I'm happier now... I got rid of that gloomy feeling I had in my heart, the emptiness...
When I was in that state where I was covered with all those ugly feelings, I talked to some friends.. and they're like "If you want to be happy, you should choose to be happy and be happy. Its a matter of choice. You're unhappy because you chose to be unhappy."
Somehow they're right but its not like I don't want to be happy, of course I want to be happy. But still it doesn't make any difference although I tried to be happy.
If you're feeling what I felt, let me share my happy recipe.
Ingredients:
Miracles
Opportunities
Blessings
Faith
Gratefulness
Methods:
1. Miracles
Believe that everything is a miracle. You're here on this Earth, is a miracle. Your abilities/talents are all miracles. Miracles that God has given to you. Waking up every morning (or afternoon for some of you) is a miracle.
2. Opportunities
Each time something (anything) happened, is an opportunity. Not just big things like when you're challenged to do something big. But every little things can possibly have big impacts. Problems are also opportunities in life (see my previous blog post). Miracles contain opportunities. When you wake up each morning, its a new opportunity for you.
3. Blessings
Some people didn't realise how much they're blessed! Miracles and opportunities are blessings. It may sounds weird, but this is a fact: the more you bless, the more blessings you get. And it doesn't have to include monetary sometimes. So, bless other people. Offer what you have to help people. Not just money but anything you can do. Like prayers. When you pray for other people, you are blessing them. Or when you give your time for others in need, you're actually blessing them. Being able to bless other people makes me happy cause it determines how blessed I am to be able to bless others. So spread the blessings!
4. Faith
Faith is a power and it a super powerful power. When you fall, have faith! When you have faith in God, you will get not just something big but you'll receive more that what you ever thought, you'll get the impossible. Cause sometimes faith doesn't make any sense which is why the result is more and more and more than the best thing you could ever think in your mind.
"Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." -Matthew 17:20-
Have faith in Jesus and get rid of all your disappointments. Don't let your disappointment eat your faith cause disappointment will block your way to great things (faith). Sometimes you feel empty and sad and gloomy and whatsoever, because you get disappointed with what you don't get within your expectations.
5. Grateful
Being grateful is the happiest thing. This is the key point to happiness is gratefulness. Be grateful for each miracles, opportunities, blessing and have faith in the Lord. Be grateful for little things cause that will make you happy.
Now, its easier for me to be happy. Little things make me happy. Because now, I often express my gratitude by saying "thank you Jesus".
When I found the things I look for at home before I felt the house (keys, mobile phone, jacket, socks, etc) I say "thank you Jesus". When I was at the office toilet and realised that there is no toilet paper then found a roll of toilet paper behind me, I feel grateful and say "thank you Jesus". When I walked to the office yesterday, two people smiled and said "good morning", I feel grateful and say "thank you Jesus" and pray so that God bless them. Being grateful actually makes me happier in life.
Honestly before I was so stressed because I haven't got any proper job and I've been applying here and there but all I get is rejections. And now, I'm still looking for a job and I'm stuck being a receptionist when what I want is a marketing job. But I feel grateful cause at least I got an income and I have faith that God has prepared an awesome job for me. So each morning when miracles started happening, I take the opportunities I get to apply for jobs (spare time I got at the office) and pray with faith. And so instead of stressing out, I just feel happy.
Anyway, this is another long post. Hope you're blessed with this.
Ciao xx
Friday 31 August 2012
Wednesday 22 August 2012
The Secret to Success in Life
You see.. Im not a good blogger. I don't often update this blog.
Anyway...
I'm a "thinker".. as in I think a lot. Sometimes what I thought of is not really relevant. I like to day dream and I think nothing is impossible, there's always a possibility (even the smallest possibility can happen)... Sometimes, I think about my own life. Not everyone knows my story, even if they do, they will never know how I feel cause we're all different. What I've been through is not as simple as it looks nor as easy as what people can see.
Then, a question popped up in my head "why do I have to face never ending problems?". That question has been in my mind for so long. Whenever I finished dealing with a problem, another problem arises and sometimes I have to face few different problems all at one.
I know I'm not the only person who deals with problems. Everyone has their own problems and I can't judge other people by saying "she/he is so lucky. she/he is living a good happy life". Some... umm correction: A LOT of people (I believe) are facing greater problems compare to what I'm facing or have faced. So, I can call myself lucky. But then, facing all this is painful. It hurts so much... I feel broken.
