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Mike Kinnaird
Habit Guide: How to be Happy & Healthy
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I can readily identify with this. People with highs and lows tend only to exercise when feeling in a better mood but I have an eating and exercise routine which has become second nature and am consistently contented despite high stress levels of a demanding job. I used to look at attitudes first and behaviours second but I now realise it is our behaviour that shapes our attitudes.
The most fascinating thing is that this guide came into my life just as I was putting all this together myself. I will make a habit of starting the day by reading it every day, and reminding myself of everything I need to to TODAY.
It’s crazy to see how things happen. I explain. Today of all days I decided to start changing my lifestyle plan, food, exercise… and of course the mindset. Your guide arrives exacty in time to focus all this. thanks a lot Mike & James & God Bless
Hi James and Mike
Interesting book … I wish you every success.
All the very best
Don
Very Good compilation! This is a good work that you have done. I have been studying along this line for about 40 years now (since my early 20s) and in the early days the subject was not received very well. But, now, with the good work by people such as you, Mike, the word can be spread around with a greater urgency and I think that this generation is ‘ready’ to learn that which has been missing from our educational systems.
Keep up the good work!
walt
I’m such a late bloomer, it is ridiculous. I am just now tired of being tired and giving my money to the pharmaceutical companies. This booklet is a blessing for me as it just adds to my endeavor to live better. I never do anything for more than a couple of weeks, the habits come back. So we all have the answer inside us as we struggle to make lifestyle changes that we don’t stick to.
This will help me stick to it!!
The Happiness Secret is right on!
There will always be disenters no matter what you say or do.
As for me, I’ve printed 2 copies..its just the kind of thing I am always handing out!!
Thanks
Jo
Thanks for The Happiness Secret.
I have read and studied health and diet, metaphysical principles and self help material for years and I believe you have captured the secret that everyone needs to bring them to happiness.
Blessings and much success.
Dottie
Very wise: I have been working to change my habits of quite a while now. Starting with getting clean and sober 11 years ago.
I wish your secret wasn’t so simple yet so demanding. I agree this is the secret and as I said, very wise.
Thank you so much for reinforcing this idea and sharing from your heart.
You have taken your dark and painful past and made it a light to the world.
I am looking fwd to your next installment.
Here’s to Happy Habits.
Thanks Mark
The Happiness Secret chapter is an excellent ‘quick-start’ to move from despairing over a long term negative habit to actually ‘doing’ something to overcome it! The practical, friendly and sometimes humorous advice in these pages are akin to having a gentle teacher/personal trainer who helps you get started. Habit Guide accompanies you on the journey of ridding ourselves of repetitive, destructive habits that do not provide the relief we seek but rather, accumulate even more unhappiness and frustration in their path. Get started, get living, get in the HABIT!
Liz McGinness
Psychologist
Thanks for putting The Happiness Secret together. You have put it in a nutshell in a few short pages. Excellent!
I always maintain that we don’t spend enough time observing and appreciating nature. To stop for a moment to marvel at a flower or butterfly etc is a therapy in itself. The other thing is to get our hands in the soil, connect with the earth and grow plants for our own enjoyment. Hopefully this may lead to growing crops to enjoy and improve our diets which comes around to improved health and maybe a lessening of some of the stress in our lives which is such a major factor affecting the health of us all.
it’s good. it’s really a fact for me. All things are all because of our habits. What we’re keep on doing will be the result. Sow and reap… I’m so thankful for this. Through this i will do my best to change the bad habits to good ones.
God bless!
Time and excuses robs one of keeping life simple and enjoyable. Desires and passion can ruin your HAPPINESS if you are not living life in the present moment. Our thoughts determine our actions and our hands carry out these actions. So you are absolutely correct when you talk of our energy and creating good habits. Conscious living will help to keep one in check. Wow…. reading this has inspired me to be POSITIVE.
Thank You.
Thank you very much!
I read ‘The Happiness Secret’. It’s such a simple solution isn’t it? It’s something we all know but don’t know that we know I think. I have a lot of bad habits which I won’t go into but I know they are a symptom of my state of mind and feeling out of control of my situation.
So I am really going to try and turn my life and state of mind around NOW!
Thanks once again and kind regards, Julia
PS I will recommend the book!
Well well well, time for my book :D
Firstly let me start with how I read your book Mike, when by myself I tend to read aloud slightly as it helps me realize what I am actually reading. On reading the “Habit” page, arriving at “Good habits make the conditions for happiness effortless and that’s the key” I found myself to be almost screaming it out aloud and my blood tingling with realization.
