on happiness, so I want to share it with you.

The Principle

A mentor told me a couple years ago a core principle that he lives by:

“The more you create, the more you deserve to consume.“

This is a powerful piece of advice, and once I started living by it, I began to see that my happiest days were directly correlated to the amount of things that I created compared to the things that I consumed.

And it makes total sense.

How many of us go throughout our day consuming more than we are creating?

How many of us sit on message boards all day lurking around without providing any value to society?

I recently read an article that stated that 90 percent of people are “lurkers” on the internet and do not participate whatsoever.

90 PERCENT!

The majority of people consume and consume, and don’t put in any of the work to create – it’s not surprising that many people aren’t that happy.

The more effort you are putting in the work and creating things that you love, the happier you will be.

If you aren’t creating anything and decide to watch TV or just read a bunch of books or discussion posts without applying information to your life, then you’re probably going to feel like crap in the long run.

Now I want to ask you — how much do you create compared to how much you consume?

Finding Your Creation-to-Consumption Ratio

This exercise will help you become aware of how much you create compared to how much you consume and will realize how that affects your emotional state.

At the end of the exercise, you will know how to design your days to make sure that your days will end with happiness rather then sadness.

1) For the next 5 days, I want you to create as much as you possibly can.

Some ideas: Make a post on the message boards giving your perspectives and lessons learned on a recent event.
Write your significant other a hand-written note telling them how awesome they are. Host a dinner party.
Go out and meet someone new.
Do something you’re scared of

2) At the end of each day, write down what you created that day

If you are having trouble, think about how you added value in the world today. It doesn’t have to be physical – even giving a compliment to someone is considered creating here.

3) Write down everything that you consumed

Examples:

Watched an hour of TV
Read a chapter in a book, write that down.
Bought a product or service (ex. a haircut or…a Snuggie )

4) Write down how you feel

5) After 5 days of doing this, go back and look at the trends

Look at the ratio of how much you created compared to how much you consumed and see how it affected your emotional state. Is there a correlation?

I hypothesize that you’ll start to see that the more you create, the happier you are. You’ll see the difference in your happiness level between when you create 50% of the time and when you create 90% of the time.

You’ll start to see that your happiness level drops if you consume for the most of the day, and that if you don’t create at all, life seems meaningless.

Of course there are days where we all want to sit on the couch, smoke a joint, and watch TV all day with your friends – there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you continue to do this in the long run without a significant amount of creation, you probably won’t be as happy as you know you can be.

Conclusion

The more you create, the more you deserve to consume.

This principle changed the way I go about my day, and it has helped me realize that adding value to the world every day results in happiness way beyond superficial pleasures.

By simply creating more and consuming less, my bad days are less frequent and my happy days are filled with passion, joy, and overwhelming positivity.

So what do you say? Take notice of your creation-to-consumption ratio and see if you see the same correlation.

You might be pleasantly surprised.

Source: http://www.highexistence.com/the-simple-truth-about-happiness/

22 Life Changing quotes

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” – Susan Gale

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” - Tony Robbins

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope” - Hal Lindsey

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious dont live at all.” – Ashley L

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” - Unknown

“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.” - Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Chinese Proverb

“You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.” – Robin Sharma

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” - Sarah Dessen

“Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” – Unknown

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” - Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee

“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ― Drew Barrymore

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

The Greatest Speech Ever Made

10 Reasons Why You Might Be Failing (& How to Change That)

1) Lack of Well Defined Purpose in Life 

It is much more difficult to stumble upon success than there is of focusing your intent on achieving a specific goal and striving towards its realization. Find out what you want out of life, and go for it.

2) Lack of Ambition to Aim Above Mediocrity 

Success requires hard work, motivation, and persistence. If one is content with being one of the crowd, one will not reach high positions in life because he lacks the internal desire.

3) Lack of Self-Discipline 

Discipline can only be acquired through self-control. It is not something that is received over night. It takes much power to control your negative qualities such as over indulgence in many different procrastination-inducing activities.