I've been searching here and there for an answer to the big question in my life (Why do I have to face so many problems?). I'm aware that I'm not perfect. Nobody is... But I want a good problem-free life. I want to be happy.
ok.. now... enough with all the problems... moving on.. lets get to the exciting part...
THE SOLUTIONS
(I pray to God to give me the ability to bless people through this. To reach the lost ones. Let this be God speaking through me. I'm nothing but I want God to use me. Amin.)
1. Path to Success
The best way to learn is to experience. The more problems you face, the more experience. The more experience, the wiser you are. The wiser you are, the more successful you will be (in life). FYI success doesn't mean that you're rich or have everything you want in this world. Success is more of your purpose in life. It can mean happiness, or being influential to others, etc.
Problems -> Experience -> Wisdom -> Success
If you have 10 problems, you have 10 experience, 10 wisdoms and then 10 success stories. But if you have 100 problems, you have 100 experience and 100 wisdoms, then 100 success stories.
So be grateful when you have to face a lot of problems. That means you are created to be very successful in your life. However, don't face it and then throw it. You have to learn and take ACTION from what you have learned.
2. Success Breaker
Giving up is what a lot of people do when one feel like he/she have had enough. God will NEVER give you problems that you cannot face. He knows you better than you know yourself. He chose each one of us even before the world was created. He knows everything, He has planned everything!
When you give up, you are actually cutting "the path to success". In other words, you are throwing away your own success. Don't you think its a waste?! Cause you are actually destined to be big and successful and without you realising, you are you own barrier to success. Instead of climbing up, sometimes people choose to fall. By giving up (in the process), you are throwing away what was planned for you. Some of you may think "how do you know what God has planned for me? This is bullish*t! You don't even know me (that well). You don't know everything or anything!". Believe me, I know nothing about you. But I know my Father and how much He loves his children (us). Look up John 3:16.
Our Father loves each one of us so much. Love is very powerful! Love is unconditional and selfless. God's love is perfect. Which is why I strongly believe that success is ALREADY given/planned by Him for each one of us. So if you're wondering "why am I not successful now?", the answer to that is: you, yourself. You are the reason of your unsuccessful life. You chose to not take that success that God has given to you and the best success breaker in life is your decision to give up.
Use your problem to push you up to your success, don't let your problems use you and drag you down to some place where you're not meant be in (which is where you feel like you're lost and empty). You are not made to be "low" or "small"! You are made to fly mighty like an eagle, you are made to be BIG, successful, to be a head (not tail). A problem is an opportunity. Be grateful for each problems you have.
3. The ULTIMATE Solution
Last night... Just last night... 15 hours ago... I found the root of all my problems I've had in life. Just one mistake. One that affects everything in my life. One that I ignored.
and that mistake is: Lack of Intimacy with God.
When you are intimate with your Creator. You will be given so much, far greater that what you could ever imagine. You would be given, not just wisdom but also great crazy miracles and loads of happiness, even if you are in the darkest place in this world. When you're intimate with Him, you will hear His voice. Well, He won't say it human to human way by talking right in front of your face but you will hear his voice in any form of communication He chose, to communicate with you. When God say it right to you, you don't even need human wisdom. True wisdom is NOT choosing what is right in life. True wisdom is doing what God wants you to do and stay faithful to Him. Your mind is so small but your God is so big. Sometimes God asks you to do something that doesn't make any sense to you at all. But things that doesn't make any sense are great things, and will produce a far greater results than things that actually make sense.
The key to everything is God. Be intimate, seek Him and you will hear His voice. Whatever God has planned is the best for you. Your road to your purpose might be rocky but remember that He loves you, He will NEVER leave you nor forsake you. And the result is more than just worth it.
May you have a blessed day!
*Credit goes to Lysia Jessica*
Anyway...
I'm a "thinker".. as in I think a lot. Sometimes what I thought of is not really relevant. I like to day dream and I think nothing is impossible, there's always a possibility (even the smallest possibility can happen)... Sometimes, I think about my own life. Not everyone knows my story, even if they do, they will never know how I feel cause we're all different. What I've been through is not as simple as it looks nor as easy as what people can see.
