“Many people think things will make them happy. They compare themselves to neighbors and feel bad. They want what others have. They want what the media promotes as important. They feel a void and bad if they don’t attain a certain measure of success or acquire the objects of their desire. People have been misled. It serves a purpose. It keeps them worker bees who profit others. They trade their time for money.

It is sad. The reason is that industry, corporations, media, and culture perpetuate the myth. Work hard for success and happiness. That lie was perpetuated with the rise of industrialization when companies needed loyally dedicated workers to drive profits. When we went from farming to manufacturing much changed. Edward Bernays, the father of Public Relations, originally called Propaganda, did it. It taught us to spend!

He told bosses he could get people to buy their products and he helped create a marketing revolution based on desire. He got women to smoke. He made people think they were less than okay because they needed products to be better and things to be happy and successful. It was a huge campaign to infiltrate the minds of citizens and turn them into consumers. It worked. People spent money! This made the corporate bosses happy.

DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF

Even today, those who claim to help others perpetuate the same myths and lies and keep people trapped and dependent on acquiring things instead of speaking the truth and helping liberate them. They say you must work hard and sacrifice everything to be successful. And to prove you are successful you need things that show others you have made it. Then you’ll be happy. The message is you won’t be happy until… later… until then…

Then you will be important. Do it really, really hard. Take massive action. Miss out on things you’d enjoy because success and money matters most. Then when you have the money spend it on things that demonstrate your worth and others will think you are important, and you will too. Sad, but true. My mission has been to call them out and share the good news. The good news is there is a better way. It is easier too.

It’s important people begin to realize comparison and contrasting and accumulating things doesn’t make you happy or successful. So many want to reach the top and when they do are disappointed by what they discover. There is NO thing at the top! There is ONLY YOU. You must first learn to love and appreciate yourself AND others to be happy and feel successful. If you are first happy you will be happy with or without anything else.

There’re those who feel happy and successful with very little or nothing. There’re those with everything who don’t. They could, but are misguided and deceived. Life is the lesson. The journey IS the destination. NOW is the only moment you have. Stop placing your faith in things and become the person you are meant to be. There is nothing wrong with having things. Appreciate them but down’t be owned by them Many are owned.

Unless you get things and lose yourself in the process. There are ways to have both, but it isn’t the way you’ve been led to believe. Yes, you can work hard, risk, sacrifice and miss out on time with family and friends to be successful or you can work smarter not harder. You can enjoy more while making more. You can discover how to be successful and happy within, just as you are. Be it first. Then you’ll do right and you can have things.

Making that discovery leads to doing what is necessary, and NO more than is necessary, to have what you’d like to include in your life. In this way you will discover that happiness and success is NOW, not later. It isn’t the end of the journey but the journey that matters most. Then you can make all your moments magical, memorable, miraculous and magnificent. If you are so filled with joy nothing else matters, life is great. Get it? I hope so.

There’s an easier, more delightful and fulfilling way to live life and operate in the world than following the lies you’ve been told. You must shift away from society’s way of focusing on the world outside of you, the things, events, others and circumstances for your success and happiness AND focus on who you are within. ‘Be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.’ More to come. Understand this and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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