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9. Worthy goals and ideals

Concentration camp survivor, psychologist and author Dr Viktor E Frankl, (author of Man’s Search for Meaning), said that our deepest subconscious drive is
to identify and pursue our meaning and purpose in life. Frankl spent the war years confined to Auchwitz concentration camp where he observed that only 1 in
28 of the inmates survived the ordeal. Those that survived were no fitter, no healthier and no more intelligent than those that did not survive. What they did
possess though was a strong and definite purpose in life, a reason to live. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of purpose in life.

The key to any progress on the path to increased happiness is having a set of defined goals. These goals would be for all the major aspects of your life - health,
financial, relationships etc. and would be for various time periods i.e. you need to have a goals about where you see yourself at the end of your life and then
develop a set of intermediate goals. True happiness comes from steady progress towards your meaningful goals.

You need to feel that your life has purpose and meaning, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to the world around you.

10. Personal fulfillment

This is the certain knowledge that you are moving your life towards the realisation of your full potential as a human being. This is called "self-actualisation"
which is characterised as the primary attribute of the healthiest, happiest and most successful men and women.

A major benefit of studying yourself and your own path to success and happiness is that it will show you how to become your own psychologist. You will learn
how to achieve and maintain a positive, optimistic and happy mental attitude and how to develop a fully performing, mature personality.

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Defining the ten ingredients of happiness helps you identify what to aim for. Defining your life in ideal terms, you will
develop the courage to decide exactly what you want and begin the process of removing the obstacles to your success and happiness. Later, you will learn a
proven process of thought and planning to achieve whatever goals you want.

When you begin to practice what we will learn here, you should enjoy greater peace of mind, improve your perceptions, elevate your self-esteem, benefit from
enhanced self-knowledge and increased awareness, enjoy better health and energy, more and better loving relationships, greater financial freedom through
more fulfilling work, construct exciting goals and ideals to which you can commit yourself, and savour a wonderful feeling of personal fulfilment and personal
achievement.

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