Then, a question popped up in my head "why do I have to face never ending problems?". That question has been in my mind for so long. Whenever I finished dealing with a problem, another problem arises and sometimes I have to face few different problems all at one.
I know I'm not the only person who deals with problems. Everyone has their own problems and I can't judge other people by saying "she/he is so lucky. she/he is living a good happy life". Some... umm correction: A LOT of people (I believe) are facing greater problems compare to what I'm facing or have faced. So, I can call myself lucky. But then, facing all this is painful. It hurts so much... I feel broken.
I've been searching here and there for an answer to the big question in my life (Why do I have to face so many problems?). I'm aware that I'm not perfect. Nobody is... But I want a good problem-free life. I want to be happy.
ok.. now... enough with all the problems... moving on.. lets get to the exciting part...
THE SOLUTIONS
(I pray to God to give me the ability to bless people through this. To reach the lost ones. Let this be God speaking through me. I'm nothing but I want God to use me. Amin.)
1. Path to Success
The best way to learn is to experience. The more problems you face, the more experience. The more experience, the wiser you are. The wiser you are, the more successful you will be (in life). FYI success doesn't mean that you're rich or have everything you want in this world. Success is more of your purpose in life. It can mean happiness, or being influential to others, etc.
Problems -> Experience -> Wisdom -> Success
If you have 10 problems, you have 10 experience, 10 wisdoms and then 10 success stories. But if you have 100 problems, you have 100 experience and 100 wisdoms, then 100 success stories.
So be grateful when you have to face a lot of problems. That means you are created to be very successful in your life. However, don't face it and then throw it. You have to learn and take ACTION from what you have learned.
2. Success Breaker
Giving up is what a lot of people do when one feel like he/she have had enough. God will NEVER give you problems that you cannot face. He knows you better than you know yourself. He chose each one of us even before the world was created. He knows everything, He has planned everything!
When you give up, you are actually cutting "the path to success". In other words, you are throwing away your own success. Don't you think its a waste?! Cause you are actually destined to be big and successful and without you realising, you are you own barrier to success. Instead of climbing up, sometimes people choose to fall. By giving up (in the process), you are throwing away what was planned for you. Some of you may think "how do you know what God has planned for me? This is bullish*t! You don't even know me (that well). You don't know everything or anything!". Believe me, I know nothing about you. But I know my Father and how much He loves his children (us). Look up John 3:16.
Our Father loves each one of us so much. Love is very powerful! Love is unconditional and selfless. God's love is perfect. Which is why I strongly believe that success is ALREADY given/planned by Him for each one of us. So if you're wondering "why am I not successful now?", the answer to that is: you, yourself. You are the reason of your unsuccessful life. You chose to not take that success that God has given to you and the best success breaker in life is your decision to give up.
Use your problem to push you up to your success, don't let your problems use you and drag you down to some place where you're not meant be in (which is where you feel like you're lost and empty). You are not made to be "low" or "small"! You are made to fly mighty like an eagle, you are made to be BIG, successful, to be a head (not tail). A problem is an opportunity. Be grateful for each problems you have.
3. The ULTIMATE Solution
Last night... Just last night... 15 hours ago... I found the root of all my problems I've had in life. Just one mistake. One that affects everything in my life. One that I ignored.
and that mistake is: Lack of Intimacy with God.
When you are intimate with your Creator. You will be given so much, far greater that what you could ever imagine. You would be given, not just wisdom but also great crazy miracles and loads of happiness, even if you are in the darkest place in this world. When you're intimate with Him, you will hear His voice. Well, He won't say it human to human way by talking right in front of your face but you will hear his voice in any form of communication He chose, to communicate with you. When God say it right to you, you don't even need human wisdom. True wisdom is NOT choosing what is right in life. True wisdom is doing what God wants you to do and stay faithful to Him. Your mind is so small but your God is so big. Sometimes God asks you to do something that doesn't make any sense to you at all. But things that doesn't make any sense are great things, and will produce a far greater results than things that actually make sense.
The key to everything is God. Be intimate, seek Him and you will hear His voice. Whatever God has planned is the best for you. Your road to your purpose might be rocky but remember that He loves you, He will NEVER leave you nor forsake you. And the result is more than just worth it.
May you have a blessed day!
*Credit goes to Lysia Jessica*
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