Smart-Work: How to be A Little More Happy!

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I don't know a single person who hasn't asked himself, at some point in time, about not getting enough return against his hard-work: Job, business or even in relationships, we feel that we are putting in our best effort to make it work, but the corresponding returns, in our opinion, are always much lower than our expectations.

Why it happens? Obviously, something goes wrong that we have no clue about. The mismatch between our effort and corresponding return is perhaps the main cause of unhappiness in every field of life. Can we do something to reduce the gap between the two? Yes we can, and by taking the following steps:

You're Born Extra-ordinary!

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“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams

You're already an extra-ordinary person, because you're born extra-ordinary. But, unfortunately, you don't realize this fact and do nothing to take its advantage.

You can do wonders, but don't believe so; you're capable of making it big in life, however, you never believe in self; you are the reflection of your thought processes, but you never think that you're extra-ordinary.

Why You Must Live in the Moment

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The world is ruthless! It neither remember your past achievements, nor go by future predictions. For the world, you're, what you stand today. If your past achievements don't carry forward any tangible benefits, you're conveniently forgotten and ignored as intangible liability.

If you're a crest-fallen professional, you're completely forgotten as if you had never existed. If you're hugely successful today, the world don't remember what your past was. You're always assessed on the basis of your current standing in social hierarchy.

Likings Never Die!

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When you start liking someone, do you ever try to find out the reason behind: Why you like that person? No, you don't. Because, liking is the manifestation of a unique shade of your emotional existence and it doesn't follow a definite criteria.

Well, over a period of time, through mutual interactions, you may find that person to be quite different than what you initially thought about. Still, in all probability, you continue with your liking, because, frankly speaking, you don't know why you do so.

The degree of liking or emotional attachment that you develop with that person is mostly determined by your initial assessment of his/her personality and, in most of the cases, it doesn't undergo any major change even if things go wrong in course of time.

Be Open in Every Life Transaction

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'If you have a good intention, sooner or later you'd become successful in life.' Said one of my creditors, whose money I returned a month after the due date but, during that period, never failed to return his call whenever he gave me a tinkle.

The fact that I didn't avoid him, even though I was unable to honor my commitment, was what inspired him to make this statement. My frank admission of the inability to stick to my words, for some compelling reasons though, happened to impress him a bit.

Destiny's Torture: God's Agent on Planet Earth!

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Sandip has always tried to live, more for others than for himself. However, in that process, while trying to keep others happy, he, perhaps, even surrendered his own legitimate claims on a minimum happiness that humans need to remain emotionally alive.

It is true that he is physically alive but I could clearly make out that, emotionally he is almost dead. Because, he has donated his own share of happiness to his near and dear ones.

Well, he belongs to a rare breed of people who value others' happiness more than their own. They just give away, everything, and unconditionally, without any expectations of returns whatsoever.

True Friends Are Forever!

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Nothing really matters in life than a positive response to a call made in distress to an old friend, whom you haven't met for more than a decade.

I don't know about your experience, but, in last few years, all the calls I made to my old friends - trust me, I must have made quite a few - were answered positively with genuine concern, making me realize that I'm not that unsuccessful in building and maintaining a few long term relationship.