Attitude is Everything!

“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.”

- J. Donald Walters

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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.

- Victor Frankl

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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

– Albert Einstein

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“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight,
it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

- Billy Graham

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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort!”

Love is about being open!

Love is about open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

– Leo Buscaglia

Being wide open, at all times, ain’t easy, and frankly it ain’t all that smart, either. Learn how to be open, when the time is right, or even by default, but also know how to close up, and protect yourself, when needed, as well.

I am happy.

I have a life. I make a life. every day.

I have a great job, the best I’ve ever had. I work part-time, telecommuting from home, it pays well, is challenging, important and resume-enhancing.

I run 4 businesses:
EucProducts
ND – my fave!
Computer Consulting
building 2GH

I have a 700+ post blog, and building another.
I have a 100+ member support site, and building another.

I have 13.8 acres of nearly ocean-front property in a small town in the woods of northern California. I am nearing completion on a 1,600 sq. ft. garage/workshop/classroom/Paula’s office/craft area, that Paula and I built, from scratch, with our own barehands (and a little help from our son-in-law, and a few others).

I hang out with my wife, and daughter, and daughter’s family, and especially my grandkids. I have gobs of friends.

I play racquetball like a maniac 2-3x/week (B-/C+ level).

I’m hardly ever sick and have only a very few lasting injuries/pains.

I laugh more than anyone I know. I cry more than almost anyone I know. I am angry sometimes, and proud of it.

I have cleaned out the skeletons of my painful past (mostly). I have learned how to function immensely in the present. I have hope for the future.

I like myself. I like my life. and I love what I’ve become/created.

I am happy.

- Matt

What is Happiness?

Happiness is an Attitude
Happiness is a Lifestyle Choice.
Happiness is a Way of Being.
Happiness is a Skill.
Happiness is an Art.

Happiness is Classy.
Happiness has Style, and Grace, and Beauty.
Happiness is Fun, and Silly, and Skippy, and having a Blast, pretty often.

Happiness is about Allowing and Releasing Negative Feelings, to get back to the Positive ones.

Happiness is about Accepting and Understanding what’s going on inside of you, and others (even when it’s scary or uncomfortable).

Happiness is about Giving a damn.
Happiness is about Caring.
Happiness is about Love.

Happiness is life, lived to the fullest.

We Must Teach People How to Be with Us

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

– Wayne Dyer, American Psychotherapist/Author/Lecturer

If you think badly of yourself, others will instinctively treat you badly, too. But, if you value yourself, your opinions, your heart and your mind, others will USUALLY treat you the same way.

Emotions are the next frontier!

“By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.”

- Joseph Collins

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“Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions…. It’s time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.”

- Doc Childre