What is the best way to prepare for a new year? Some people make resolutions, but they rarely last. Some people review last year, note the "hurrahs" and set intentions for the new year. I try to check in with my desires more frequently than once a year.
What is the ultimate desire, ultimate goal? Happiness says Deepak Chopra. Below is an excerpt from his interview with the LA times. Words of wisdom and wishing you Happiness in Love in 2011. :-)
LA Times: What do you find people most want at the new year?
Chopra: What people most want is happiness. The ultimate goal of all goals is happiness. No matter what they want, they want [it] because they think that in the end it will make them happy. And so, if you look at all the research on happiness, it shows the following things: Happy people always look for opportunities where others are seeing crisis. Happy people have meaning and purpose in their life. Happy people are creative, and happy people know how to make other people happy. They're very good at building relationships, not networking but building authentic relationships. So when you build authentic relationships, you end up also being successful, because authentic relationships are cooperative relationships where you harness your collective creative and where you find opportunity. Happiness does not necessarily come from material success, so if you win the lottery today, at the end of one year you'll be as unhappy as you were before you won the lottery because you return to who are you are in your essential state. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.
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