Pierre Eau Business Strategy

Take a moment to think about your life. Look at it from all angles. Step away for a bit and check in on yourself. Pay attention to how you see your life. Are you satisfied or dissatisfied?

Imagine as you watch yourself that you have a clipboard with a check list. This check list is meant to be a self evaluation. You scan the list of questions.

I am happy with who I am? — Are my relationships the way I would like? — Which things work or don’t work well? — Am I having a good day or a bad one? — How often to I feel frustrated? — What makes me scared? — What makes me happy?

You try to answer the questions thoughtfully. You may think of the past or the present. You may think of the future you’d like to have. You could perhaps become grateful for what already do.

At this very moment the thoughts you are having and the way you evaluate your life is a perception. It is a specific point of view that only you have. You can be certain that no one else will see the world exactly the same way as you do.

Your perceptions are affected by all the events in your life. The past has a tremendous impact on what your life is right now. Who you are or think you are depends on those experiences as well.

You are always defining every moment. You are sorting each one as you create a memory of it. It is interesting that your evaluation process automatically routes an experience into the “good” box or the “bad” one. You commit to this filtering process all day long. For example: You get promoted at work = good. You are cut off in traffic = bad.

You create a set of predefined filters throughout your life. Every moment becomes subject to them. You will place each moment in one category or the other.

Your filters communicate to you the inherent value of an occurring moment. Whatever the value it has will affect your feelings about it. You will experience everything that happens in your life whether it’s career, relationships, finances or leisure in a particular way. This defined viewpoint is your perception.

Everyday this evaluation process will create the positive or negative perceptions you have. Does all of this mean you are an automated robot that only processes data? No.

With your perception comes the ability to make “free will” choices. Those choices then help to create your reality.

Have you ever been with someone in the same event and have them describe it differently than you would? How can entirely different people experience the same exact situation but have two different stories? The answer is that every single person has a unique perception. This means that all versions or perceptions of events are true. If everyone was aware of that fact, there would be a lot less arguments. To create a more positive reality, be conscious of your perception of things. Is it good or bad? Mastering an awareness about your perceptions can help you change your quality of life.

Once you know your perceptions, you have the power to change you reality. Remember just because a perception begins negative, YOU can change it.

You can be the magician in your life. You can wave a thought and transform a dark and cloudy day to one filled with brilliant sunshine! Your perception is a decision you make between past events and what is truly going on in the moment. There are always different ways to look at something, don’t limit yourself to the past.

Let your perception become flexible! As you do, you will see a positive shift in the reality you create each and every day.

YOU have all the power!

Life isn’t the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives.

And then thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere – “How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life?” Then I pause and observed for awhile, I figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called “self”.

So, how does one become genuinely happy?

The first step is to love yourself. My theology professor once said that “loving means accepting”. To love oneself means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve your repertoire to recover from our mistakes.

Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all the things you now have, truly, you know the answer to the question, “how to be genuinely happy.”

When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something else, and to something else. But if you keep questioning life lit it has never done you any good, you will never be able to find genuine happiness.

I believe that life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in a person’s life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But this should not hinder us from becoming happy.

How to be genuinely happy in spite all these? I tell you, every time you exert effort to improve the quality of life and your being, whether it is cleaning up your room, helping a friend, taking care of your sick dog, fail on board exams and trying again, life gives you equivalent points for that.

Imagine life as a big score board like those which are used in the NFLs. Every time you take a step forward, you make scoring points. Wouldn’t it be nice to look at that board at the end of each game and think to yourself “Whew! I got a point today. I’m glad I gave it a shot.”, instead of looking at it all blank and murmur “Geez, I didn’t even hit a score today. I wish I had the guts to try out. We could have won!” and then walk away.

Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the latest Porshe car, million dollar mansion nor getting the employee of the year award, or beating the sales quota. Most of the time, the most sought after prizes in life doesn’t always go to the fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best.

So, how do you become genuinely happy?

Every one has his own definition of “happiness”. Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success.

So, really now, how do we become genuinely happy?

Simple. You don’t have to have the best things in this world. Its about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self “Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you carry with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may spread out like a brush fire. You possess a willingness to stand up again and try – that will make you a genuinely happy person.

When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass the first step in the project “how to become genuinely happy”. For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love ten folds back.

Again, throw me that same question – “how to become genuinely happy?”. I’ll refer you to a friend of mine who strongly quoted – “Most of us know that laughter is the best medicine to life’s aches and pain. But most of us don’t know that the best kind of laughter is laughter over self. Because then you don’t just become happy, you become free.