{"id":51,"date":"2011-03-10T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-03-10T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:16:46","slug":"happiness-and-success-%e2%80%93-now-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/happiness-and-success-%e2%80%93-now-pay-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness And Success \u2013 Now Pay Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n<!-- Post[count: 1] -->\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-leadin\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8279754544979895\";\r\n\/* self improve3 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2464079329\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been issuing a <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>Free Personal Development Ezine<\/a> for the past few years \u2013 each Monday and Wednesday morning, articles and short videos \u2013 and from the feedback I\u2019ve been getting  I\u2019ve no choice but to believe that there\u2019s too many people out there who moan about their existence, but who won\u2019t take the appropriate steps to change.   Most people are unhappy in what they do for a living but put up with it as a necessity.   People become numb from the routine of everyday living.   Many people are unhappy in their relationships.   And, of course, most people are dissatisfied with themselves \u2013 their shape, weight, lack of assertiveness, <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>low self-esteem<\/a>, eating habits, lack of fitness&#8230;   But what all these people \u2013 and there\u2019s a whopping great chance that this includes you \u2013 don\u2019t realize is that every single aspect of their lives would alter beyond recognition if they simply pulled themselves together and paid attention.   <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you heard me \u2013 just like your teacher told you in nursery school!   Psychology confirms that your <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>happiness and success<\/a> is correlated to how well you pay attention.   That sounds weird \u2013 but just think about it.   Successful people know how to focus \u2013 and focus is just a fancy word for paying attention.   Presence is one of the main hallmarks of success \u2013 successful people have presence \u2013 and that just means that they are more attentive to the here and  now.  Or, in simple English, successful people make the effort to turn up to their own lives!   They attend to the here and now \u2013 they invest their full attention.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with your average Joe who, research concludes, is missing in action!   The normal mind is, to quote an Irish expression, \u2018not all there\u2019 \u2013 we\u2019re all over the place.   Your normal mind is paying attention to your \u2018stored knowledge\u2019 \u2013 what you learned in your formative years.  Your normal mind has no interest in what\u2019s actually happening now and that\u2019s why ordinary people are firmly strapped onto life\u2019s sorry-go-round!  <\/p>\n<p>You need to pay attention, focus, get your head in the game.  And, in actual fact, it doesn\u2019t really matter if you don\u2019t know what you want out in your life (who is?!) \u2013 what\u2019s most important is that you pay attention to what\u2019s going on right now \u2013 you never know what opportunities you might spot (which you caannot spot if you\u2019re not all there!).   Focus is about the here and now.  Focus is about doing what you\u2019re supposed to be doing without focusing on your self-sabotaging beliefs (from \u2018I can\u2019t stand my job\u2019 to \u2018I dislike me\u2019).  Paying attention is down to being present, having presence and going with life\u2019s flow.<\/p>\n<p>Hasn\u2019t it occurred to you that all the wonderful things that have ever taken place in your life (yeah, even if you\u2019re a sad person, something good happened somewhere along the way) happened in a spontaneous manner?   You can turn back on life\u2019s spontaneity, all you\u2019ve got to do is turn up to your own life \u2013 in this present moment \u2013 focus on what\u2019s actually going on, not what your weird, normal mind would have you believe is happeing.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwisdomhealthprosperity.com%2Fselfimprovementmastery%2Fhappiness-and-success-%25e2%2580%2593-now-pay-attention%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar a2a_config = a2a_config || {};\na2a_config.linkname=\"Happiness And Success \u2013 Now Pay Attention\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/happiness-and-success-%e2%80%93-now-pay-attention\/\";\na2a_config.onclick=1;\na2a_config.show_title=1;\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been issuing a Free Personal Development Ezine for the past few years \u2013 each Monday and Wednesday morning, articles and short videos \u2013 and from the feedback I\u2019ve been getting I\u2019ve no choice but to believe that there\u2019s too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/happiness-and-success-%e2%80%93-now-pay-attention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\na2a_config.linkname=\"Happiness And Success \u2013 Now Pay Attention\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/happiness-and-success-%e2%80%93-now-pay-attention\/\";\na2a.init('page');\n\/\/--><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,365,369,358,359,305,373,374,371,363,364,361,323,368,372,360,366,367,284,324,375,362,356,370],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-achieve-success","tag-assertiveness","tag-average-joe","tag-be-a-success","tag-be-happy","tag-eating-habits","tag-existence","tag-expression","tag-ezine","tag-fancy-word","tag-formative-years","tag-free-personal-development","tag-full-attention","tag-hallmarks","tag-happiness","tag-low-self-esteem","tag-missing-in-action","tag-nursery-school","tag-ordinary-people","tag-paying-attention","tag-presence","tag-school-psychology","tag-success-happiness","tag-wednesday-morning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}