How happy are you? Do your personal effectiveness skills create sustainable happiness for you, helping you to flourish and live your best life? Positive emotions (1) of joy, contentment, curiosity, vitality, and pride all add to the stream of intrinsic motivation. When we motivate ourselves to experience bouts of positive emotions, we fuel our sense of optimism and hope for living each day with renewed sense of purpose. When you create happiness with a variety (2) of habits that align with what you value, personal effectiveness becomes more authentic. Do you have positive, encouraging, personally effective, emotional support (3) from your friends and family? Being able to confide in your friends and family can significantly reduce stress within your mind and body.  How much committed effort (4) do you intentionally put forth and practice, so you can create a new, challenging yet enjoyable experiences? Is your self-commitment fleeting? Then, so will your happiness be…fleeting. When you are determined to establish healthy habits (5) through which you can savor, enjoy and ultimately be grateful for life, you can begin to create personally effective strategies that drive sustainable happiness each day of your life. What habits are you cultivating that will matter most for sustaining happiness in five years?

Do you want to empower yourself and make changes to start living your best? Thinking positive thoughts manifests the things and events in your life. Did you know that the physical reality you are and live is a mirror of your thought patterns? The simplicity of the previous statement is magnificent. Change your thought patterns, and yes you can change your life.

(1) Identify the rewards you desire that you want delivered from your life.

(2) State a feeling that each reward must bring you. This is what you want to achieve.

(3) Re-read your lists. Do you notice any common goals that your rewards and desires are aimed at? Here is a quick example: I want a healthy body that is physically fit and has a normal body mass index for someone my age. If I attach a feeling to each of these things.....I know how fabulous it feels being fit, healthy and trim. I feel confident, happy, enthusiastic, energetic, beautiful, etc. etc.

(4) Tell yourself when you want these things to begin to happen. Use the power of your voice to confirm and reconfirm these ideas, whether it is in your head (thoughts) or out loud (words).  This needs to happen each day...when is a good time for you to start? Will you be able to use this process when you allow negative thoughts to enter your mind? What do you allow to counteract YOUR positive thoughts? Send me your successes, challenges or questions to Jamie@personaleffectivenesslifecoach.com.