Happ-E-Newsletter for May 1, 2007

Welcome My Dear Friend!

Join Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, from Jerusalem, Israel, the author of the best book on happiness: Gateway to Happiness. Call from your phone at your home and connect with the new VIRTUAL HAPPINESS CLUB with Dr. Cynthia Barnett. You can listen and talk with a great happiness teacher on Monday, May 7, 2007 from 9:00 - 10:00 PM, EST in the USA. Phone number: (712) 775-7000 Your Access Code is: 122856#.

We are happy to announce the new World Wide Web Happiness Club, as the newest chapter.

The World's First Internet Voice Discussion Room for Becoming Happier Will Open on Monday, June 4, 2007. It will be open every Monday from 9:00 - 11:00 PM. We have reserved space for you and are looking forward to having you join us. You will be able to listen and you can talk, or you can communicate with text messages on your keyboard.

You may only need the speakers on your computer to listen. If you would like to speak to others in the room, you can buy an inexpensive microphone. A cheap headset will work just like a microphone. You can speak into the headset and listen through your computer speakers.

George Ortega the host of the The Happiness Show on TV and a happiness researcher and promoter, is breaking new ground by setting up the world's first happiness room on Paltalk, the Internet's #1 voice-chat web site. George Ortega and Richard D. Banton, LCSW, of The Happiness Institute in Wilmington, NC and the facilitator of the Wilmington, North Carolina Happiness Club will be the moderators for the meetings. George's goal is to keep the new Paltalk happiness room open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

People worldwide will be joining together to boost their happiness through this new interactive Paltalk voice room. Anyone wanting to become happier will be able to achieve this noble goal by joining the free Happiness Club World Wide Web for training sessions and discussions about happiness.

Advice about downloading the program:

15 Important Things For You're Happiness!

As Oprah says, "Everything begins with a decision."

1. Make The Happiness Decision. If you don't decide to be happy now, you won't do it later. The
decision is an intention to create what you want. The decision draws events and people toward you that create positive outcomes. The decision makes you aware of things in yourself and around you. The happiness decision is your responsibility, not someone else's. No one can make you happy. God can't make you happy. Only your decision to be happy will allow you to respond to happiness and well being.

2. Understand The Value Of Happiness. If you don't value happiness, you won't have it. Happiness has great value, only if you take the time to understand the value of it. You deserve to be happy, don't undervalue yourself.

3. Happiness Is Within You. Don't look to the outside for your happiness. Happiness is an inside job. Don't let any situation be more important to you than your happiness. Situations are neutral, even if you think they are good or bad. The way you think about the situation is what makes you unhappy. The way you think sets up your reaction, not the situation itself.

4. Think About Your Choices. What choices do you have now? It is all a matter of what choices you have available to you. Thinking about your problems is not thinking. Stop dwelling on your problems and start focusing on your solutions. Thinking is when you are creatively finding solutions and choices to eliminate your problem.

5. Be Grateful. Be thankful about something all the time. What are you grateful for now? Every day, think of three things that you are grateful for and write them down in a Gratitude Journal. It does not matter if you come up with the same thing once in awhile, just list three things every day. This has been scientifically proven to produce long term happiness results. Here are some gratitude hints for you. Make your list simple things. For instance, be grateful you can see the paper you are writing your gratitude list on and that you have eyes to see. Be grateful you can pick up a pen and you have fingers and a hand to write with. You're alive, you can breath, you have food, you have shelter, keep looking for the simple things.

6. Watch Your Thinking. Our unhappiness is a result of our thinking. Don't think about what you don't want or what you don't like. Control your negativity or your thinking is going to make you unhappy. Think about your choices or what you want. Be aware of your thoughts as they drift in and don't let negative ones find a place to land in your mind. Don't give them a home; let them drift right back out again.

7. Learn Acceptance. Deal with change. When you don't accept something that has already happened, you create resistance to it. The resistance you are creating will cause you to suffer. The change has already happened and if their is nothing you can do about it. If you continue to resist it, you will make yourself unhappy.

8. Now Is Your Point Of Power For Happiness. Don't dwell in the past or worry about the future. If you're not focused on now, your awareness will be diminished. Accidents, mishaps and even crime are more likely to happen to you.

