10 times to remember you’re magic.

1. You’re late: Snap your fingers and decide you’re getting there on time (regardless of all the signs that suggest otherwise, and regardless of whether that means everyone else will be late). Let your magic do its work.

2. You want to eat, but you’re not hungry: First, snap your fingers and ask yourself what you really want instead. Then, snap your fingers again and decide that you have whatever it is that you want.

1.    If you’re putting off doing a dreary chore, decide how much time it will take you, see the clock in your mind, and see the finished task in your mind. Feel it! Then get to work and get it off your shoulders.

2.    If you’re going to a party or meeting, and you’re worried about people not accepting you, visualize their faces greeting you with big smiles and/or understanding faces. See them lean in toward you because of their interest in you. Visualize yourself so full of light, people can’t take their eyes off you.

    My friend Rose used to always want to be happy. If we, “her friends aren’t happy, then she’s not happy.” That was a direct quote.
   But there was also this part of her that really loved to be right. When she said certain people would never like or accept her, there was no talking her out of it, or at least it was pretty hard. If she thought someone was cheating her, which was often, she’d do everything in her power to prove her point. She’d argue on and on in an effort to be right.
   Usually the stuff she knew she was right about had to do with old beliefs. 

   “Don’t look back.”
   “Your past is just a story.”
   When I read these well-meaning posts, I kind of shudder.          Your past is a huge part of what creates your future, whether you realize it or not, and whether you want it to or not. Why?

Elephant’s memory

   Your ego, fortunately, is designed to have a very long memory. 

   Before you read this, think of three people you admire. These can be real people, or characters from films or books. Just make sure they’re people YOU admire. Forget what your friends or family think. This is about YOU.  In the alchemy of your life, the people you choose for role models have a lot to do with your potential and your life purpose.
   These people can be quite different from each other. For example, two of my role models are Cher and Anwar Sadat.
   Now you can start thinking about how your role models benefit

       Kelsye Nelson’s tweet of yesterday morning seized me by my shoulders.
   As a recovering, but not recovered, procrastinator, I saw her “Completion is power,” tweet’s finger pointing right at me. (And as a practicing dyslexic, it took me minute to realize that I’d misread the quote as originally found on Gretchen Rubin’s

    Jealousy can be one of the most life-transforming experiences you’ll have.

    I didn’t used to think that, though.

    I used to hate feeling jealous because I didn’t know what to do with its wrenching pangs that ate away at me. No matter how I tried, I failed to wish or pray the feelings away. Worse, I knew my behavior revealed my jealousy, which made it doubly awful. Have you experienced something similar?

   When my daughter Lisa was graduating from UC Santa Cruz, she wanted Davy and me to come early to attend a party that was to start at collegiate hour of 11 p.m. That seems like a no-brainer, right? Except we lived five hundred miles away, and we’d be driving through LA’s Friday-night rush-hour traffic. Obviously we needed to
leave our house no later than 2 p.m. to make it on time.
    A caveat here: Davy does not have the same, intense sense of time that I’ve acquired from 33 years of teaching school and being controlled by school bells. So a 2 p.m. departure for him could mean a 3 p.m. departure, or later. I knew this about him, and I fumed 

Welcome to The Happiness Path Blog. It is dedicated to helping you create the happiness you want in your life.  At The Happiness Path Blog, we believe:

• It’s important for you to have what you want because what you want has much to do with your life purpose. But knowing what you want sometimes takes focus.
• You can create anything, good and bad, consciously and