I’m clear now about the key to happiness does in fact lie inside and not due to outside circumstances. That true joy comes from gratitude and becoming a person you fall in love with. Simon this is a great message. Thanks for being you, as you said in your book, you never know how your own courage can impact the life of another human being.
I am clear now that happiness is a choice. We can choose our emotions in the moment and change them like flicking on or off a light switch. We never need to be miserable again, because it is all a choice. We can always choose love over fear.. After surviving two heart attacks and a mini stroke last year, brought on by Covid and multiple health problems afterwards, I recognize that life can be over in an instant and I will never waste another moment being miserable or feeling sorry for myself. Most of our drama is self-created. Even if someone else is harming us, they are only doing so because we are allowing it in some way. We have the power to leave the situation. We don't need to over think everything. My mantra is to "Just be".
I can agree. I’ve been in a constant struggle with eating healthy, work, starting my own business, finding good people to network with, and maintaining a great marriage. I’ve had less, I’ve had more, and wasn’t happy. Every day is a test, and I admire those who are able to remain calm and focused when things aren’t going well.
This has proven 100% accurate in my life - the more happy and content ai am within myself and with what I already have, more good things come to me, often in a miraculous seeming fashion 🥰 Thanks for this great reminder.
You are right! Happyness depends on the state of mind. But one thing I would like to say... with wealth your security will be better. Health, chances, education and much more. Thats why you struggeled and went for career. It does not make you happier, but it secures you and loved ones. It may even settle the ground for a family. But you speak the truth and I am with you. Happyness does not lei in posessions, but in your state of mind. It has to be free of worries and stay positive. Like your video. Cya
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them, but because we had them" - Seneca
Thank you for this video. I felt a huge surge of happiness with the words 'here and now'. I hope i can remember this always whenever life starts to take a toll.
Thanks for this today Simon. I know these things. I learned these things. Noted: We need reminders, of these things. Our tendency to get lost, is a part of us. We need, to seek center, and remind ourselves of these things. I’m thankful for my best friend. We support one another in lows and celebrate the highs. He reminds me of the things I forget and I teach him the things I know. It is truly one of the most fruitful relationships I’ve held in life.
@@simonalexandero I willl dive into your book. Thanks for being thoughtful enough to share what you have learned as well as open enough to continue learning. These are the things the world needs.
0:56 i was about to comment this quote when u said it! When I started journaling (the 5 minute journal), it taught me to practice more gratitude, even the simplest things in life like having a comfy bed, a yoga mat I use daily for my yoga practices..it makes me look forward more positively to conquer my day knowing I am already surrounded by abundance and things I can use to build my dream life. It’s also my favorite daily affirmation. ❤
I`ve heard a similar message a number of times prior to viewing this video. For whatever reason, it never resonated with me. But today, this message delivered by you, completely hit home. I finally get it. Well done! Thank-you.
I’ll go back to my 20 years young self about my experience, and I think my young self will never get it! Live life through experience of your own rather than somebody else’s!
Thanks for sharing the valuable conversation. I love practising gratitude. I used to write down 10 things that I'm grateful for every morning when I hit the rock bottom, and that's how I feel so much better just within few months. We don't have the past and future, we only have the present moment 🙏🏻 It reminds me the book " The Power of Now". A wonderful book emphasising the importance of being present
It is always good to be reminded to be grateful because life goes so quickly, and we forget where God has brought us from and where we could have been. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this! It’s inspired me to slow down more, love the tip on sending messages to those I appreciate the most, don't do enough of that at the moment
You and Eckhart Tolle had the greatest possible influence on my life!!! Thank you so much for sharing this and just for being this brave to explore these topics. I literally have no one who understands this, no one to talk to about it. It amazes me you even brought up his name and I had a feeling already when i clicked the video. Maybe the world is awakening
I really enjoyed being held by and holding another when I was in relationships. That I miss. I wish there were someone here to comment when something bonkers happens on the news. Thus I look back on when I was in relationships and had a housemate as happier times than seemingly endless singlehood . But I hear what you’re saying loud and clear. Stuff and achievements do not happiness make.
