Happ-E-Newsletter for March 1, 2008
Welcome My Dear Friend!
As Thomas Jefferson said, "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
I am happy to announce the start of another new Happiness Club called the: NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB.
Allison Aboud Holzer, CPCC, MAT, MFA is the group facilitator for the brand new Happiness Club. Our first meeting will be a presentation called: 15 IMPORTANT THINGS FOR YOUR HAPPINESS! by Lionel Ketchian. Lionel will speak about the value, importance and simplicity of happiness. Bring your questions about happiness to the meeting with you and find some real answers!Date :)
Join our FIRST meeting! Monday, March 24, 2008.Time :)
6:00 - 7:30 PM.Place :)
New Haven Public Library, Main Community Room, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CTParking: Free Public Parking is available at Yale Lot 51 (Temple Street between Wall Street and Elm Street, approximately ˝ block from Library) after 4 PM on Weekdays.
The club welcomes all members of the New Haven community, but specifically targets the student population at the local universities: Yale, Albertus Magnus and Southern CT. The main goal of the New Haven Happiness Club is to foster discussion on happiness among the student population and local community. For more information about the New Haven Happiness Club, contact Allison at: or
allisonaboud@gmail.com phone: 203.946.8130. Also check out:newhavenhappiness@gmail.com and cafepress.com/happynewhavenHAPPINESS IS INTENTIONAL
Happiness happens when you intend it to happen. Happiness is an intention, you create happiness by causing it to happen within your experience. For years I have been teaching and explaining how to find happiness and use it for your own benefit and the benefit of others. Let me share my experience of happiness and the meaning and purpose it has given me in my life with you.
I have lived with happiness for over 17 years and the benefits to me personally have been profound. I have recently begun to be aware of the fact that living with happiness has also revealed some life long lessons for me. I have been feeling more connected to everyone I meet and with people I have any kind of communication with. I have felt a sense of family.
We live in a wonderful community here in Fairfield, Connecticut. For me the community is a sense of an extended family. This is not because I want or need any more family, it is because that is the feeling I have about the people I encounter. When I allow myself to express my feelings about a greater feeling of family, I realize that my life has expanded in an infinite dimension. I care about people and I regard them as brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and close relatives in our one big beautiful human family.
I thought I would express the gratitude I have for the people in my life, which includes many of you. As I find more people benefiting from being happy, I enlarge my own happiness. Your happiness becomes my happiness. Each encounter has been so positive that it adds to my experience of life. Another benefit I have discovered to being happy is the interconnectedness I have found in my happiness relationships, no matter how brief the communication. All connections, even a simple e-mail, are real and lasting ones that have enduring substance when you feel this way.
I have felt a wonderful feeling of finding my purpose in life. That purpose is basically to serve others. Not to serve others what they want, but to serve them what I can serve them best. We can only give away what we have. Some of us have money and are generous and benefit others with our donations. All of us have something we are good at and it is usually something we love. You can always give some of what you love or have to others. What you love, you have in abundance. The real reason for serving others is that when you give part of yourself you gain so much more of yourself. You gain the freedom and exhilaration from the meaning and purpose you bring into your life.
Just to have a small positive affect in someone's life has been a source of tremendous fulfillment and meaning. In showing others ways to happiness and enriching their lives, I have found authentic purpose and thereby real meaning in my life. I have felt a real sense of purpose in life that my feelings of family have given me. This may not make a lot of sense to some people. I am writing this for those who understand the heart of this matter. This is about living in a world of inner peace and unconditional love and happiness, whose rewards are in the present moment for the individual who is serving others. If you have not served others with an open happy heart, it would be impossible to understand the feelings I am expressing to you now.
I have found that individuals are good, especially as they become happy. If you seek to do good and even if you do good in your life, you will not be able to sustain it without being happy. At the very least you will not enjoy it or benefit from it yourself. Let me make a bold and outrageous statement for you. Begin thinking of the world as your family. Look at people with the thought that you are connected to them in some way. They have dreams like you, feel like you and want to be happy just like you do. If you do this you will create a changed world to live in for yourself that will support you.