9. Use Happiness As Your Strategy. Use the power of happiness in your life when things don't go the way you think they should. This is important especially when things are not going your way, or you are not getting what you want, or when you are feeling sad or down. It is important to use that power all the time. Use it especially when things are not going well for you. The power of happiness helps you detach from outside events so you don't internalize your reactive thoughts into negative compulsive obsessive thinking.

10. Act As If You're Happy. If you act as if... than you will be happy. Acting as if you are happy allows your brain to believe you are happy and tells your body to respond in like manner. This way, your body is not stressed out and your brain is producing all the right chemicals and drugs to keep you stress free. Act as if and your new state of being will create a happy atmosphere for your psychology and physiology.

11. Practice, Practice & More Practice. Practice being happy now. Being happy is an empowering state of mind. Happiness is a skill. Like all skills, the more you practice it the better you get. Make happiness a habit by practicing it all the time. Happiness is like a muscle, if you don't use it you'll lose it. Practice being friendly and being non-judgmental. Practice being forgiving, being kind, being complimentary, being a giving person, and practice letting go.

12. Do Something For Someone Else. Pay someone a compliment, smile, bring someone a plant. A woman I know has been dealing with the loss of her husband's death. I met her carrying a plant with a beautiful flower. She said that she was on her way to give it to someone. I knew right there and then that she was on her way to recovering. I recognized she was coping better with the loss of her husband, because she was thinking and doing something for someone else. That is a big turning point for most people.

13. Your Attitude Creates Your Altitude. The better your attitude, the higher your level of well being and happiness will be. You are responsible for your attitude. Don't use other people, events or anything else as an excuse for having a poor attitude, don't blame others. A "poor me" attitude will keep you poor. A "why me" attitude will create more things for you to feel awful about. If your are having a "self pity" party, you will find that you are the only one there and it's not much fun.

14. Use These Power Tools. These 15 items are power tools from the power of being happy. If you don't use them, you will suffer and hurt yourself and become unhappy. These tools will work if you use them. Put them to work for yourself right now. You can now face any kind of problem that comes into your life. You may not like the problem, but with these power tools, you can work on any problem and turn it into something useful in your life.

15. Learn The Benefits Of Happiness. Live ten years longer, reduce anger, have less stress, experience emotional competence, create inner peace, have better focus, better patience and self control, enhanced relationships, access greater intelligence, utilize wisdom, and enjoy your life while enriching others with your happiness. Learn to use happiness to make a positive difference in your life and in the life of others.

BE HAPPY ZONE by Lionel Ketchian.

Life is complicated, happiness is simple! LIVE RICHLY...PRACTICE HAPPINESS!
Everything we do in life is for the purpose of obtaining happiness! Happiness Empowerment to You! Reminding you to make the "Happiness Decision." Think Smart, Look Smart, Be Smart...Be Happy! Sharing Love, Peace and Happiness with you, Lionel Ketchian

Happ-E-Quote :) The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. From the book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Happ-E-Mail :) Soulsong #465 - What About Ethics and Morality? (One paragraph from the reading.) I'm changing my habits of thought in my own self-interest, but everyone with whom I interact stands to benefit. As I increasingly choose better-feeling thoughts, I'll be a better partner, parent, neighbor, and citizen. As I practice choosing happier thoughts, I'll become the happy person I've always known I could be, and I'll begin to draw countless happy situations to me via Law of Attraction. And joyful good things will spill over to others, everywhere I go. Click to hear:

Williams does a wonderful job on giving us daily empowering thoughts to live our lives. Here is one for you and . You can read them and also hear Karen read them to you in her positive loving voice.

Happ-E-Quote :) "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William James

Happ-E-Quote :) "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." -Thich Nhat Hanh

Happ-E-Quote :) "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman

Happ-E-Poem :) This wonderful poem sent us from our friend David Lazar.

Happiness
Connection to spirit
Connection to one another
Connection to love and peace
Connection to the highest values.

Happ-E-News :) Articles about our Happiness Clubs!

Happ-E-News :) Some excellent articles on happiness!

