***The One Step That Ensures Personal Happiness
I love reaching positive people. The energy they emit is like fuel for the inspirational fire to people around them.
Years ago, within an early post-college job, I overheard a mature co-worker ask another much younger associate why he was always in an excellent mood. Even today, the result still sticks with me at night. When the question was posed, the younger guy responded, “I have a job to complete. I can be miserable and get it done or I can be happy and do it. Either way, I still have to do it. So, I choose to become happy.”
That maybe it was.
Simple, direct, and powerful.
As a man starting out in the business world, that moment were built with a tremendous affect me. Here would be a contemporary who embodied the type of peer whose characteristics I wanted to emulate.
Years after I left that job, I ran into him some day. He explained that a new Vice President had seriously board and also the old place had become quite different. The atmosphere at work was, in the words, terrible. Nonetheless, he'd recently left our old company as he was finding it difficult being happy. I heard both a sadness plus a familiar happiness as part of his voice.
The sadness seemingly descends from the fact that an enjoyable place to work had degenerated into an office building of negativity, distrust, and belittlement. His happiness, however, was genuinely more personable. He had decided to start his own business. After some good and bad, he began doing quite well. Most importantly, he was happy.
Isn't that what life really boils down to?
Being happy?
Choosing to become happy?
It's an alternative. It may not continually be easy. There are always going to become setbacks and challenges; but, as we can face them a positive attitude, then overcoming them gets to be much more obtainable. Let's try and adopt the attitude of my old co-worker. To realize whatever the task is, that people tackle it with positivity, and choose to get happy while the process.
When have you ever looked at a situation, smiled, and chosen to be happy — regardless if the events unfolding before you decide to weren't that which you planned or anticipated?
Live on Fire!
D. Luke Iorio, CPC, PCC, ELI-MP
President & CEO
Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)
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