All quotes from
Vishen's book
Have big goals but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.
In
the present moment, you’re in the field of possibility. How you engage with the present moment will
direct your life.
We shouldn’t do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things.
Good
attitudes yield better results.
Holding
onto grudges and anger is the single biggest factor suppressing alpha waves.
Everyone who has ever entered our lives, even those who have hurt
us, are nothing more than messengers to teach us an important lesson.
Giving is a powerful system for bringing bliss into your life.
Be merciless with your kindness.
Create a new model of reality and think of family as those whom you
truly love and want to spend time with.
Extraordinary minds create a vision for their future that is
decidedly their own and free from expectations of the culturescape. Their vision is focused on end goals that
strike a direct chord with their happiness.
Some people think that being “spiritual” means having to be content
with one’s current life. Rubbish. You should be happy no matter where you are. But that shouldn’t stop you from dreaming,
growing, and contributing.
Knowing what you want your life to look like three
years from now, what do you need to do today to make this happen?
Happiness is hackable, and Blissipline is a beautiful discipline for
leveling up your happiness every day and feeling limitless.
Can you see something if you don’t have a word for it?
Our beliefs about the world and our systems for functioning in the
world are all embedded in us through the flow and progression of culture from
the minds of the people around us into our baby brains. But there’s just one problem. Many of these beliefs and systems are
dysfunctional, and while the intention is that these ideas should guide us, in
reality they keep us locked into lives far more limited than what we’re truly
capable of.
The world of absolute truth is fact-based. The world of the
culturescape is opinion-based and agreement-based.
Life has a way of taking care of you no matter how dark it can
sometimes feel.
Place your happiness first, only when you’re happy can you truly
give your best to others.
While
your beliefs make you, your beliefs are not you.
When a belief no longer serves you, you have every right to swap it
out.
Nobody taught us optimal ways to exercise, love,
parent, eat, or ever to speed read or improve longevity.
What we see as our culture is really nothing more than a quirk of
history. It’s not necessarily right or
wrong…. Our culture is the result of thousands of years of ideas emerging,
clashing, and dissolving, battling for dominance.
Thanks to intuition, when you set end goals, you don’t necessarily
need to know how to attain them.
When you know what you want to bring forth in the world and why you
want it, choose it. Then take whatever
action intuition guides you toward taking.
With the right force, even entrenched childhood models of reality
can be completely disrupted.
Extraordinary minds do not need to seek validation from outside
opinion or through the attainment of goals.
Instead, they are truly at peace with themselves and the world around
them. They live fearlessly – immune to
criticism or praise and fueled by their own inner happiness and self-love.
Failure is often nothing more than good luck in disguise.
You
don’t have to save the world. Just don’t mess it up for the next generation.
When you create meaning around others’ actions or judge others who
don’t provide what you need, chances are you’re really just compensating for a
hole within yourself that they reminded you of.
We add meanings to every situation we see and then carry their
meanings around as simplistic and often distorted and dangerous models of
reality about our world. We then act as
if these models are laws.
There is nothing more attractive than a person who loves himself or
herself so deeply that their energy and love spill over to others and to the
world.
Every
time you give someone the power to build you up with praise, you’re also
unknowingly giving the person the power to destroy you with criticism.
Why has to do with meaning, and meaning is always made up – a mental
construct from the world of relative truth.
The problem with most people is that their problems aren’t big
enough.
All of us have a child within who never received all the love and
appreciation we deserved. We can’t go
back and fix the past. But we can take
responsibility to heal ourselves now by giving ourselves the love and
appreciate we once craved.
Human beings can function as logical beings and as intuitive
beings. When we use both capabilities,
we’re priming ourselves for extraordinary results.
Creative visualization is a practice of shifting beliefs by
meditating and then visualizing your life as you want it to evolve.
Most
of us are told to work hard. Few of us
are encouraged to work happy.
The best advice is often to listen to your heart and intuition. Remember that our models of reality all have
expiration dates. Even what we take to
be absolute truth today may not always be a truth in the future.
Stop adding meaning to events.
You will become less reactive to stress and less upset with others in
your life.
A system for living is a repeated, optimized pattern for getting
things done. How we dress in the morning
is a system. How we get through our
email is often a system. Our work, our
parenting, our exercise routine, how we make love and handle relationships, our
methods for creativity – all often fall into specific systems for living.
I compare systems of living to the software the computers use to
perform specific operations. They’re the things you do to function in the
world, from the moment you wake up to your night time rituals.
Extraordinary people don’t just have extraordinary models of
reality. They strive to ensure that
their systems for living – that is, doing what they do in the world – are well
defined, structured, and continuously optimized.
Too many of us are so busy doing that we never step back and think
about how we’re doing. Or why we’re
doing it.
Awareness is the essence of discovery. Every now and then, stop
doing and gather some research.
Step back from what you’re doing and seek to discover new ways to do
it better.
Things slip when we don’t have a detection method for knowing when
it’s happening.
We’ve
created a society where it’s considered normal to wake up with feelings of
stress, anxiety, fear, and worry. But it
isn’t. These feelings aren’t meant to be constant states. They’re alarm systems, evolved to alert us to
things we need to deal with.
Stop
postponing your happiness. Be happy
now: your thoughts and beliefs do create
your reality, but only when your present state is joyful.
