Comments on: Success: Your Happiness Filter

By: Betty

Betty — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:05:20 +0000

Hi, Warren: The fact that you are reading N. Hill’s book is an indication that you are truly moving ahead in your thought process and, therefore, your career. I read the book many years ago and it made an incredible impact on me, also. New versions come out almost daily, but he was the true master.
Continue reading and enjoying.
Betty

By: Betty

Betty — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:01:48 +0000

Hi, Carla: let us know what your colleagues and members think.
Would be fun to get some outsiders reaction.
Thank you for supporting SCORE – you are an example of what we are all about.
Betty

By: Carla Mandell

Carla Mandell — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:22:19 +0000

Betty

Thank you. I’m sure my colleagues and members will enjoy reading this article as much as I did. We list SCORE as a primary resource for our US members.

Thank you again,
Carla

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:04:51 +0000

This was so timely, I’m presently reading the book: Success through a Postive Mental Attitude, by Napoleon Hill, and the book is wonderful I wish alot more people would read it.

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:41:26 +0000

Hi, Theresa: Yes, we all need reminders. I needed one this morning when my Jack Russell had a little ‘mistake’ on the carpet. The Happiness Filter is needed at home as well as in business.
Have a fun day.
Betty

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:36:20 +0000

Thanks for the reminder, it was needed.

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Hi, Carla: thank you for your kind words. Please go ahead and use the Happiness Filter with your associates and friends. It is a good way to look at positive approaches and my goal is to make the lives of business women happier and wealthier. I shouldn’t say just women as men need to be happy, also, even when doing tough work to make their business successful. I love the filter idea as it gives you a tangible image to remember when things get down. I think about a furnace filter that needs to be changed and when I get down I mentally rush to put it in the dish washer to get clean and sparkler again.
Hope your associates enjoy the image, also. Let me know if it works. Please tell th em about, SCORE, also. Most of us have happy filters!
Betty

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:06:27 +0000

Hi, Dawn: love your Happy Meal story. I, myself, go for vanilla ice cream. Growing up there was a very old woman living next door to us and she used to call and ask if I could go to the store (walking distance) and get her some vanilla ice cream. She said it helped her head aches, but she lived alone and it was hard for her to get around so I think the head aches were her excuse to see someone. Very insightful lady: She knew being with people made her happy and nothing can compete with vanilla ice cream. As uneducated as she was, she knew her fate was in her own hands.
She just found a way to turn on her happiness filer and I am grateful for now I cannot have ice cream without being happy myself.
Thanks for your comment.
Betty

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:59:51 +0000

Hi, Mia: sometimes we forget that we are responsible for our actions, energy and emotions. You are spot on when you say staying positive sustains me. I like the idea of talking about bumps in the road. We all hit them, personally and in our cars, but if we take a clue from our cars, we hit the bump and keep right on going.
Thank you for the victimized concept. Very seldom are we actually vicitmized – except in our minds.
Betty

By: Mia

Mia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:52:04 +0000

Remaining positive is what sustains me, both personally and professionally. Once you adopt a fear-based stance, that energy resonates with your clients.

Remaining positive when the numbers aren’t optimal, helps keep you healthier and sends a message to your clients that you have faith in a positive outcome I am not talking about faking it. I mean genuinely feeling as if things will improve.

Looking for the silver lining in each experience is also useful, as is trying to find the teachable moment in it. If you proactively engage in using each experience as an opportunity to grow either personally or professionally, your chances of a positive outcome are tremendously increased.

Conversely, if you tend to become victimized and downtrodden each time you hit a bump, the outcome will generally follow your expectations.