whether in finance, health, relationships, career, someone’s success is proportional to its development and its involvement in this area.

If there is an area in your life that you are not satisfied, this comes primarily from a lack of knowledge, or worse, incorrect knowledge, what I call false beliefs.

Example:

Many people bought their banker’s speech “the stock market goes up over the long term”.

This belief, true until 2000, is false since, and it made lost a lot of money to many people.

We all have a belief system, and of course we all think we are right, but if everyone thinks differently and everyone thinks he is right, then most people are wrong …

Learn

Personal development is simply to learn in all areas of life that affect us personally

But most adults have stopped learning at the end of their studies …

This is why most people are “stagnating”, on the professional point of view, therefore financial, but also in terms of relationships, emotions and spirituality.

To sit on its convictions is reassuring, but the price to pay is to stagnate and even deteriorate compared to those who are in a process of development, and also compared to human society that develops faster than the individual.

Being in a learning process is tiring, this challenges our fundamentals and our certainties, but it makes us grow!

Wealth

Your wealth, both financial and relational, emotional and spiritual, will be proportional to your development.

It is a law of nature as reliable as gravity on earth.

In terms of money, the gravity is strong because of the banking system, that’s why it’s so hard to become financially free.

Grow, learn, and you can finally free yourself from this yoke!

Happiness

The world is not a paradise where everyone is beautiful and kind.

Life is full of joy, pleasure, happiness, but also of pain, suffering, injury.

What makes the difference, it’s not really how we manage moments of happiness, but how we manage the difficulties of life. It is then that knowledge and the mastery of tools are very useful!

Understand others, understand itself, to be more in harmony with oneself, with others, with life!

Conflicts that are most penalizing for your life are those that occur in your own brain …

The real world (and relationship) is often a picture of what is happening inside you …

My experience of personal development

I am smart, probably gifted, younger I thought of course I knew everything about everything … haha, what a mistake!

but I have a quality: to be clear on reality, on my happiness and my results.

When I’m not satisfied, I shut my mouth and I open my two big ears, because as said someone wise, if you have two ears and one mouth, it is to listen two times more than you talk …

My life has improved when I started to cultivate humility, to adopt the thought that at any level of advancement, there are always things to learn, which can completely contradict our certainty !

If I pass my knowledge here, I stay humble and I continue to read, educate myself and learn, because when we stop growing, we stagnate, like a car that does not fill up on gas eventually break down …

The Price of Ignorance

It is important to challenge its convictions because ignorance or false belief often cost a lot of money, and not only in financial terms …

The example of the stock market has shown how a false belief can be expensive …

Personal development is an endless process, often people learn new knowledge and are happy, and are content, and suddenly end up re-stagnate, or worse, the rules have changed, and beliefs have become false!

As another wise saying: “Learn as if you should live forever, Live as if you were to die tomorrow”

Why?

Well imagine you’re in the mountains, and a danger sign warns you of the danger of a cliff.

What would you do?
Remove the sign or change direction?
The answer is obvious, isn’t it?

Yet most people, advised by their doctor, opt for the solution to remove the panel.

Depression is actually a cry of the body (and soul) that something is wrong with your life, and that there’s a urgent need to make a change.

This panel means danger … many people ignore it until they find an even bigger panel etc., etc.
and they persist to go in the direction of the cliff

Many doctors, and people see depression as an illness, it would “cure” with drugs.

But the drugs eliminates or reduces the message, but do not cure the cause (as most pharmaceutical drugs…)
The body and mind are like children, when not listening to them, they shout louder, and they cry differently, to save you from the abyss.

Taking medicine when you’re depressed, causes the body to express its message in an even stronger and more violent way, to be heard.

The feeling of depression is actually a healthy response, such as pain when the body hurts.
This is a sign that your body and your mind work well, in order to save your life.
The real message of depression is that if you change nothing, or worse, erase the signal with medication, your physical, emotional and mental health are in danger.

If you are depressed, it is urgent to make big changes in your life, whatever they are, because it can not be worse than your current situation.
If you do not have the solution yourself, call a professional.
Avoid drugs vendors (doctors) bad advice, it widens the deficit of Social Security, increases the profits of drug cartels pharmaceutical giants, and all that kills you slowly.
Instead, choose a professional who will help you find the light within you, and help you redefine your way of life.
Because if you do not know precisely the Meaning of Your Life, you go in the wrong direction.
Depression is only the danger panel warning you of the cliff you’re heading to.

If you feel a slight depression, do not say it’s nothing, it will pass …
It is the reaction of an ostrich!

Instead, take time to understand the message, and make a change in your life.
Tell yourself that if you do not change anything, the message will come back, become stronger, more violent, possibly more depressing.

Find your path of happiness, and thank the danger panel to make you change direction in time.
How to be happy training will be an invaluable guide to find your path, one where you will be Blessed and Happy passionately, intensely and durably.
It will give you a method to stay in perfect health, and say goodbye to doctors and drugs, drug side effects and diseases, sources of future diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
The word disease actually means “Evil said”
Do not kill the messenger but listen to him, find the cause, make a change to the root of evil, and evil will disappear.
It is much easier to remove a start, than an old shrub

Here’s an example:

Some people are hesitant to get a book costing 20 dollars, or to get a training that costs 40 greenbacks.

