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Jaco de Villiers's Articles in Happiness

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  • Do you have permission to be successful?
    Do you have the permission to be successful?

    We do not believe that we have permission to be successful. If someone asks you to define success, you don’t know the answer to it, because you are too scared of being wrong.

    What makes this tragic is that you have all the permission in the world to be successful. Somehow you came to believe that only certain people have it
  • Do you shift blame to others?
    You can be a victim, feel hopeless, and blame everything on your circumstances.

    Blaming others for your circumstances will not change it.
  • Giving meaning to experiences
    An experience is nothing more than an experience. By giving an experience meaning, you give it a frame. A frame will change the picture. Put a flowery frame around your picture. You have the power to change how you see experiences.
  • Saying something that matters
    Automatic vigilance is defined as the strong tendency to pay attention to undesirable or negative information. Apparently we are more inclined to notice the negative than positive. If I describe a friend of mine to you, by naming 20 favourable traits, and one negative one, you are bound to remember the negative one.
  • The butterfly effect
    The theory states that the small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamic system produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. Accordingly the flap of a butterfly’s wings can change the weather patterns forever. For the sake of argument, apply the butterfly effect to our lives. Our lives are dynamic systems. The challenge lays in a very simple and small action, with large variations in the long run.
  • The roadmap to happiness
    You can create your own map of success. Happiness comes from within. People can not make you happy; things can not make you happy. It is in your choice you make. How many books have you read, professing the secret to success? I admit, I have read quite a number. Guess what? Stop trying to live a life without happiness.
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