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Make up your mind to be happy

Cliff Baird, PhD, the developer of The RealSTAR Online Recruiting System, has the following advice on how to make your life happy - starting now.

Stop Waiting for Your Happiness

Decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy about life.
We all have a dark side and a bright side. Do you know which one always comes out on top? It is the one that we feed! The one that we nourish survives. This is just another example of the echo principle: we are always moving in the direction of our thoughts.

During this period of reorganizing, rebuilding and redirecting your real estate career, you need to create peace of mind about where you are headed. You need to focus on the truth about the future and how to get there. Fear is not your native soil. The only way we can attempt to predict the future is to see it in the light of history. For those of us who have endured the past storms of real estate, we can say with certainty that it will pass quickly. There are those among us who succeeded when interest rates were higher than 20%. We survived and thrived-and so can you. It’s your choice!

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.

Check Yourself for Positive Thinking

-Surround yourself with those who think positive. You may not think others have that much power over your train of thought, but they do.
-Actively try to see the upside to all things. Eventually, it will become second nature, but until such time you have to force yourself. Every time something negative happens, actively force yourself to find something positive in the situation.
-Make the best of what you’ve got. If you’re depressed over not making enough money, first look and see if you’re making the best of what you have already.
-Speak positively to others; it’ll rub off on you. This is an example of “fake it until you make it.” Little by little, you’ll notice yourself thinking on the positive side naturally, more and more often.
-Realize it’s never too late. If you’re breathing, it’s not too late to make anything right. Where there is life, there is hope.