Happiness and Excitement Lead To Success...

Happiness is Creating Your Life!

For years I have been writing about happiness. What it is, where to find it, how to keep it, and how to share it.

The more time goes by, the more certain I am happiness is what we all really want.

And I also believe the more we all tie happiness to having money, the less happy we will be.

Speaking only for myself now - I feel the most alive and happy when I am super excited about a new project, goal or journey.

There is something extremely attractive in a new challenge.

When we built our first sailboat. When we built the horse farm we currently live on. When I went to sea for the first time. When I took the engineer crew position on a 165 foot mega yacht in Acapulco Mexico. When I joined the Navy and to serve on nuclear submarines. When I met my wife.

All these and many more are dreams manifested to reality. Manifested means I was so passionate I would do anything to get there!

Our newest goal is to go back to the cruising life - and share it with our two sons - Ian who is 16 and Ryan who is now 9. I want to show them there is a whole another world of people, places and cultures beyond their current experience.

With the challenge of manifesting such a dream comes work. Lots of it. We have a horse farm and business to sell (great time I picked to sell property!), 11 years of accumulated stuff to get rid of, a boat to find, purchase, and get ready for sea - and finally to move us all from a home to a small boat!

Easy.

The thing is I am so excited about it - I want to skip all the steps and just go right to sea! Why can’t it be this way?

I’ll leave that answer to you…

(But now you know what I have been up to!)

So my point is - what is it that makes you so passionate you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning to get started? What keeps you up late at night?

Is this what you are doing?

Don’t worry - be happy!

Miami

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Seth Godin on Excellence

If you are thinking about changing careers - or partners for that matter - this post from Seth Godin is well worth reading…

In the last few days, I’ve heard from top students at Cornell and other universities about my internship.

It must have been posted in some office or on a site, because each of the applications is just a resume. No real cover letter, no attempt at self marketing. Sort of, "here are the facts about me, please put me in the pile."

This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.

Not just for my little internship, but in general. Great people shouldn’t have a resume.

Here’s why: A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, I can say, "oh, they’re missing this or they’re missing that," and boom, you’re out.

Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the corporate behemoth. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?

If you don’t have a resume, what do you have?

How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects?
Or a sophisticated project they can see or touch?
Or a reputation that precedes you?
Or a blog that is so compelling and insightful that they have no choice but to follow up?

Some say, "well, that’s fine, but I don’t have those."

Yeah, that’s my point. If you don’t have those, why do you think you are remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular? It sounds to me like if you don’t have those, you’ve been brainwashed into acting like you’re sort of ordinary.

Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever.

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Happiness is nearing completion of a goal

Of course, when I say happiness is… I do not mean my happiness depends on it. I must get happiness in the title for search engine optimization! Happiness is being ranked high in the search engines!

As you might know by now, I have been working with a partner from Stuttgart Germany on a new membership website. http://www.self-improvement-lounge.com is live - but not ‘launched’. We are now working to complete a rollout of the site to affiliates and beta testers in the next two weeks.

It has been a lot of fun putting all this together - (all by skype and email) - with someone I have never met face to face from a different continent and 6 hours time difference!

Our goal is to be a destination site for people looking for tools for self improvement and development. If you have not visited yet - please take a minute to take the self improvement assessment we have designed.

This is 8 questions (just takes a couple of minutes). Once you opt in we will send you personalized results, plus a starting point with suggestions for improvement.

Your comments on your experience would be invaluable to us!

Stay tuned and I’ll let you know how it goes! But I am very excited to have a platform to be able to teach some of the idea I have spent years learning!

Go here for the free assessment.

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