Yet these same people didn’t hesitate to buy an LCD TV costing 1000 dollars

By doing so they were regarded as making a choice of impoverishment.

Watching television hasn’t enriched any person, without reference to the size of the screen size

If that same person spent the 1000 greenbacks of his Television, to buy books and learn

If that same person had spent the hours spent in front of his Television to read and learn

That same person would be much richer today

Any resemblances to people you know is obviously fortuitous

Your current financial standpoint is the consequence of your past choices

Your financial future will be only the result of your present choices

Think about it 2 minutes:

what’s most likely to help you get rich?

Your TV or Your Private Development?

There isn’t any secret to contentment or making money

We reside in a world of cause and effect, and our life is formed by the choices we take, or not take

The majority of people don’t take any calls, but get influenced by the media, and regularly select the lazy way.

That is the reason why many people would prefer to watch TV than reading a book

That’s the reason why many folks prefer to spend money for easy pleasure, instead of complicated learning

But if you read this, you are not one of them

You almost certainly need to make your life better, and richer.

And the right way to get richer is to do the same as rich people do

Just select any rich and successful man that you admire and respect, and read its biography

Therefore you will learn much more and find great inspiration from him or her.

I just spent 3 weeks to ski off-piste in the French Alps.
Beyond the intense pleasure and beauty of the mountains during the winter, there is always the notion of risk present in the high mountains.
Our guide had an accident a few years ago that almost killed him:
rupture of the aorta, punctured lung and multiple fractures.
He should have died, suffering of lethal injuries, but he survived.
Some might think it has eased off since …
On the contrary, passed so near from the death, he became aware of the fragility of life, and its short-lived, not like a flower but almost …
This led him to live more thoroughly his passions, while being more vigilant about security.
We only live once … so it is.
If our body transforms after death, because as said Lavoisier, nothing is created nothing disappears, everything is transformed, the life of a human being is a unique and temporary parenthesis.

Whatever your age, awareness of death makes us aware that life is a gift whose time is running out …

You can choose to leave the counter flow to remain blocked by your beliefs and your fears, or you can choose to live the life of your dreams, which requires an ongoing personal development, commitment and effort … as in the mountains …
But the reward is beautiful …

Many people seem overhelmed by their problems, and their fears.
Thus they just live a life that doesn’t fullfill them but gives them a sense of security and comfort
These people usually die full of regrets, of what they could have achieved, but didn’t…

Time is running fast, and there are things that we can no longer do as we are aging.

As someone said, if young people knew, and if old people could do…

Do not let your fears control your life, but learn to master your fears to live your passions with passion!

We usually do not regret what we did, but mostly what we didn’t do

So just do it, now, before it’s too late

If you take good resolutions for 2012 it is good but it is not enough.
The resolution is the expression of a desire.
Then it faces the reality of life obstacles doubts difficulties.
And that’s where most people abandon and forget their good resolutions.
And as the same thing happens every year they eventually say that it is useless to make resolutions.

But the problem is not due to resolutions the real problem is about not taking the means to realize them.

Imagine an athlete who takes the resolution to win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.
But he does not have any strategy nor does he take the means necessary to achieve its goal nor does he trains every day.
We know in advance that he will not achieve his goal and that his resolution will remain a vague desire.
And this is what most people do just wishing things and then going back to their everyday life.
The reality is that to win a medal at the Olympics he must give himself the means any means all without certainty about the result.
But he has still to remain determined and take actions every day.
Then the resolution becomes a goal and almost an obsession.

If your taking resolutions in 2012 know that they express a latent desire and it is important to take into account to establish a strategy and take steps to reach your goal.
Focus is one of the key elements to achieve your dreams and be happy.
If you have focus and take actions every single day even when your not sure of yourself even when you don’t have the expected results then the resolution becomes possible and transforms into reality.

And it will be a source of pride that will give you happiness and increase the confidence in yourself.

I wish you a wonderful year 2012 I wish you a year where you transform your resolutions into achievements to be happy and create a lasting happiness.

I just read an article where the author said:

“Happiness is being happy with who you are and what you have”

pfff, i think it’s one of the worse believes you can possibly have.

Life is not about staying the exact same person, life is about changing and growing:

Even if you don’t want to, you’re changing.

Just look at your pictures every year and you’ll see that you’re … aging ^^

And if you are not satisfied there are good reasons:

therefore changes need to be made.

It is useless to be polite and say that everything is all right.

Not being satisfied is an emotional signal that tells you change something.

So just being happy with an unsatisfying situation is like being deaf to your own feelings and intuition.

Actually dissatisfaction is negative when it turns into frustration.

Some people get frustrated, but they only complain, and don’t change a at all.

So frustration is just growing and growing.

But dissatisfaction is positive when it becomes a drive to change, to grow, to learn, to experiment…

It creates the necessary pain to move, to open your mind, try new ideas.

In that sense it is a very positive and powerful signal, that everyone should listen to.

