Jennifer O'Neill
The Pursuit of Happiness
"It's not about if you have chaos in your life, it's about how well you manage it." (Location 78)
There are no excuses here; if you don’t like what’s happening, fix it. If you don’t want to fix it, then don’t complain about it! (Location 101)
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Make choices that are in alignment with who you are and where you want to see yourself in the future. (Location 103)
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Understand that ultimately you are the final decision maker in your own life. There is no one to blame; you are the CEO in charge! (Location 116)
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The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people’s behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people (Location 232)
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accepting the choices that you make. (Location 234)
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environment.” So do not alter what is best for you in order to calm someone else’s environment. (Location 238)
"Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!" (Location 240)
Imagine that you feel lighter, and happy about the daily events. Do this in the morning. (Location 271)
"When you follow your dream, life is easy. When you follow someone else's dream, life is unsatisfying. When you forget to dream, life is just plain confusing!" (Location 295)
We all have faults and flaws, that’s just life! No one is superior and no one is immune to making bad choices. It is how you learn and grow from all of these different experiences, that is what life is all about. So the next time you hear what someone says about you, don’t take it so personally. Change your view, and instead of taking it to heart and letting it spill over into your world, it should give you a little bit of insight into their world and you can think to yourself, “Well I know how your day is going!” (Location 494)
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This is where it can get tricky. It is funny how much time and energy you can put into helping other people solve their problems, but when it comes to your own life, settling is just easier sometimes than initiating change. Change is not easy, but it is rewarding, and you have to want change more than you want to settle! (Location 515)
Make a list: Make a list of five things that you would like to change in your life. Things like your job, your (Location 519)
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Write it on paper: Take five sheets of paper and at the top of each page, write one of the five things that you would like to change. (Location 521)
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Address each piece of paper (or each issue): Under each heading you are going to give some thought to what it is that would help you resolve each issue, or change it for the better. (Location 522)
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Make a game plan: Make a game plan to clear out the past and bring in the new. (Location 527)
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initiated! If you are the one wanting change, and stewing, then you are the one that is going to need to be proactive. (Location 529)
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This energetic shift is of great importance; your intent shifts your energy, and what it is you are projecting out into the Universe. (Location 533)
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Problem solve: Treat each item on your list as if your boss has given you a task to complete, and the task is to resolve each problem to the best of your ability. (Location 536)
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Set a date: (Location 539)
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Note your progress: this is very important! (Location 542)
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Review your progress at the end of the month! (Location 544)
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1) Take a piece of paper and write down every thing you are worried about right now. Anything you are worrying about, bills, school, a relationship, do not skimp here, write it all down. 2) Then seal this (Location 622)
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in an envelope and put it somewhere you will remember with a date to be opened in three months. 3) In three months (Location 624)
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when you open the envelope, you will most likely be surprised at all of the things you were worried about that turned out just fine. You will also probably have forgotten about many of the things that you put on the list. (Location 625)
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Because if you do not disengage, anger, bitterness, and resentment, all of the things that come with engaging in this type of behavior, will then “park” itself in your energetic body. (Location 681)
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figuring out what your wants and your needs are. (Location 752)
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what would your ideal day be like? (Location 758)
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3) Next figure out what your ideal home situation would be. (Location 765)
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Imagine going through a typical workweek, and what you would be doing every day. (Location 772)
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take a few minutes out of your day and visualize your future, your ideal day/life, a year from now. (Location 777)
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really good time to do this kind of visualizing is during your "falling asleep" time. (Location 779)
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start making choices that align with where you want to see yourself a year from now. (Location 783)
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Make choices that MOVE YOU FORWARD! Because most likely you are currently making choices that are keeping you right where you are, in your current situation. (Location 789)
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Therein lies the difference. People who have acquired large sums of money in their lifetime (some of them started with less then you have right now), never needed to be able to “see” how it was possible in order to “believe” that it could happen to them. They just “knew” that it was, and therefore “seeing” it happen became their reality! (Location 859)
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Holding love hostage is when you do not like (Location 890)
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someone else’s behavior, so you decide not to “reward” him or her with your love. In other words, if they behave a certain way or do something you don’t agree with, you make sure you do not show them any love. That is not love in its pure form; that would be toxic love. (Location 890)
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as a result of doing all of those things. To never encounter any disappointment from yourself, or others, is unrealistic. (Location 897)
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It is very important for you to truly see your loved ones for who they are, in order to offer pure love unconditionally. Why? Because it helps to eliminate disappointment and (Location 900)
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expectations on your end. (Location 901)
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the strong utilize the power they have, and the weak deny they have any power at all! (Location 1011)
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