A quick search on the internet reveals some confusion about what the secret of happiness actually is…
- Keep changing something if you’re not happy, until you are (what exactly to change is missing information).
- Make others believe they are the cause of it (!?)
- Count your blessings while others are adding to their troubles.
- Admire without desiring (!?)
- Not to chase it. It’s like a butterfly so you must pay attention to other things and it will land on your shoulder (a smidgen of truth, but largely useless information).
These web results leave me dumbfounded! These aren’t the way to happiness, they’ll just confuse someone in genuine need of advice that works…
Given that the only thing we really want is happiness, this muddle of confusion won’t do…
Where to look for the secret to happiness?
Well… you could ask a happy person, or you could ask a thousand happy people, and quiz them all about it. Unfortunately they won’t know.
They will probably get you closer than the above “wisdom” because what will happen is they will tend to describe what it is LIKE to be happy… “I feel blessed, spontaneous, energetic, free, loving and I love to help people.” So they might deduce that the secret is “gratitude, spontaneity, energy, freedom, loving and giving.”
These are certainly some of the qualities of happiness but they are not the secret. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Happy people don’t get happy by doing these things. They ARE happy FIRST, and so they do these things naturally.
So how can we find it?
The answer is to ask someone who has CREATED happiness from misery — someone who’s been through hell. They will know! Ask someone who has done all the seeking, researching and experimenting; someone who’s already taken the journey you want to take. I AM that person and after over 20 years of research and experimentation, the secret of happiness is now crystal clear to me.
There’s only ONE master key
There’s only ONE underlying root cause, just one, and I’ve explained it in the very first chapter of Happy Guide. This ONE cause holds, contains and makes effective, all the other causes…
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Scroll down to the Contents and click on “DISCOVER THE HAPPINESS SECRET” which will take you right to the beginning of the chapter.
Happy reading!
“Thanks for putting The Happiness Secret together. You have put it in a nutshell in a few short pages. Excellent!”
— Dr. Ed Dodge, USA
“Wow! What an incredible journey you have been on! Aren’t we all blessed that you decided to share your learnings with us and write your Happiness Secret. Thank you so much.”
— Rebecca, UK
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I am amazed that I have never thought this way before but you are correct in the fact that we are creatures of habit.
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Dearest Mike,
Wow! What an incredible journey you have been on! Aren’t we all blessed that you decided to share your learnings with us and write your Happiness Secret. Thank you so much.
Love and abundance
Bec
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Hi Mike !
Thanks for a great guide ! – Well said and well done ! I have really enjoyed it ! Its like a second Bible for me !
Warm regards…
Suliano
(Fiji)
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Hi! Mike & James
Great Work. I loved The Happiness Secret. I found it very interesting & helpful & I intend to start today by changing my BAD habits to GOOD habits. I look forward to lots more stuff from you guys I will pass this info onto my family I have tried so many diets & cant stick to one so I am going to do my best to follow your advice & I will keep you up to date on how I am going with it.
Its high time some-one put out info on this sort of thing I personally think companys feed us alot of Bull S…t on what is good for us & infact its killing us Its hard to believe whats good & whats bad.
Keep up the good work. I cant wait to read more Have A Nice Day
Cheers
Elizabeth Rose
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Well well well, time for my book :D
Firstly let me start with how I read your book Mike, when by myself I tend to read aloud slightly as it helps me realize what I am actually reading. On reading the “Habit” page, arriving at “Good habits make the conditions for happiness effortless and that’s the key” I found myself to be almost screaming it out aloud and my blood tingling with realization.
I was fortunate to have a very connected mother who tried her dearest to set myself and my siblings up for life, not with equipment, but knowledge, never enough money to go on school excursions or anything of the like, knowledge was my out. So that’s where I was heading. I still have 2 or 3 quotes from the wisdom of my family, that I will continue to pursue.
“The more money you have the more worries your likely to have.”
“If your going to do something for someone, it had better be what you say it will be.”
“Insults and backstabbing is very handy, as it points out who we don’t want to know.”
I had a hell of a start to life. Like your self said in your reply to the comments Mike, “TORTURE more like, relentless torture.” Sums it up all pretty damn well.
I had a break, though, and that was the start of the truth for me. Upon leaving a VERY destructive relationship, for almost 2 years, I obviously had a lot of bad habits and was feeling the effects of them, all around me, because from personal experience “Everything effects every other thing”. Once I got out of my most recent hell I had invited upon myself, I turned to the wonderful internet to find someone who would listen. I found someone in another state, something i had never even thought of prior. “Another state? Another country? Why bother, they are all the same.” Was my quoted saying before this time.
The listener I found was a new girlfriend, one who suggested I needed a change of scenery to get myself back on track, to which it took one thought “What have I got to lose?” and about 30 secs to reply, “Why not? It can not be worse than here!”
27 days later I had my plane ticket to go from Victoria, Australia, across the Bass Straight via plane, to Tasmania (I might add, the first time I left the state and the first time I crossed water AND the first time I got on a plane).
3 months later, she had broken down and I knew it wasn’t where I wanted to be. Of course her father saw my X’s depression as my wrong doing and physically removed me from the house. Upon climbing into his car he simply said, “You got 2 options mate! go to the airport and I’ll pay for your ticket back or I’ll drop you on the street!”
Not having anything but my physical belongings to lose I retorted, for fun and with a massive smile “I actually wouldn’t mind going into town and wasting the last of my money!” (The very little I had) Well, he was flabbergasted! I am now confident he thought I was completely insane and chose that opportunity to remove me from their lives.
With all of my physical belongings in 2 large boxes and 3 large suitcases, I was left on the side of the road, in the middle of town. But I would of died before I let anything get on top of me. I found temporary accommodation and 1 year later of crazy adventuring and amusing tales, I finally walked into stable accommodation, with my own lease.
At this point I will admit I am only 23 years of age. But through all of my experiences (Way too many to list) I have always favored the idea of focusing on happiness as my #1 Priority! Though I may have found many different ways for me to claim temporary happiness, it was only while being homeless, and having the state of mind that I was focusing on today, instead of next week, that I ever experienced any “Contented Happiness” what we all desire for. That happiness that makes ANYTHING possible, that happiness that reduces any EVEREST to a pebble.
MIKE KINNAIRD, You have stumbled on the key thing to make us ALL happy people again! The next problem is the individualized teaching, required for most, for changing bad habits into good habits.
I had this pattern before I read this book, my house is tidy and clean, because any spare chance I get, I clean it. Without thinking of it. THAT is the habit your talking about, THAT is what we all need. THAT habit forming attitude for the most important areas of our lives.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MIKE, I will be printing a good few hundred copies and I will be handing them out. I wont forget your name and will be eager for anything you might release in the years to come :D
All of the best wishes, TO Mike and the rest of my brothers and sisters of the human race!
Peace out :D
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