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Compliments of the Season to all my readers and well wishers.

With the onset of New Year many of you must have adopted a RESOLUTION. For some of you it must be out of habit - but for many because fellow colleagues and family keeps on asking What is Your New Year Resolution?

Is it really necessary to have a Resolution. How many of us actually achieve it ?

This thought of having a Resolution has led me to write this article considering for the past many years I have had no Resolution and yet achieved the path of success without any fuss.

If adopting Resolutions makes one Happy - I wonder achieving it must make you more than happy. How many of us achieve the goals? Does it really makes us happy. What happens to those who don't achieve their resolutions. What is Happiness ?

When was the last time you really felt Happy. Are you Happy?

Does having and owning branded materialistic things makes us happy? Does achieving our targets at work makes us happy? Does having a big house makes us happy? Does having many friends make us happy?

Well, conciously YES it does, but sub-conciously within you - You are still Not Happy - You still want more !....

Happiness is not a thing: - It is a state of mind and must be lived to be cherished and enjoyed. Only a strong Determination and NOT a Resolution to be happy will help you.

Thru this article I am going to provide you the answers to your - Quest for Happiness.

To beleive and follow will be your choice. However, let me tell you that I went thru very difficult times the past two years. Many of you may have still seen me smiling and never complain. Many of you will find it hard to beleive - but thats the truth.

I thank my well wishers and fellow friends and colleagues who stood by me in my hard times, but today I want to bring and share with you what made me stand tall inspite of all challenges thrown at me and how I came out HAPPY against all odds.

To begin with I want to thank my wife who stood by me and emotionally supported me with her mantra that 'Every bad phase in life has to end and a New phase has to come'. In the begining I was not convinced and assumed she was only trying to pacify me and give me moral support. Dwelling deep and taking the leaf out of her Mantra - I tried to be Happy under all circumstances. However, there was something amiss. Soon I realized that To be Happy I have to include others happiness.

Being happy byself only expands ones own happiness. Our inner soul brings the reflection of the ever-joyous spirit in happiness itself. This was reflected during my training sessions that however sad and down I was mentally I never let it reflect during my lectures and made a point to be as humourous and joyous so that no one could see my grief and pain. I was constantly looking for inner peace, YES I did achieve it - Took me time but Today I beleive and feel Happy.

Now I am sharing this with you and want you to Seek Happiness Daily, by continuously meditating within and you will definitly achieve everlasting happiness. The Secret is about being content with what we have and NOT by comparing what others have. here under are some finer thoughts that may/will help you achieve Happiness:

1. Practice to see good in every thing or circumstances - be positive and optimistic.
2. Be optimistic by continually seeking encouragement to achieve better than before.
3. Releive the state of mind that makes you feel and think miserable.
4. Keep saying I am the Best and I can Do It- the vibrations of this words will lead you to achieve the once impossible.
5. Life is a process of ongoing transformation and requires you to posess qualities of purpose, curiosity and courage. Lets understand that the mother earth is immovable and you can move it. So lets make the best of what we have and it will be better to move within ourselves.
6. Cut down your expectations and that will help you enjopy the little wins in your life.... being compassionate to ones self - its hard because we always blame ourselves but being compassionate will lead to self encouragement and assist in pursuing the path of positivity.
7. Slow down - don't try to win everytime. Slowing down should be a deliberate choice. "Drink Your Tea Slowly" - taste it. Live in the actual moment..

Being truly in the moment allow us to preserve our inner energy. It helps us focus in the one thing that we want to achieve. Just making a RESOLUTION is Not going to help. Being Happy will make you develop mental capacity that will help you cope with any diversity.

Following the above will help you not only being happy but being healthy too.

"A Healthy Body Leads to A Healthy Mind".

Positive thinking will attract positive energy and lead us to be more productive, clear in thinking and thoughts and ultimately Being Happy.

Lastly, Get Inspired..... Do What You Like To Do & Not What Others Do!

I found Happiness in reading and writing. In my bouts of anger I choose to write it is like a therapy to soothe my inner nerves and lay my mind to rest and in a state of solace. Writing allows me to turn my dissatisfaction, anger, unruly behavior of others and dissapointmentys into inspiring me and releving my stress turning negativity into positivity by helping me exprerss what I feel down deep and inside me.

Let me end by saying - ' The more You Give - God will Give You More than you ever Expected'

___________________________________________________________ about the writer: Percy is a self taught 'Art of Living' follower and a mentor and guide to those seeking to achieve happiness and well being. His claim to fame comes from the students he teaches and their beleif in his teachings. ___________________________________________________________