The 30-Points Creed of a Passionate Mind

1.    If anything goes wrong, fix it!

2.    When given a choice … take both!

3.    Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.

4.    Start at the top, then work your way up.

5.    Do it by the book … but be the author!

6.    When forced to compromise, ask for more.

7.    If it’s worth doing, it’s got to be done right now.

8.    If you can’t win, change the rules.

9.    If you can’t change the rules, then ignore them.

10. Perfection is not optional.

11. When faced without a challenge, make one.

12. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.

13. Don’t walk when you can run.

14. Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, tolerance, and a bulldozer.

15. When in doubt THINK!

16. Patience is a virtue, but persistence is a blessing.

17. The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

18. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

19. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!

20. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite.

21. You get what you incentivize.

22. If you think it is impossible, then it is …. for you.

23. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.

24. Any breakthrough is preceded by a crazy idea.

25. If it were easy, it would have been done already.

26. Without a target, you will miss it every time.

27. Bullshit walks, hardware talks.

28. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

29. The world’s most precious resource is the passionate and committed mind.

30. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

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How to be Happy when Life seems to be Crappy

Let's discuss the 7 ways to be happy:

1. Three Walks

Research has proven that people who are physically more active are also happier in their day to day life. Exercise provides people with a greater feeling of enthusiasm.  It doesn't take much: half an hour of brisk walking three times a week improves happiness.

2. The 20-Minute Replay

Studies have found that re-playing positive experiences improves people's lives and happiness.  Writing for twenty minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Why? Because you actually re-live the experience as you are writing it and then re-live it every time you read it.  It helps us remember things we like about ourselves, people and our lives.

3. Random Acts of Kindness

Psychology Studies have proven that people who are kind to other people tend to be happier than people who are usually not. It's been found that kindness produces the most reliable well-being in any person who practices kindness.  Carrying out random acts of kindness every week will dramatically improve your happiness.

4.  A Complete Unplug

The richest, happiest and most productive lives are characterized by the ability to fully engage in the challenge at hand, but also to disengage and seek renewal.  Downtime after work helps people recharge. Turn off your phone after dinner, try to avoid as much as possible thinking about work issues while relaxing at home, don't use the Internet while on vacations, etc.

5.  Hit flow

When you get absorbed in what you are doing you are being challenged and demonstrating your skill - you are in your flow. People who find challenge and satisfaction of accomplishment tend to be happier.

6.  2-Minute Meditations

Brain scans (as part of Hospital Research), have shown that people who meditate show increase brain activity associated with compassion and self-awareness while stress levels shrink. Studies report that meditation can "permanently rewire" your brain to raise levels of happiness.

7.  Five Gratitudes

Make it a habit to write down five things you are grateful for from the past week.  As Charles Dickens wrote:  "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not your past misfortunes, of which all men have some" 

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Happiness… It’s all about attitude.

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"   
Shakespeare

Question is:  why can't we think ourselves into a good mood whenever we want?

We all know it's no easy; people freak out, sweat and think something might go wrong - it's people's nature. We all have negative self-talk. There is no such thing as an eternal optimist.

Why do our brains focus on negative things, how can we learn to control it and make a conscious effort to be happy?

Our species have existed on this planet over two hundred thousand years, during most of that existence; life was mostly short, vulnerable to predators, brutal and highly competitive. Survival was key and being alert instead of complacent is what made people survive. 

The instinctive need for what we don't have yet creates in us a persistent state of dissatisfaction.  Unhappiness is nature's way of keeping people on their toes.

It begs the question: is that fear still programmed into our heads today?     

Yes

As Steve Jobs once put it "Only the paranoid survive"

Our brains still follow this paranoid model every day, and it's a recipe for unhappiness. We scan the world for problems because that led to our survival.

In today's world survival for food and safety does not apply as in the past, however rather than find good results and make them better, our brains still look for a problem and find a problem and that's usually all we see: problems.

So what do we do about it?

As Aristotle said:  “Happiness depends upon us"

In many cases, there is one main thing we can control in our life about ourselves and that is attitude.   

It's about choosing one's attitude in any given set of circumstances our own way.

Life is 10% what happens and 90% how we react to it.

90% of our happiness isn't based on what's happening but based on how we see things - our intentional thinking and activities.  Happiness is about seeing the half glass full rather than empty.

in our next blog, we will discuss the 7 ways to be happy right now.

One of the core values we have as a company is to inspire and empower people in all aspects of their lives. Additionally, if you want to read about our Custom Software Solutions and Consulting Services, please visit www.isucorp.ca