I was fortunate to have a very connected mother who tried her dearest to set myself and my siblings up for life, not with equipment, but knowledge, never enough money to go on school excursions or anything of the like, knowledge was my out. So that’s where I was heading. I still have 2 or 3 quotes from the wisdom of my family, that I will continue to pursue.
“The more money you have the more worries your likely to have.”
“If your going to do something for someone, it had better be what you say it will be.”
“Insults and backstabbing is very handy, as it points out who we don’t want to know.”
I had a hell of a start to life. Like your self said in your reply to the comments Mike, “TORTURE more like, relentless torture.” Sums it up all pretty damn well.
I had a break, though, and that was the start of the truth for me. Upon leaving a VERY destructive relationship, for almost 2 years, I obviously had a lot of bad habits and was feeling the effects of them, all around me, because from personal experience “Everything effects every other thing”. Once I got out of my most recent hell I had invited upon myself, I turned to the wonderful internet to find someone who would listen. I found someone in another state, something i had never even thought of prior. “Another state? Another country? Why bother, they are all the same.” Was my quoted saying before this time.
The listener I found was a new girlfriend, one who suggested I needed a change of scenery to get myself back on track, to which it took one thought “What have I got to lose?” and about 30 secs to reply, “Why not? It can not be worse than here!”
27 days later I had my plane ticket to go from Victoria, Australia, across the Bass Straight via plane, to Tasmania (I might add, the first time I left the state and the first time I crossed water AND the first time I got on a plane).
3 months later, she had broken down and I knew it wasn’t where I wanted to be. Of course her father saw my X’s depression as my wrong doing and physically removed me from the house. Upon climbing into his car he simply said, “You got 2 options mate! go to the airport and I’ll pay for your ticket back or I’ll drop you on the street!”
Not having anything but my physical belongings to lose I retorted, for fun and with a massive smile “I actually wouldn’t mind going into town and wasting the last of my money!” (The very little I had) Well, he was flabbergasted! I am now confident he thought I was completely insane and chose that opportunity to remove me from their lives.
With all of my physical belongings in 2 large boxes and 3 large suitcases, I was left on the side of the road, in the middle of town. But I would of died before I let anything get on top of me. I found temporary accommodation and 1 year later of crazy adventuring and amusing tales, I finally walked into stable accommodation, with my own lease.
At this point I will admit I am only 23 years of age. But through all of my experiences (Way too many to list) I have always favored the idea of focusing on happiness as my #1 Priority! Though I may have found many different ways for me to claim temporary happiness, it was only while being homeless, and having the state of mind that I was focusing on today, instead of next week, that I ever experienced any “Contented Happiness” what we all desire for. That happiness that makes ANYTHING possible, that happiness that reduces any EVEREST to a pebble.
MIKE KINNAIRD, You have stumbled on the key thing to make us ALL happy people again! The next problem is the individualized teaching, required for most, for changing bad habits into good habits.
I had this pattern before I read this book, my house is tidy and clean, because any spare chance I get, I clean it. Without thinking of it. THAT is the habit your talking about, THAT is what we all need. THAT habit forming attitude for the most important areas of our lives.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MIKE, I will be printing a good few hundred copies and I will be handing them out. I wont forget your name and will be eager for anything you might release in the years to come :D
All of the best wishes, TO Mike and the rest of my brothers and sisters of the human race!
Peace out :D
Hi! Mike & James
Great Work. I loved The Happiness Secret. I found it very interesting & helpful & I intend to start today by changing my BAD habits to GOOD habits. I look forward to lots more stuff from you guys I will pass this info onto my family I have tried so many diets & cant stick to one so I am going to do my best to follow your advice & I will keep you up to date on how I am going with it.
Its high time some-one put out info on this sort of thing I personally think companys feed us alot of Bull S…t on what is good for us & infact its killing us Its hard to believe whats good & whats bad.
Keep up the good work. I cant wait to read more Have A Nice Day
Cheers
Elizabeth Rose
Hi Mike !
Thanks for a great guide ! – Well said and well done ! I have really enjoyed it ! Its like a second Bible for me !
Warm regards…
Suliano
(Fiji)
Dearest Mike,
Wow! What an incredible journey you have been on! Aren’t we all blessed that you decided to share your learnings with us and write your Happiness Secret. Thank you so much.
Love and abundance
Bec
I am amazed that I have never thought this way before but you are correct in the fact that we are creatures of habit.