ULTIMATE LIFE GOAL

     What is the ultimate goal in your life?

     You might say, “I want to be healthy every day,” or “I want to be financially independent,” or “I want a loving wife and children.”

     All these life goals are admirable, but are they really your ultimate goal in life? Whether your life goals involve health, money, or love, they all provide different means to one desired end, which is the ultimate goal in life. Let’s look deeper.

      Assume for a moment you want to be financially independent. Imagine being handed a suitcase containing ten million dollars. The physical money is worthless. The actual printed paper has no value. It’s what the money buys you that’s worthwhile and valuable.

    For example, you might use the money to buy a home or car, food or clothes, a business or education, a vacation or concert or sports event, or even a nice gift for someone. It’s what the money buys you that’s worthwhile, valuable, and really matters to you. It's how those money purchases make you feel that’s really your ultimate life goal.

     Money, love, and health all provide different excellent means to one desired end which is HAPPINESS, which is our ultimate goal in life.

     Many prominent individuals throughout history believe that happiness is the ultimate goal of our lives on earth. Here are just a few examples:

     Ancient Greece philosopher Aristotle said, "Happiness is the highest good. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. And of this nature happiness is mostly thought to be, for this we choose always for its own sake, and never with a view to anything further: whereas honor, pleasure, intellect, in fact every excellence we choose for their own sakes, it is true, but we choose them also with a view to happiness, conceiving that through their instrumentality we shall be happy: but no man chooses happiness with a view to them, nor in fact with a view to any other thing whatsoever. Happiness turns out to be an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."

    Tibet spiritual leader Dalai Lama said, "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

England classical fictional author Victor Hugo said, "Happiness is the noblest thing in the world."

  India lawyer and political activist Mahatma Gandhi said, "Happiness is the highest form of health."

   Egland playwriter William Shakespeare said, "The happier man is, the more he is inclined to think that his happiness is the highest good."

   French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, Blaise Pascal said, "All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end."

  German and French theologian, humanitarian, and author Albert Schweitzer said, “Happiness is the key to life.”    

HAPPINESS GENE HORMONES

  You can trigger happiness gene hormones inside your brain and body to create and maintain a happy lifestyle. With your brain, you control your thoughts. With your thoughts, you control your decisions. With your decisions, you control your actions. With your actions, you control your happiness and life destiny.

    You can consciously trigger happiness gene hormones inside your brain and body with a happiness mindset. Where your mind goes, your happiness hormones flow.

   Many prominent individuals have spoken about the tremendous power of your brain’s mindset to control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and lifestyle:

  Siddhartha Gautama Buddha said, “All that we are is a result of what we have thought.”

  The Holy Bible preached, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

 Mahatma Gandhi announced, “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”

 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

   John Milton exclaimed, “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.”

    William Shakespeare wrote, “There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

  Evolution biologist Charles Darwin professed, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”

 American transcendental essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson taught, “We become what we think about all day long.”

    America’s prized novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed, “The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.”

     Philosopher William James said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.”

    Napoleon Hill, the author of “Think and Grow Rich,” announced, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

 Norman Vincent Peal commented, “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

     World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali remarked, “What you are thinking about, you are becoming.”

 Radio announcer Earl Nightingale explained, “You are the sum of what you think about. What you think about today and tomorrow and next month and year will mold your life and become your future.”

 American motivational speaker Harvey said, “No thought lives in your head rent free. Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.”

     Many prominent individuals have also spoken about the power of your brain’s mindset to create and maintain a happy lifestyle:

    Ancient Greece philosopher Aristotle said, “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

 Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

     U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said, “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

  American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

      Deepak Chopra said, “"Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances."

  India lawyer and political activist Mahatma Gandhi said, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

     Tibet spiritual leader Dalai Lama said, “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

     American entrepreneur Fawn Weaver said, “Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.”

    American motivational speaker Harvey Eker said, “Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.”

   American movie director, actor, and comedian Groucho Marx said, “Each morning when I open my eyes, I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

     Remember these additional important truths that will empower your positive mindset and happiness lifestyle:

    “Your life is about the journey, not the destination.”

    “View your life as it can be, not as it is.”

    “With one snap of your fingers, you can change your life forever.”

   “Achieving things in life is not about what you get, it’s about who you become.”

    “Your life rewards are equal to your life contributions.”

   “What you can see, and believe, you can achieve.”

     “What you seek is seeking you.”

     “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

  “Experience the power of creating, instead of waiting. Go make your masterpiece.”

   “Every life experience has something valuable and meaningful to teach us. If you squeeze all the juice out of every experience, you’ll be living in a zone of tremendous opportunity.”

   “Personal growth is what happens when you step beyond your comfort zone to discover new experiences and opportunities.”

   “You are greater than anything that happens to you.”

   “It’s not what happens to you that controls your life, it’s how you respond to what happens that controls your life.”

   “It ’s how you set the sails on a sailboat, not the direction of the wind, that determines which direction you will travel.”

     “Learn how to be grateful and happy with what you have, while you pursue what you want.”

   “When you know exactly what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”    

     “If you want success, you must take yourself there.”

     “Success in life is not doing ordinary things, but doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

     “Proceed forward as if any limits to your abilities do not exist.”

     “It’s just as easy to thing big, as to think small, so why not always think big?”

     “Why aim for the ceiling and hit it, when you can aim for the stars and hit the moon.”

       “Live your life, not your age.” 

     “Don’t wish life were easier, wish you were stronger.”

    “Convert you doubt, worry, and fear into excitement.”    

     “Never argue with loved ones. Instead, change their mood, not their mind, for it’s better to be in love than be right.”

  “Holding onto your anger and resentment for someone is like drinking poison and believing you will harm the other person.”

     “Seeking revenge upon someone is like picking up a hot coal and throwing it at them. Both people get burned.”

     “Be open to everything and attached to nothing.”

     In conclusion, you can control your brain, thoughts, and mindset to trigger your happiness gene hormones, instead of allowing life to happen to you. Focus upon what you want, instead of what you don’t want. Think of what makes you happy instead of thinking of what makes you unhappy. Envision what your life will look like when you  are living a happy lifestyle. View yourself today as if you already achieved a happy lifestyle. Stay committed to your happiness instead of only wanting happiness.