Wow, amazing video! I am grateful for you taking the time to make this video! I love what Buddha said about going into the woods and not eating anything. Both having nothing, AND having everything, are both empty. Your happiness HAS to come from some internal source. My internal source cones from Jesus Christ and the fulfillment He gives. Gratitude is SUCH an important thing. I am grateful to be able to enjoy my morning cup(s) of coffee today! Thank you!
2:54 I disagree, if your sick or unhealthy, working toward getting healthy is important. You need to push yourself to improve, but if you are just “happy” being miserable and sick, that’s like a hell
I make 200k USD a year, have a great career, have a nice house, beautiful wife and kids, sports cars, fast motorcycles, video games - but I'm just not happy, every day just feels like im trying to make it or trying to recharge for tomorrow or feeling anxious about what can happen. Not sure if Im alone with feeling this way or maybe there is something wrong with me.
Two things that made a huge difference in making me feel less anxious in my life. 1. Stopped watching the news and listening to political talk radio/podcasts. 2. Looked into Bitcoin.
🎉 excellent message. I think Buddha made it clear that a part of being content also includes enjoying the small things in life and it's not all refraining from the mundane and mortification. He said it when he was "ditched" by his fellow sages who said he had betrayed them because he ate some rice a girl brought him.... Unfortunately many people have this dull self mortification idea of Buddhist culture whereas I think it is true liberation 🙏☮️
Important thing I learned early competing in marathons, weight training, undergrad and postgrad and in the city was to never compare yourself to one person - sure can learn from biographies of those similar paths we want to follow but always compare yourself with yourself and if you want to aim for goals use statistics. Ie you want to finish a marathon in a 5% times, you want to create a investment portfolio with x income or you want to be able to donate x% to various charities each year etc. Always measure achievement on your own progress and never against one individual- you never know what advantages they have via connections, capital, genetic etc its unhealthy and we are all unique. We have our own unique path and own unique journey.
A lot of so called youtuber or influencers, I noticed they all want to make a point, specially nowadays so prevalent the subject : meaning of existence, and come up with a personal conclusion, people of earth wants to be heard, now before I leave this comment here, the problem is not what we think now, the issue in hands is that we were not taught about what this experience really is, why? You figure it out; nobody wants to talk about the end, so we kept on believing that this is eternal, therefore keep on achieving something is an escape valve, reality, better is to start to learn the brochure of next life, as a Christian a True believer I recommend to Trust and believe the Son of God, is the only true medicine for all of us, before we lose our memory.
That happiness is a choice - that it isn’t to be found in something outside of ourselves and that it begins with gratitude and is cultivated through our thoughts about what happens to us ❤️
@@simonalexandero right! yes we should choose to be happy when we wake up, I can be on auto pilot sometimes, work etc but I'm trying to be grateful in my mornings and choose to smile u have any more practices to help us on this path?
You cannot have happiness if you’re swamped with stress and anxiety about money. Sure, everybody has a little of that but I’m talking extreme. Try being 60, living on a fixed income without a dime of savings because you’re on disability. At every turn some sort of collapse is waiting. Live for money. I’d only say that you need to be poor at some point to do so. “Old, sick, die” is better with money.
When you are happy you are doing prayer and then eating and then having sex and then sleeping and then waking up to count money and getting ready for the work you love. Repeat
@@simonalexanderoActually , I was more curious to know if you are a serious content creator who is proud of your work or one of those RU-vid self help yapstars who cares only about the views. You passed the reaction test. Thanks and wish you the same
It’s sad how people accept death as undeniable choice and path. Chose Orthodoxy, meet and become one with Christ and with his power you will beat even the death…
The mindset is that when we think we've achieved XY or reached Z then we will alow ourselve to feel happy. We are looking for an emotion at the end. The question is why wait why not have the feeling now? I think gratitude helps you realize what you have to be happy about right now. If you have food and a roof over your head be happy, so many don't even have what we think is a simple thing thats taken for granted.
