{"id":140,"date":"2014-01-21T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:53:41","slug":"changing-world-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Changing World View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Each morning, I make it a habit to listen to audiotapes and podcasts each morning and when I\u2019m driving around. It\u2019s a little tip suggested by Brian Tracy in his many books and audiobooks. So y<\/font><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">esterday, I was listening to Tony Robbins\u2019 75 minute long recording. I think I listened to it three times on repeat in the car.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">What is our ultimate goal in life?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">You may list many personal and professional goals \u2013 and anything in between. You may want to find that dream partner. Or body sculpting equal to Abercrombie &amp; Fitch models. Perhaps you want to start your own business and make thousands of dollars per day. But to what end?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Simply to be satisfied and happy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">In the end, <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">to be happy<\/font><\/strong> is our ultimate goal in life.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Sadly, and I concur with Tony, we have been conditioned to only be happy after we have attained something. Once you have your own car. Or maybe your house. Or a high paying job with the corner office. You are happy because you have found or are with the person you love. When something happens, then and only then are you allowed to be happy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">But can you be happy without these things?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Yes. Yes, you may. Yes. Yes, I can. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">I can be happy before I accomplish something. Attaining it boost<font color=\"#000000\">s the joy. But happiness shouldn\u2019t be with terms and conditions.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">In his audiobook, Tony suggests that it is our natural state. From that happy state, we can continue to perform our duties and contributing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Over the course of the tape, I have decided to stop achieving to be happy. Instead, I want to be happily achieving. I achieve and pursue my goals because of the joy of life. Not because the joy in life.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial\">Life is the reward.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning, I make it a habit to listen to audiotapes and podcasts each morning and when I\u2019m driving around. It\u2019s a little tip suggested by Brian Tracy in his many books and audiobooks. So yesterday, I was listening to Tony Robbins\u2019 75 minute long recording. I think I listened to it three times on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aldrictinker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}