True Happiness?

What is true happiness? No really! What is it? Well, happiness is obviously a feeling. Therefore, to understand true happiness, you first have to understand what creates emotion, and it all starts with thought. For example, what you think about determines how you feel, how you feel determines how you act, and how you act determines how you feel, which again determines what you think, and so on. It's a perpetual cycle of thought-feeling-action.

Therefore, in order to achieve true happiness, you have to think in a certain way, to feel certain emotions, to motivate and inspire you to act in various ways. That will make you happy. But what a lot of people don't know is there are actually four minds, processed by one brain. And so, when people say they're in two minds about something, they're actually in four minds about it. And having four minds, means there are actually four ways to think, and they are Adventure, Talent, Passion, and Optimism.

Adventure

Adventure is living a more adventurous life, by trying new things, exploring your world, and doing all the things you've always wanted to do. To do that, you need to think about what you really want to do in life, what excites you the most, what’s the most fun for you, what challenges you, what rewards you, and so on. Those thoughts will make you feel excited, and it’s the feeling of great excitement, which actually motivates you to step out of your comfort zone, and do whatever you have to do to have more fun and live a more adventurous life. Doing so will make you feel even more excited about life, which makes you think more adventurous thoughts, which makes you feel more excited, which makes you take on bigger, more exciting adventures and challenges. It's a beautiful cycle.

Talent

Talent is being really good at doing something you enjoy doing. To do that, you need to think about how you can get better at doing it, new and better ways to do it, how to achieve your goals, and how successful you wish to be at doing it, and so on. Those thoughts will make you feel determined, enthusiastic, and willing; which will motivate you to learn new skills, practise your existing skills into talent, overcome failure, solve problems, and so on. That competent action will make you feel even more determined to improve, as well as feeling “good enough” - confident, accomplished, and successful. That will drive you to develop even more talent, achieve great things, and do things to the best of your ability.

Passion

Passion is being yourself, and expressing yourself, in your own unique way. That usually means doing what you really want to do, and in the way you really want to do it, because that's just who you are as a person - rather than doing what everybody else expects you to do, just to keep people happy, or get approval, or fit in, or avoid conflict. It's not being selfish — it's being true to self.

In other words, to be a truly passionate person requires you to think about yourself for a change - who you really are as a person, what you want, what makes you happy, how you want to achieve it, and how you wish to express that, so others can benefit and be inspired by your beautifully unique self.

It’s perfect self-expression, and such thoughts will make you feel unique, important, distinct, and sovereign. When you feel like that, you’ll be inspired to stand up for yourself, say “No!” to dream crushers, say “Yes!” to life, stay true to yourself, and embrace the conflict being yourself may create.

Optimism

Optimism is going beyond who you are and what you believe possible. Obviously, that's mostly about dreaming big, thinking positively, and being a more positive person. But it can also come from learning as much as you can about yourself, people, life — so you're more confident in what you do, and who you are. It can come from applying your knowledge in real life situations and circumstances, so you find your own unique truth to be optimistic about. It can come from questioning your old ways, then letting go of outdated limiting beliefs and identities that no longer serve you.

To do that, you need to think about what you think about — how pessimistic your thoughts are, what you believe and if it's actually true, how you speak about yourself the life you envisage, and so on. The more negativity you find, the more you know what to change, and the more positive you can be — which will make you feel certain, purposeful, positive and uplifted.

4 Pillars = Happiness

Satisfying all four pillars of the mind is the only way you will ever achieve true lasting happiness and balance in your life. The best way to do that is to live your dreams. In other words, do what really excites you (Adventure), to the best of your ability (Talent), in your own unique way (Passion), beyond your old limits (Optimism). You can do that in your lifestyle, hobbies, past-time, or even as a full-time career (our favourite). If you do, everything else will take care of itself - desire, inspiration, passion, income, relationships, health, purpose, and happiness.

Sadly however, our experience has shown, most people don't live their dreams because most people don't know what the four pillars of mind are, or how to satisfy all four in a balanced way. That is why most people are bored, frustrated, depressed and confused about life respectively, because those are the four main symptoms of not satisfying the four mind-pillars.

That’s why we created the Find True Purpose workshop. It helps people identify a purpose that equally satisfies those four pillars of mind.

It's the perfect purpose.