Writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne reveals what wisdom looks like:
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
A written piece from one of Jim Rohn’s timeless seminars:
"The ultimate challenge of life is to take your results, take your money, and fashion for yourself a good life — with your own hands, your own ideas — like painting a masterpiece.
A good life does not happen by accident."
When I was 25, my teacher gave me two phrases that changed my life. I want to share them with you.
Here’s the first one:
“If you wish to be wealthy, study wealth.”
He gave me a whole new economic philosophy. I studied, I practiced, and I became wealthy.
Here was the second phrase he gave me:
“If you wish to be happy, study and practice the art of happy living.”
Up until then I had no concept that happiness was a study. My best hope for happiness at age 25 was just to go through the day with my fingers crossed… Hoping somehow something would make me happy.
But my teacher said:
“No! Happiness is not something you postpone.
Happiness is not something off in the future.
Happiness is something you design.
Happiness is a study.
Happiness is a practice.
Happiness is an art — it’s not an accident.”
Anyone who wants to can study and practice the art of happy living.
Start with your family. If you want a happy weekend, you’ve got to design it. You’ve got to fashion it. You’ve got to weave it — like a tapestry — with your own hands, your own ideas.
Don’t leave an important weekend to the ‘winds.’ Don’t leave a child’s birthday to the ‘winds’ and let the ‘winds blow’.
Fashion the day. Fashion the weekend.
Engage in this happy living called: Lifestyle.
Another part of it is culture.
Take an hour. Take an evening. And go soak up the music. Soak up the symphony. You gotta let these things affect you.
Happiness is like culture. Money doesn’t make you cultured.
Culture is a study. Intelligence is a study. It’s not an amount, It’s not an account. It’s a study.
Money doesn’t make you intelligent or cultured.
Only study and practice make you intelligent, only study and practice make you cultured, only study and practice make you happy, study and practice make you rich.
Key phrase:
“Don’t be lazy in learning — first, how to do well. Next, how to live well.”
Don’t be lazy in learning and practicing:
- The Art of Economics
- The Art of Productivity
- The Art of Lifestyle
My mentor taught me these things in such simple terms.
A reflection on a timeless Jim Rohn seminar.
How To Master The Art of Happiness
I hope you enjoyed.
Cancelo Alvarez
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