Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Hump Day Helpers

I'm finishing a book by Marcus Buckingham, Live Your Strongest Life.  The underlying theme in his book is showing the difference between happy, successful women and unhappy, successful women.  Through the book he discusses and gives examples how to achieve a state of being happy and successful.  He has dialogues with both happy and unhappy women.  He shockingly reports that women as a whole become more unhappy as they age; and women are more unhappy in life overall nowadays, than they were back in the 60's.   He mentions that we busy ourselves with things that are not adding value to our lives and we often get sidetracked from what we really want in life.  He continues to writes that what we "amplify" we focus on.  Meaning, whatever your attention amplifies will be the predominate action or thought.  If we focus on negativity or our weaknesses, or what we aren't doing--we will have a predominance of negativity and negative results.  If we focus on positivity or the positive strides we have made, or if we keep our eye on the prize--we will have positive results.  It seems to me that as women, we have to work extra hard to be, stay and maintain our happiness.  I'm willing to do the work...are you? Let's go...start living your strongest life!!!      

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