Happiness is intentional and it serves us best when we use it to serve others. Share a genuine smile and you bestow an undeniable gift to others. Share some of your time, a kind word, provide a gentle thought or express sincere praise and you have made a contribution in someone's life that may be more meaningful and important to them then you will ever know.
To quote the great words of Albert Schweitzer, "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
BE HAPPY ZONE
by Lionel Ketchian. Published in the Fairfield Citizen-News on February 12, 2008Happ-E-Quote :)
"Today the planet is the only proper "in group." Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy." - Joseph CampbellHappy-Mail :)
When I think of the three outreaches that I most resonate with, it's your happiness work, Abraham-Hicks, and Joel Osteen. I mention the three of you on the home page of my regular site, Click here: The Astonishing Power of Happiness by Karen Williams The world is benefited by you in a tremendous way! Blessings, Karen Williams www.karenwilliams.netKaren has a wonderful blog as well. I invite you to visit Karen's blog at,
www.abrahamfun.com. You can subscribe (on the left hand side, under the calendar) to receive each new entry as it is posted, or you can simply visit periodically and leave a comment or two if you wish.Happ-E-Quote :)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of IndependenceHappy-Mail :)
Please watch the following video clip. It is a beautiful story of Johnny, the grocery store bagger. It is very short, but it will remind you of why and how we make an impact in what we do. You may even want to share it with others & I hope it will make their day, too! Click here: The Simple Truths of Service Movie - From Charles H. Miller CPBA CPVA, The Coaching Partnership, LLC www.thecoachingpartnership.comHapp-E-Quote :)
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo EmersonHappy-Mail :)
From Tamara Ketchian. Check out this screen cleaner, it will make you happy! http://theglobalbible.com/temp/screenclean.swfHapp-E-Poem :)
A poem by David LazarHappy-Book :)
Conversations With Yourself, by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin. Available at: Available at www.Artscroll.com Rabbi Pliskin is A Self Talk Coach and Happiness Teacher.We Control our Response.
To a great extent, we create the world in which we live. While many events are beyond our control and we are unable to have a direct influence on them, to a large degree we still have the ability to control our attitudes towards any given situation. Hence, the emotional consequences of events is largely up to us. It is unrealistic to expect perfect control, but anyone who works calmly and persistently on his thoughts will be able to improve. From Rabbi Pliskin's book: Gateway to Happiness, p.48-9, available at: http://www.eichlers.com or 1-888-EICHLERS See more Daily Lifts on "attitude"Happ-E-Quote :)
"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." - Stephen R. CoveyHapp-E-Free Seminar :)
LIFE IS WAITING- ARE YOU READY? Attend a FREE Monthly Telephone Seminar with Dr. Cynthia BarnettHappy-Mail :)
I read this tonight. Click here: Feeling down? Get happy, dammit! - Behavior- msnbc.com I thought you might find it interesting. Keep on waving - Michael Smith To sign up for my stories go to: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101828445578&p=oi To read more of my stories, go to http://subs.zinester.com/86758/Happ-E-Note :)
On March 18, at 8:00 PM in Connecticut you can watch Dr. Deepak Chopra present his show called: The happiness Prescription on CPTV. Deepak Chopra, M.D., returns to CPTV with motivational program that offers insight into living a more meaningful and joyous life. Combining ancient wisdom with modern-day research on how happiness relates to health and well-being, Chopra reveals 10 keys to a happy and fulfilling life that anyone of any religious or spiritual leaning can follow.Happ-E-News :)
Recent happiness articles and items of interest!Happ-E-Quote :)
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man on the course of his life." - Benjamin Franklin
THE HAPPINESS SHOW ON TV :) "The Happiness Show," is on every Monday 9:30 - 10:00 PM. Co-hosts are Lionel Ketchian and George Ortega. Cablevision of Connecticut broadcasts the TV show on channel 77. Airs in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Milford, Orange, Stratford & Woodbridge. View over 130 shows in streaming media and MPEG on your computer anytime at: www.happinessclub.com
CLUB HAPPINESS, E-CLUB :) Everybody should join this club, try it, you'll love it!!!