Still there is one very important thing:

Even if you are not satisfied with who you are, you still should love yourself just as you are now.

Many people wait to change and become a “better person” to love themselves

But loving yourself should be the starting point for your change, not the end

Accept yourself and love yourself right away, just the way you are now

Self-love must be unconditional (and real love should be unconditional too by the way ^^)

If you love yourself now, you accept the reality of your self, and you gain power to make it better

You can be dissatisfied and still love yourself, these are two completely different things

Just use your dissatisfaction to grow and love yourself even more!

A year ago, he lived in a luxurious villa in the Austrian mountains.
A huge garage housed his limousine, five aircraft were available.
At 48, Karl Rabad was a wealthy businessman, recognized and unhappy.

Today he lives with 1000 euros per month in a cabin of 20m2 without comfort, and he is, he says, “happier than he has ever been.”

“When you see the photo taken of me a year ago in front of my cottage, I looked ten years older, tired and sad”.
It is a journey in South America who opened his eyes:
“I realized that most poor people who live there are much happier than the average European. Advertising tells us that we must have the latest brand of jeans or a large house, but people who have it all do not look happier.”

In January 2010, the businessman, who made his fortune in decorative accessories, took a radical decision: he decided to part with all his possessions and retire to a mountain chalet.

An idyllic life without physical possession
To get rid of his beautiful villa built of wood and glass in a green valley Tyrolean Rabad he imagines an original method.
Instead of offering it for sale, he organizes a lottery.
22,000 people buy a ticket at 99 euros in the hope of winning the house, his garden, spa and beach volleyball. It’s a Bavarian who wins the jackpot. The 2.2 million collected will join the fortune earned through the sale of its business and assets in a charitable fund dedicated to micro-credit in developing countries.

Over the past year, the former millionaire, divorced in 2003 after 17 years of marriage, realized his dream: he lives in a small wooden house.
His life now seems idyllic.
“In the morning I wake up when my body wakes up. Then I ask myself what I want to do. Sometimes I write for ten hours straight, sometimes I go just to walk in the mountains.”

Now that he is poor, relationships with people are easier:
“Before the people I met thought I was a piggy bank. Now, when someone is interested in me, it’s not because of money, the contact is much easier. ”

Of his house and his past life, he did not take anything.

The only thing he regrets, “is time. For twenty years I felt I was leading a life that did not suit me. ”
He does not want to change anything in his new happiness:

“The material things are nothing. I am happier now, because I live at last as I always had to live. “

This quote from Mother Teresa sounds almost incongruous in our modern world, where everyone is running after something

Particularly in large cities: people cross each other in total indifference, nobody cares about anybody and beggars cause more discomfort than compassion.
Yet one of the keys to happiness is to stop just 5 minutes and ask what you can do to help somehow another human being, who was perhaps less lucky than us.

I am on Boracay island, where local people don’t want to get tanned, because poor people do since they stay all day in the sun (note the irony of the situation, western people want to get tanned because only people who have the chance to go on sunny holidays get tanned)

On the picture above you can see two young children who were begging.
I was buying a delicious Mango Fruit Shake, and rather than being indifferent, I was wondering how to give these two children some good time…
I offered them a Mango Fruit Shake, and you can see how much pleasure  they had:
1. by consciously savor the Fruit Shake
2. by unconsciously see a stranger who gave them the attention and affection
3. share this delicious moment together

For me, Life rewarded me in three ways:
1. Seeing their smiles was awesome
2. I felt happy with my gesture, and see the lovely effect on them
3. This simple action gives me the opportunity to love myself even more, which also allows others to love me

In this Christmas time, here’s what you can do and it will bring you great happiness:
Gather all clothes you no longer use, and bring them back to life, by giving them to an association for homeless people in your city.
This simple gesture will give you much more happiness, love and connection to life than all the gifts you will receive for Christmas…

Many people try to loose weight, and spend a lot of money, time and energy to reach that goal.
But if loosing weight is a problem, staying thin is the real challenge.
In fact, most people know what they should do to loose weight:
Eating healthy and practicing sport

That simple.

But knowing is something, Doing is something else

So most people are looking for external solutions:
the miracle diet
the miracle cream
the miracle solution

And they are encouraged in this way of doing by a whole industry, which profits are opposite to the results they provide

So all this is an illusion and money wasted

Most diet make loose weight in the short term, but they make gain weight in the long term

People are on diet loose a few pounds until they get fed up with these diets, and then they gain more pounds than they lost

The problem is not only the loss of money, it’s also a lack of self confidence and self estime

The solution is not external, but internal

If you want to stay thin, you have to understand your core values, and make a change in your values order.

Make a list of your most important values.

If Health is not first, then this is the reason why you are fat.
If Health is not first, then there are more important things to you than eating healthy and doing exercise:
Maybe pleasure comes before health, then why shouldn’t you eat this nice icecream?
Maybe sharing a good time comes before health, then why shouldn’t you drink that glass of alcohol?

To really stay thin in the long run, you have to put Health as your first value
Then when you have to choose between chocolate and orange, if you’re consistent with your values order, you’ll make the right decision for your health