A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.

"Not very long," answered the Mexican.

"But then, why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?" asked the American.

The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family. The American asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

I watched TVO last night nad the topic was ‘What makes us Happy’. They talked a lot and at the end of it there was little information, in my opinion that people could apply to enhance happiness, or better put - happy moments. There was reference of a Havard study in from 1930 which I believe has little bearing on today. People were not nearly as self expressed back then. But more importantly, with todays scientific barometers we cannot measure happiness – it’s like measuring pain. (I know, interesting juxoposition).

As you go on with your daily life your routine you will find one thing consistently I promise you; you will run into people who think differently and communicate in ways you may notunderstand or even disagree with. If you allow it to, like most, it will ultimately interfere with your happiness. You may say things such as; ‘customer service people should be considerate and honour me as a customer first and foremost’ or ‘people should apologize when they are wrong or unfair’.

Of course we all encounter problems and obstacle in life and how we choose to look at them determines your happiness from day to day. We have a habit of reactively labelling things that happen in our life. Perhaps you meet someone special and label this a 'good' thing. After a few months you may become acquainted with their idiosyncrasy and then label it 'bad' or take the perspective that you picked the 'wrong' person. Or how many of us get fired and go; 'Wow!, I can finally start my own business like I had always dreamed.'

Perhaps You're Happier than you Think!...

A Book Tour across Canada and USA! Given we are currently being bombarded with negative information in the news about the economy and the state of the world, postive tools and tips to manage life are needed more than ever.

Robin H-C will be offering FREE Happiness Seminars along with a Q & A and signing. Regardless of whether you choose to purchase the book you are invited to attend a seminar on how to overcome common barriers to happiness.

Robin H-C and Jennifer do an exercise that illustrates how Happiness can be a choice. At any given moment we can justify emotions of happiness or sadness, elation - frustration depending on our focus. Try the exercise and see - this is one of many exercise in Robin's book 'Thinking Your Way to Happy!'. Each page stands on its own offering a Life Principle, an Ispiring quote AND an Ah-Ha when applied with enthusiasm.

Thinking Your Way to Happy! is available at Chapters and also on this site, please click the link with the book title.

Ann and Robin discuss how to 'put yourself out there' to find an ideal mate. Taking actions consistent with what you want - be bold and brave and open yourself to new people. Give up judgement and be in the moment! Your idea partner in not going to fall from your ceiling and grab the doritos out of you hand as you are sitting on your couch in sweats and say 'there you are!'

Get inspired, exercise courage and go after what you want. Robin's Top 10 on how to be powerful and get more of what you want from life. We have 60 - 90,000 thoughts per day, most repetitious, many self depricating. Techniques to slow the mind down, step outside of your thinking and get inspired about life!

In this interview Robin and Ann Rohmer discuss "How to increase your motivation". By identifying and eliminating (or limiting) people, patterns and behaviors that deplete your energy you can immediately enhance your motivation.

The quality of conversation we have with ourselves directly impacts the results we experience in life and our ability to derive fulfillment at any given moment. Robin talks of ways to plants seeds in the sub-conscious and train our mind for peak performance.