Self-Help Happiness Blog

My Christmas wish to you is that you enjoy being you.  There is no greater gift a person can have than self-acualization, to be comfortable with who you are and fulfilled with what you do.  Here is a poem that one of our Daily Dose of Happiness Subscribers sent me on the topic:

Today is right where you need to be
It is where you need to be, to get you to where you are going tomorrow
And tomorrow will be better than any day before
Live life for yourself, be true to yourself, and everything you deserve will fall into place

What makes you “younique”?  Sure, you have a unique retina and a unique finger print.  And your dental records are all your own.  You might even have your own personal file at the CIA, the KGB or Interpol.

But what makes you most unique is your experiences, thousands even millions of moments that nobody else has shared.  So many moments that have shaped who you are.  So many reactions that have programmed you how to process information and react now to any situation in your own special way.  So many lessons you have learned, even without realizing, that inspire you to achieve, to share, to act, to think and to do everything you do.

Keep those younique experiences coming.

From today’s Daily Dose of Happiness:

Bravo!  You have just been awarded best actor.  And best director.  And best original screenplay.  In fact, it’s a clean sweep.  You are the best of everything in this production you refer to simply and humbly as “my life”. 

Yes, we each direct the most fascinating and complex production imaginable - our lives.  We write the script and choose the cast.  We set the stage and make the choices.  We pick out the costumes and makeup and edit the script.

Well done.  Bravo!

Here is a great post on how to deal with criticism.  It gives a 6-step plan that should help those of us who find that challenging.

The post begins:  How do you deal with criticism? Ever noticed how some people are able to take criticism much better then others? Are you one of those people whom goes “off the deep end”, or wish you would have said “THAT!”. You want to be the true criticism master? Have a Teflon shield everything criticism will bounce off on? …