Brian Tracy (speaker) presents a short YouTube talk listing seven "ingredients" for a happy life: 1) peace of mind, 2) health and energy, 3) loving relationships, 4) financial freedom, 5) setting worthy goals and ideals, 6) self-knowledge and self-awareness, and 7) personal fulfillment. He emphasizes positive thinking, defining success in these terms to create clear targets, and frames self-improvement as the path from envisioning an ideal life to realizing personal fulfillment. The video ends with a brief promotional sign-off (subscribe, visit briantracy.com).
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Lets talk now about the seven ingredients for a happy life. Now, anything that you could ever want more of or any factor that you would consider important to your happiness and achieving a happy life can be placed in one of seven categories of success. These seven ingredients to a happy life are considered with everything ever written or discovered on happiness and self improvement. They characterize the life and accomplishments of all high performing men and women. They included everything that you could ever want. So your ideal life is a blending of these seven ingredients in a happy life in exactly the combination that makes you the happiest at any particular moment. By defining your success and happiness in terms of one or more of these seven ingredients, you create a clear target to aim at. You engage in positive thinking. You can then measure how well you're doing. You can identify areas where you need to make changes if you want self improvement in your life. So let's begin. The first of these seven ingredients to a happy life and easily the most important is peace of mind. It's the highest human good. Without it, nothing else has much value. Peace of mind and positive thinking is essential for the optimal performance and happy life of all human groupings. From your relationships with your friends and family to the business and organizations in which you work. The second ingredient is health and energy. Just as peace of mind is your normal and natural mental state, health and energy is your normal and natural physical state. The third ingredient of happiness is loving relationships. These are relationships with people you love and care about and the people who love and care about you. They're the real measure of how you're doing as a human being. Happiness or unhappiness in life comes largely from your relationships with others. And it's your relationships with others that make you truly human. The fourth ingredient of happiness is financial freedom. To be financially free means that you have enough money so that you don't worry about money continually as most people do. Achieving your own financial freedom is one of the most important goals and responsibilities of your life. It's far too important to be left to chance. The fifth ingredient of a happy life is setting worthy goals and ideals. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need positive thinking to get there. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something and that you're somehow making a valuable contribution to your world. The sixth ingredient to success in a happy life is self knowledge and self awareness. Throughout all of history, self knowledge has gone hand in hand with inner happiness and positive thinking and outer achievement. To perform at your best, you need to know who you are inside and why you think and feel the way you do. You need to be aware of who you are and the seventh ingredient is a sense of personal fulfillment. This is the feeling that you are becoming everything that you're capable of becoming, that you're moving towards something in life that's important. This feeling is the realization of your full potential as a human being. So your happy life begins with self improvement and ends with a sense of personal fulfillment that you are accomplishing all that you're capable of accomplishing. So decide what is right for you before you decide what is possible. Create your ideal life in every detail. Don't be concerned about the process of getting from where you are to where you want to go. For now, just focus on positive thinking and creating a vision of your perfect future. Thanks for watching my video. Make make sure to subscribe and tell a friend about it. For exclusive content on sales training and leadership and business and personal success, Visit me@briantracy.com and while you're there, sign up for my newsletter. Until next time, make it a great day.