4) Procrastination

No matter what you read about the law of attraction. Only thinking about something will not make it happen. If you keep putting something off, it will never be done. Get started on what you need to do, don’t wait for the ‘right time’.

5) Lack of Persistence 

At this time of existence, our generation is overrun with a high amount of self-indulgence as well as instant-gratification expectations. Because of this we are automatically searching for ways to feed our laziness while expecting everything to be done for us. Due to this when people find the going getting tough, they duck out too early instead of pushing through. This is one of the biggest causes of failure.

6) Negative Personality 

 Those with negative personalities set from the get-go will not get very far in life. Through pessimism one will find themselves unconsciously taking on other qualities that lead to failure. 

7) Fear of Criticism or Rejection 

Those who would rather not try than fail will inevitably experience failure. Life is for experiencing. There fine line between simply going through the motions of life and actually living it. No one is perfect; no one gets it right the first time. Ask yourself, is your desire for something stronger than your fear of failing at it or the other way around?

8) Lack of Well Defined Power of Decision 

 It has been proven that people who succeed reach decisions promptly and change them slowly. Those who fail to make decisions or make them slowly have a better chance at failure in the given situation. There is little difference between indecision and procrastination.

9) Lack of Concentration 

If your mind is spread all over the place, the amount of concentration on any given thing wears thin. Keep your concentration on your main chief aim, do not move it elsewhere unless need be.

10) Lack of Enthusiasm 

If you aren’t enthusiastic about whatever it is you are trying to accomplish, you can’t expect others around you to be convinced of your success let alone yourself. Develop a deep passion for your efforts. Now that you’ve read this don’t move on to the next article or site, stop for a minute. Take a self-inventory for a second. Are you falling victim to any of these causes of failure?

10 Life Secrets and Tips

1.  Memorize something everyday.

Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.2. Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around. Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.3. Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Stop and observe all of the little things as completely unique events. Try new things. Get out of your comfort zone and try to experience as many different environments and sensations as possible. This world has so much to offer, so why not take advantage of it?4. Remember people’s namesso that they feel appreciated and for your own future benefit when you want something from that person. To do this, say their name back to them when they introduce themselves. Then repeat the name in your head a number of times until you are sure you have it. Continue to use their name in conversation as much as possible to remove any chance of forgetting it. If you’re still having trouble, make up a rhyme about their name: “Dan the Man” or “Natalie flatters me.”5. Get fit!It’s ridiculous to think that we have one body, one sole means of functioning, and people are too lazy to take care of themselves. Fit bodies lead to better health, confidence and more success with romantic endeavors. I’d say those are 3 very good reasons to get in shape.6. Learn to focus only on the present.The past is unchangeable so it is futile to reflect on it unless you are making sure you do not repeat past mistakes. The future is but a result of your actions today. So learn from the past to do better in the present so that you can succeed in the future.7. Even more specifically, live in THIS moment.Even 10 minutes ago is the past. If you live purely in this moment you will always be happy because there is nothing wrong in this split-second.8. Smile more often.Whenever you get a grin on your face, your brain is releasing serotonin, the happy hormone. Smiling is the natural way to force yourself to be happy. Many people even smile for five minutes straight in the morning to get themselves in a great mood for the day. It is a very powerful tool that is utilized less and less as we grow older and need happiness more than ever. Just remember that while happiness leads to smiles, smiles also lead to happiness.9. Drink water.Hydration is tremendously important for overall health. Soda has absolutely ZERO nutritional content; it’s like pouring a punch of sugar and syrup into your cup. Instead, fill it with life-replenishing water. It may taste plain at first if you’re coming off of a heavy soda-drinking streak, but you’ll soon find yourself addicted to it. 10 glasses per day is optimal, how many have you been getting lately?10. Don’t take life so seriously!Learn to laugh at the little things and this whole “existence” thing will be a whole lot easier. Be amused by your mistakes and failures and be thankful that you learned your lesson and won’t mess up like that again. And most importantly do things that you enjoy! Life is not strictly business, it can be mixed with pleasure.