happiness Archives - Randy Gage

How You Grow…

Many people believe suffering is the best teacher. If this were true, the entire world would be healthy, happy, and prosperous because we all suffer greatly. No matter how much you prepare, work on yourself, and strive to avoid suffering, you’re going to get your fair (or unfair) share. We’re all going to lose loved ones, experience natural disasters, and receive bad medical diagnoses.

Make Your Moments Count

Your life is made up of time blocks. You don’t end up broke and lonely, or prosperous and loved…by accident. Those outcomes are determined, by how you spend your years, which are determined by how you spend your weeks, which are determined by how you spend your days, which are determined by how you spend your moments.

Take Charge of Your Life

Thank God it’s Monday! Let’s get after it…

F*ck Poverty!!!

Reverend Charles Fillmore shocked the religious community of his day when he stated it is a sin to be poor. If this is your first time hearing it, the statement might still shock you. But if we explore the true definition of sin, you will have a better understanding of why Fillmore made that declaration.

Protect Your Mental Harmony

Think about it. It really doesn’t matter if you are born on the right side of the tracks, attend the finest universities, and inherit a hundred million dollars: If you don’t have mental harmony a prosperous life will be out of reach for you. Because the benefits of being born in an advantageous environment, gaining valuable knowledge, and possessing great wealth can all be neutralized – if you lack the peace, clarity, and concentration that comes from possessing mental harmony.

Amnesty Day

Sometimes you might be tempted to start your week beating yourself up over the things you didn’t accomplish the week before. That doesn't serve you. There are enough people who are happy to criticize you; don’t add yourself to the list. Forgiveness is a beautiful thing.

Getting to Self-Mastery

Today let’s look at the concept of self-mastery. The simple definition of this is self-control, but I believe there is a lot more to the concept because self-mastery is the ultimate superpower. You don’t just control yourself; you challenge yourself, meet that challenge, and become a better person because of it.

You Didn’t Get Here by Accident

Once an urban myth takes hold, it never seems to die. For instance, the one that says an undercover agent has to admit that they are police officers if you ask them outright. (I guess the people who believe this have never seen an episode of The Wire or Miami Vice.) So it was no surprise that as I negotiated a deal with a drug dealer for the sixth time, for the sixth time he asked me if I was an undercover police officer. After assuring him I wasn’t, he produced an 8-ball of crystal meth, which I accepted and replaced with the cash.

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