CLUB HAPPINESS, E-CLUB :)

FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)

Our next Happiness Club meeting will include a presentation called: "How I Got Involved with Happiness!" by Dr. Mark K. Setton. Dr. Setton is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Chairman of the Martial Arts Studies Program at the University of Bridgeport. Dr. Setton will speak about the importance of happiness.

MENTORS HAPPINESS CLUB :) Meeting: Monday, May 7, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Fairfield Public Library in the conference room. This meeting is for Happiness Club facilitators in CT.

Maximize Your Happiness Seminars :)

Date :) May 15th, from & June 20th (2 more meetings to be announced)
Time :) 6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Place :) At the Fairfield Public Library Rotary Room
Address :) 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824

WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT SMILING SINGLE SENIORS HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Our next Happiness Club meeting will be a presentation by C.J. Golden the author of the book:

The Tao Of The Defiant Woman. C.J. wrote this book to celebrate the transitions that we all (men, too) face as we go through our lives. This book was done as a self-help project to help her accept this thing we call aging - and in the process changed C.J.'s attitude towards life (and her gray hair and wrinkles).

Date :) Thursday, May 31, 2007
Time :) 6:30- 8:00 P.M.
Place :) The Westport Senior Center

Address :) 21 Imperial Ave. Westport CT 06880.

Admission is free and the meetings are for people single and over 50 years old. Meet some wonderful people using happiness in their lives. Stay happy and healthy - get well connected. Stacy Enyeart is the group facilitator. Future meetings will be held on Thursday, May 31, Thursday, June 28, Thursday, July 26, 2007.

MADISON CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Our next Happiness Club meeting is:

STAMFORD,CONNECTICUT TEEN HAPPY CLUB :)
Open to all high school students. Meetings are held twice a month on Saturdays from 11:00 - 12:30 P.M. At the Daniel and Grace Tully & Family Health Center, 32 Strawberry Hill Court, Stamford, Connecticut 06902.

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Our next meeting will be a presentation followed by discussion and socializing. We look forward to seeing you there! It could change your life. We now have nearly thirty members signed up for the Wilmington Happiness Club! I encourage you all to make your vision of this group a reality. Be proactive! Attend meetings and share your thoughts, ideas, and creativity.

Date :) Friday, May 25, 2007

Time :) 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Place :) The Happiness Institute

Address :) 6336 Oleander Drive Suite #4, Wilmington NC 28403.
Coffee, tea, water, and light snacks are provided.

VIRTUAL HAPPINESS CLUB :) For more information:

Join Rabbi Zelig Pliskin from Jerusalem, Israel at your home, on your phone, on the new VIRTUAL HAPPINESS CLUB with Dr. Cynthia Barnett. You can listen and talk with a great happiness teacher each month.

Date: Monday, May 7, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 PM, EST in the USA.
Phone number: (712) 775-7000
Your Access Code is: 122856#.

The Virtual Happiness Club is free, just your normal long distance charges apply. The first 90 callers may participate. The Virtual Happiness Club meets the first Monday of each month from 7:00 - 8:00. PM, EST in the USA. Our guest for the next Virtual Happiness Club meeting will be pending his schedule.

New - Virtual Happiness Club - For more information:

New - Club Happiness, an E-Club - For more information:

Happ-E-Quote :) "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Happiness is an inner state of well being. A state that enables you to profit from your highest thoughts, intelligence, wisdom, awareness, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values.
Happiness is one of the most important things in your life. Don't give away your power by being unhappy! Practice "Premeditated Happiness," because happiness is an issue of power. We give our power to others for many reasons. We mistakenly think that doing this will make us happy. The truth is that we have given others power over ourselves. We can now consciously reclaim our power and experience happiness. Happiness does wonders for your soul. Now is the time to learn to use happiness for dealing with challenges and difficult people so you can empower your life. Reading this newsletter will not just make your life better; it will make the world a better place...because you have decided to be happy!

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"Unhappiness is a form of suffering." Eckhart Tolle. "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda

If you're not happy by now, it's time to have a talk with yourself.

Make the Happiness Decision Now! THAT'S ALL FOLKS...NOW BE HAPPY!
© Copyright 2007, Lionel R. Ketchian, all rights reserved.