I’m sure you have seen Will Smith’s movie on the ‘pursuit of happyness’. I love that movie unlike many people. Come on I love thriller and blockbusters even horror movies but sometimes we need some movies to draw us back to reality and not remain there in fantasy. I believe that man is constantly searching for happiness. We wish to be in the state of happiness but so many of us ever realize that state. Why? We allow so many things to get to us. My girlfriend calls those blocks to happiness, “necessary evils” but those things happen I know but we have to look beyond that. Just Thursday I asked my girlfriend a question, “whether she believed that man could be happy all the days of his days.” I’m asking you the same thing today, do you think that’s possible. I read Norman Vincent Peale’s book, “the power of positive thinking” and one thing I learned is that to be happy you have to work hard at it.

Almost all of us allow so many things to get to us, we waste countless hours in getting out minds into thought processes that only weaken us and not strengthen us. I know things get difficult, it does for everybody. I know there are so many queer people that turn to get our nerves al the time and could draw out many reactions we would otherwise not have. It’s like the ‘evil twin’ – I hate that term.

Imagine a case when someone is shouting and yelling, just an argument. When you both yell at each other the fight continues until one person yells louder than the other or throws the harder punch. Good! Now picture this situation in which instead of yelling you whisper, the argument won’t go on…trust me, I know from several experiences. When most decided to argue things out with me, many times I know this would just be a waste of energy so I just whispers, “it’s fine, ok…I understand” It’s far better than continuing the long drag hurting you emotions. A man said that any time he was angry e would lie down; have you tried it before, when you re lying down it’s difficult to argue, you talk normally and cool off the argument. Another man also decided that when he was angry he would say in his mind, “For God so love the world that He gave,” about ten times before he reacted and by that time he was cool.

Why I’m I talking about this argument thingy; well so many of us get frustrated and angry about life and all the pressures we face in it. It read that way back in the 20^th century about 10000 Americans had to take sleeping pills to be able to sleep. Now I don’t even want to imagine that growth in number in the 21^st century, it’s crazily high. Why? Because people are running faster than their minds, rushing through this life, and then when they come to the end of it, or even right there in the middle they don’t know what they are looking for, they haven’t found happiness. Do you know that nothing comes easy? So being happy in a continuous state you need to put yourself in that mental state. Ok what I’m I even saying? I decided to resolve on it. A lesson learnt from Norman Peale in his book I mentioned earlier. I’d wake up and right there before I stepped out of my bed I’d tell myself that I’m going to have the best day ever, and I would go out there and smile and laugh at any mountain that came in front of me, it’s not easy at first but later you realize that the mountains begin to melt, because whatever anyone does can’t bring you down…nothing. Why? Because you decided to go out there since the morning you woke up and have the best of the day whatever came before you. There’s an example which Mr. Peale recounted in is book I’d like to share with you. There was this man who always woke up from bed always and he had to rush to work, he would come back tired and all worn out. Sometimes he would even miss his breakfast, I guess. One time he before putting his foot down on the floor, he notice a bed it’s nest near his bedroom window in the morning, the bird removed it’s head from under it wings, opened it’s eyes, took a look around and put his head back under it’s wings for some five minutes and got is head out again, shook his head and wings and starting singing flying down to probably look for food. The man saw and realized what many people never see and noticed before they die. You know what that is? He realized that even birds take some time to get out from their beds, they seem to take life easy and don’t allow things to control them, they take control of their own lives. He resolved to take his time when getting out of bed, relax and sing and he said that singing really helped him in the morning. I mean come on, what can stop a mind with a mental attitude to make himself happiness. Things will come, they always do. You ability to not let them draw you down is going to continue your happiness. Stop worrying.

Wake up every morning, and after saying you are going to have the best day ever day, ask God to move you through. If you encountered a problem during the day, I want you to say to yourself, “If God is for me who can be against me?” When the day ended, before you close your eyes, thank God for the best day he gave you, and hope that tomorrow will be better than the one gone by. Say this, “God, I know that those mistakes I made today were because I wasn’t listening to you. Help me Lord to listen to You all the time before I do everything. I know that those things that were so good came as a result of me listening to you.”

NO-ONE HAS ANY RIGHT TO MAKE YOU HAPPY THAT YOURSELF, I’D TRY BUT IT’S A CHOICE….DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY ALWAYS? IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE, WHY NOT TRY BELIEVING IT, BESIDES WHAT HARM WOULD IT DO.

James Allen said, “A man is what he thinketh.” It’s you choice.

It is amazing how the Bible in which we seldom devote ourselves to on the contrary to other world literature has the truth to everything thing that man wants, the solutions to all our problems. We take this One Truth provided for us by our creator as “One of those things.” Amazing human analogy and then we find ourselves crying to human governments for solutions we only the Creator has provided for in the Bible. An illustration I’ll take is for example the book which James Allen wrote, on the scripture saying that as a man thinketh so he is which he so beautifully and intelligently espoused.

The saying is as simple as it means; a man is as his thinking, no more, no less. It does not talk about these situations we are in and how we come out of it through thinking, it talks about situations we find ourselves in, is as a result of the way we thought and are still thinking. Not thinking after actions first, but thinking we lead you to action, and current situations.

The more we thinking about something, the more we find ourselves doing it, when the situation is before us. Take foe instance, a man who had thought about robbing a bank for a long time, to cater for his poverty, he on the first occasions tries to cancel the thought, but if it persists to fill his mind, he is more probable to act when the situation comes if not counteracted with another thought. A pastor once said, “It first starts in the mind. Your thinking controls your character which controls your speech, which brings you to your end (your destiny).”

People usually say be a positive thinker, I totally agree. The only problem with that statement is that when quoted to a when- I-get-in-trouble, I think a lot. Why?

Well, it is simple; in order for thinking to materialize it must be a persistent everyday habit. People should sit down just to think. Think about what? Everything! But how! That when reflective thinking comes into play. When your day is over for example (maybe for beginners), just sit down in a quiet place, some prefer noisy places too, but the important thing is to set time apart, to sit down and think, think about your day, what happened, what you ignored which you shouldn’t have. Maybe you’ll realize that today you were even not co-operating with your colleagues as usual, and then you can find a solution at that. I call it, JUST THINK theory. Take in mind that all great achievers were great thinkers. Imagine, you wouldn’t think we will sit down for five minutes and came up with today great inventions, laws, theories, policies, etc. They could sit down for hours, days, months, years, and whole lifetimes just thinking to materialize what w see today or left the answers for their generations to work on. Just think, let’s all do it together and see how this world turns out to be.