HAPPINESS VISON

August 13, 2008
BE HAPPY ZONE
By Lionel Ketchian

If it is your vision is to positively impact the world, being happy can bring your goal into reality. The world can either move toward peace or chaos. Your intention and subsequent actions will make the difference. Never under estimate the power you have to change the world.

Let's give up trying to make a difference and let's all be the positive difference. Let's become the change we want to see. Yes, being the difference is the power we need to positively affect the world. Being happy is a real power that can make the difference for all of us.

I have met so many people who want to make a positive difference in the world. I embrace each and every one of them. Many people are becoming Happiness Facilitators and starting new Happiness Clubs. Almost every day, I receive news from people who are making the decision to start their own club.

We now have about 40 Happiness Clubs here in the United States and around the world. Among the new ones is the Happiness Club of Jerusalem, Israel, which started holding meetings in July. Rabbi Zelig Pliskin is the Happiness Facilitator for the group. Make sure you download the book by Rabbi Pliskin called Gateway to Happiness that is available free on our website. Also, the Dubai Happiness Club in the United Arab Emirat with Dina Sabnani as the Happiness Facilitator began meeting in July.

"I are happy, grateful and delighted that I have started my Happiness Club." This is what I am hearing from these Happiness Facilitators. Some have been running their clubs for over a year, and some for only a month. They are experiencing the value they are giving others with their service. Many have received emails about the difference they have made in people's lives. When they begin to see the impact they have created in their communities they realize something. I believe that they are realizing "meaning and purpose" in their life. We have a free Learn How to Start Your Own Happiness Club download on our website.

Meaning and purpose is what we all want, whether we realize it or not. Starting a Happiness Club is fulfilling that purpose for many people because they are connecting to others and serving them with happiness. We are all hungry for happiness and serving it to others is a great way to satisfy our own hunger for it.

We now have about 18 people who are taking the monthly training sessions with Ph.D. candidate Aymee Coget to become Happiness Facilitators. Each month Aymee goes over how to run your meeting and then presents a monthly Happiness Key. You don't have to take these sessions, they are available to those who want them. We also have the 12 Happiness Keys (which is part of Aymee's course) from Dr. Bob Nozik's book, Happy 4 Life, available to you on our website for a free download.

You have been hearing a great deal about happiness in the news these days. Happiness is here to stay and is growing by leaps and bounds. Happiness is about power. Being happy teaches us not to give our power away to people and circumstances that are out of our control. It is the things that are in our control that we seem to neglect. It is time to take control of the one thing we actually have control over. This is our mind and our heart.

The time has come to stop listening to our mind and listen to our heart. Happiness is taking control of our thoughts so that we can think with our heart. When we listen to our heart we can control fear because fear is in the mind.

Being happy can change the world for a very simple reason. Happiness is our common language. We all speak happiness because we can communicate with happiness to all people. We all want happiness because it is a common denominator for humanity. Happiness is spoken here! When we communicate with happiness we begin to eliminate the barriers between people and countries. Let's all begin to use the gift of happiness to become the change we want to see in the world.

When we are being happy, we are taking control of our inner peace. Happiness radiates peace, as it is an authentic response of the soul. We can make this one simple change in our lives…being happy now. This is the moment that we gain our power over ourselves. We must change the fight we have within ourselves to see any outer change.

It's all up to you. Happiness becomes you.

Lionel Ketchian is the founder of the Happiness Club and can be reached at PrintLRK@aol.com. The website is www.HappinessClub.com.