We have created an online e-mail community for you to talk about and share happiness with people around the world. To join, just send an e-mail to: clubhappiness-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you will be notified. Or join here: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/clubhappiness/ Club Happiness is run by our good friends David Ambrose, living in Calgary, Canada and Iolanda who lives in Australia. For more information: http://happinessclub.blogspot.com/2007/04/club-happiness-e-club.html#links">Happiness
VIRTUAL HAPPINESS CLUB :) Dr. Cynthia Barnett will be our next guest on the Virtual Happiness Club Interview. Dr. Cynthia has been a valuable and empowering vacillator to many of our Happiness Clubs. She has run the Happy Teen Club in Stamford, Ct. She is the founder of the Virtual Happiness Club. One of Dr. Cynthia's messages to people is Re-Fire, Don't Retire. Learn how to Re-invent, Re-vitalize, Re-charge Your Life. Dr. Cynthia is a Certified Retirement Lifestyles Coach and the author of Stop Singing the Blues and her new book: Prime Time Makeover: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life.
"Dr. Cynthia’s amazing ability to be extremely clear, articulate in simple language makes Prime time Makeover not only an amazing roadmap for happiness and success, but a pure joy to read." - Lionel Ketchian Dr. Cynthia Barnett's websites; www.doctorcynthiabarnett.com, www.primetimemakeover.com,
www.askdrcynthia.com
Date:
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 (Please note: change of date)FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Date :)
Thursday, March 27, 2008
FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT SENIORS HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Our next meeting will be a presentation that will make you happier! We will be talking about Happiness and Religion. Tony spent a few minutes at the beach just being thankful and he says: "Happiness brings joy. Joy brings you closer to God." Join us for a discussion closer to the things you value.
Date :) Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time :) 12:30 - 2:00 P.M.
Place :) The Fairfield Senior Center, 100 Mona Terrace, Fairfield, CT 06824
The group facilitators are: Tony Derbyshire and Denise Stein, MS, LPC. Tony's phone: 203-904-3273 e-mail:
WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT SMILING SINGLE SENIORS HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Date :)
Thursday, March 27, 2008.
GREENWICH CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)
If you are interested in attending these meetings you should send an e-mail to Senia Maymin at:
Date :)
To be announcedTime :)
7:00 - 9:00 P.M.Date :)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT HAPPINESS CLUB :)
Our first meeting will be a presentation called:
15 IMPORTANT THINGS FOR YOUR HAPPINESS! by Lionel Ketchian. Lionel will speak about the value, importance and simplicity of happiness. Bring your questions about happiness to the meeting with you and find some real answers!Date :)
Join our FIRST meeting! Monday, March 24, 2008.Time :)
6:00 - 7:30 PM.Place :)
New Haven Public Library, Main Community Room, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CTParking: Free Public Parking is available at Yale Lot 51 (Temple Street between Wall Street and Elm Street, approximately ˝ block from Library) after 4 PM on Weekdays.
Allison Aboud Holzer, CPCC, MAT, MFA
is the group facilitator for the brand new Happiness Club in New Haven, CT. The club welcomes all members of the New Haven community, but specifically targets the student population at the local universities: Yale, Albertus Magnus and Southern CT. The main goal of the New Haven Happiness Club is to foster discussion on happiness among the student population and local community. For more information about the New Haven Happiness Club, contact Allison at: or allisonaboud@gmail.com phone: 203.946.8130. Also check out:newhavenhappiness@gmail.com and cafepress.com/happynewhavenSTAMFORD CONNECTICUT TEEN HAPPY CLUB :)
Connecticut meetings
Fairfield Happiness Club, Fairfield, CT Fairfield Seniors Happiness Club Fairfield, CT Smiling Single Seniors, Westport, CTMore Locations...
New York Happiness Club, New York, NY San Francisco Happiness Club, San Francisco, CA Diablo Valley Happiness Club, Lafayette, CAAttend from anywhere...
Virtual Happiness Club, by phone
I would like to recommend the Happiness Minute to you. David Ambrose produces this audio message just for you. Click here: Happiness Minute | Happiness in 60 Seconds a Week
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 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 powerful and important things in your life. Now is the time to learn to use happiness for dealing with challenges and difficult people so you can empower 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 and we mistakenly think that doing this will make us happy. The truth is that we have given our power away and giving others power over ourselves. We can now consciously reclaim our power and experience happiness now. Happiness does wonders for your soul. 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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