How to Be Happy, Healthy, Rich, and Wise

by Ray Bertani

This is going to be one of my longer articles so be sure to read it when you are not pressed for time. I was considering breaking it into two or three parts and posting them (in little steps) but I decided that it would be more helpful to you to keep it as one article. Don't let the length fool you...the exercise itself is quite simple to do and very effective. The secret is commitment and follow-through. Like everything else in life, if you want to collect the results you must be willing to do the work...a download (34)pply the way of doing things on a daily and continuous basis...not just for a week. My suggestion is stick to this for at least 30 days. At that time, (figure out the worth, amount, or quality of) the results and decide whether or not you want to continue. My guess is that you will.

The following is a simple exercise that will have a very deep/extreme effect on your life...it will make you - Happy, Healthy, Rich and Wise

The "Happy, Healthy, Rich and Wise" Way of doing things

Here is a simple exercise that if applied on a daily basis will produce huge dividends for you in a very short time. At the risk of being over overly-simple if we focus and act on things that will make us happy, healthy, rich and wise on a consistent daily basis, we will by default be moving toward actualizing our full (possible greatness or power). This is one of my favorite exercises simply because it is so easy to do...and to remember to do. The exercise is simply this; do one thing every day that adds/gives to your overall happiness, good health, increased wealth and growing wisdom.

It doesn't have to be something huge, actually small bites are the way to go. The explanation (of why something works or happens the way it does) here is that small consistent changes over time will result in huge results. The secret is to maintain the small changes while adding added/more small changes, giving you compounding benefit. Let's discuss each category briefly.

Happy:

As each of us is (like nothing else in the world), we have different things that make us happy. The problem is that we see happiness as this huge idea that is (depending on and needing) so many external factors that we (accept or give in) ourselves to the fact that happiness is for made-up stories or is dependent on (accomplishing or gaining with effort) a specific result or results. Nothing could be further from the truth. True happiness comes from the appreciation of what we have, the little things that we take as something that will never go away on a daily basis. Focus on those things and happiness will be a way of life. Do one thing every day that make you happy, makes you smile. If eating salami sandwiches makes you happy, then eat salami sandwiches. If dancing makes you happy then turn on the radio and dance. If playing with your kids makes you happy, then set time aside to play with you kids. If watching a sunset makes you happy, then put watch a sunset in your day-timer and make sure you are where you can see the sunset.

Spend five minutes every morning when you wake up and just before you go to bed and list 10 things that you are thankful for. It doesn't matter what it is, the only thing that matters is that you are focused on what makes you happy and you are doing something everyday to satisfy that focus.

Healthy:

Much like happiness, being healthy is all about making the right choices and doing the right things. Health is not about living a life of (not having something wanted or needed) and (not doing something) and doesn't have to be a very hard challenge. You can do anything and eat anything as long as it's in moderation. Even too much of a good thing isn't good for you. Do one thing every day that adds/gives to your overall good health. That might be taking the stairs instead of using the elevator or escalator. Cutting back by one cup of coffee a day and/or use half the sugar than you usually do in your cup of coffee. Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat a salad with your lunch and dinner. Go for a walk after dinner. Play tag with your kids. Skip a desert from time to time. Eat smaller portions. Drink more water. Take five minutes every morning when you wake up and just before you go to bed to breathe deeply, maybe just before listing all the things that you are thankful for.

You will notice that a lot of the things that are good for you, that add/give to your overall good health are also some of the things that make you happy. You can kill two birds with one stone, sometimes three. For instance, playing tag with your kids can satisfy your daily activity for both happiness and health. If watching a sunset makes you happy then go for a half hour walk to the spot where you are going to watch the sunset and what the heck, take a salami sandwich with you. If dancing is something that makes you happy then you are by default getting healthier as you are getting happier. It doesn't have to be very hard you don't have to have an expensive membership to a fancy gym. It doesn't have to be all including and rule your life. Simply do one thing everyday that will benefit your overall health and fitness. The (something produced along with something else) of this is that the healthier you get, the happier you are and the better you look and feel about yourself

Rich:

Increasing your wealth or adding to your wealth is not as very hard as you may think. It can be (accomplished or gained with effort) through daily choices and behaviours that support your wealth (success plan(s)/way(s) of reaching goals). To put things as simply as possible, you must secure/make sure of that you have money at the end of the month, not month at the end of the money. Some daily activities that you can do to add/give to your wealth could be to buy plain and common thing/not a brand-name drug products instead of brand name products, or buy at bulk stores like Costco or Price Club. Other activities that would benefit you (related to money) would be to read about wealth management and learn about proper investment ways of doing things and (success plans/ways of reaching goals). Remember, no one will take care of your money like you will. Depend on experts when needed but reduce your reliance on them as much as possible.

Remember that cup of coffee that you cut out of your daily (something commonly done) why not use the money you saved by not buying that small restaurant latte (sorry Starbucks) to create wealth for yourself. I know it seems a bit far fetched, but if you put the three or five dollars a day that you save by buying one less cup of coffee a day in a interest bearing investment or (way of investing money), you will be amazed at the long term money-based benefit you will get. Five dollars a day may not sound like much, but over the course of a year it means an extra $1825 of savings plus whatever interest you earn. Over the course of a life time, when you take compound interest into accoundownload (33)t it could be worth hundred of thousands of dollars when you retire.

That one small change that was meant to benefit your physical health had the added benefit of adding/giving to your wealth also. Another way of adding to your wealth would be to attend workshops and (school) courses (related to/looking at/thinking about) your chosen field and career, continue to develop yourself professionally to create a greater demand for your services and as a result a greater (money paid for working).

The best thing that you can do to improve your (related to managing money) position in life is change your focus to one of (oversupply/large amount), not (having very little of something important). If you have been following the (opinions about what could or should be done about a situation) in my recent posts you are already leaning toward a life of (oversupply/large amount). Spend some time each day in wonder and amazement of the (without limits or an end) possibilities out there for you, the beautiful life that you are living and the even better life waiting for you. Adopt a belief that says everything comes to you easily and extremely easily and soon it will.

Wise:

This category goes hand and hand with each of the three earlier categories. Constantly be searching for better ways of gaining the results that you want in your life. Gain wisdom in matters of happiness, health and wealth. This can be (accomplished or gained with effort) through taking some time each day to read a good book, attend a (school) course, listen to tapes or CD's, talk to a full of knowledge person, carefully think, talk to your kids, research a role model or simply learn through doing. The important thing to remember here is that learning never stops. You must continue to learn through your whole life. What you learn is not as important as that you learn. Make a loyalty to/promise to develop your thinking ability and knowledge base on a daily basis.

In Closing;

For most people, each one of these categories carries with it a feeling of overwhelm, a feeling that the accomplishment of happiness, healthiness, wealth and wisdom can only be (accomplished or gained with effort) through hard work and life long dedication, that they are somehow just out of our reach unless through extreme will power and resolve we fight hand over fist to make them happen, even so there is no guarantee that they will ever happen. With that thought process and belief is there any wonder why most don't even attempt to gain mastery over these areas. The thought that these things are meant only for the best of us, the lucky, the chosen few, or the most controlled/punished is complete and total bunk. We have been conditioned to believe that these things are very hard to reach and hard to see/hard to catch. THEY ARE NOT. If you have been paying attention so far, you will notice that there is a theme here. That theme is simpleness. It should not be very hard, in fact if it seems very hard, then you're doing it wrong. Simple activities done daily will result in huge change over a long time. Another point to remember is that it should be fun. You weren't put on this earth to suffer, what ever you do have fun at it. There is no reason why we can't get happy, healthy, rich and wise and have fun while we are doing it.