Money and Happiness Reloaded

Money and Happiness.

Mwangi Amos

With $100 you are probably able to take yourself for a day out, you can take your favorite food and as well buy a pair of shocks.  Maybe, this makes you happy! On the other side, another person may have a roof over them, they got something to cover their naked body and they don't go hungry. To them, this may be defined as happiness. As it can be seen from these two different scenarios, happiness and money got a deeper relationship. Let us try and discuss further this comparison in a much deeper way in this article.

v  The Reality.

As much as money is concerned and how beautiful it makes our life, there is a lot that money can't do. Money will build you a magnificent house but there may never be found any peace in that house! Money may give you every kind of fashion that come up, but on the other hand, your body might be too big to bring out the desired outfit. Hence no happiness in this case. You may have a lot of money to give your family anything they need, be it a mansion home, high-class vehicles, a great adventure, or an out to their country of choice. On the contrary, you may have a nagging wife or a stubborn husband who is always drunk and cheating with every kind of lady out there. In this case, will you be happy? The answer is no, you will rather be depressed and hate life despite having all the money with you.

v  Further Analysis

Money is good, but it can't buy happiness as the say goes. Having people living around you and even supporting you on what you do, and encouraging you to do better is something money cannot do. Having obedient children and intelligent too is virtue money won't give us. Human happiness is a cycle that depends not only on money but on so many other parameters. It's therefore very important to dictate what happiness is for you. If your happiness comes from helping others, use the resource you may have to do so. Not necessarily by the use of money, some of these people need your advice, guidance, or even your prayers.

Never let money raise your pride and you treat people with arrogance, remain humble despite how much money you make in life. Money will not pick you up if you happen to fall, it's the people around you that will do so. Use the power of money to create happiness for you and those within your vicinity.

In conclusion, a source of income alone can't bring happiness, happiness is defined from so many dimensions. A caring life partner will not be bought by money, an outstanding character will not be brought about by money. Peace of mind, healthy, and morals among others are virtues that money cannot give. We need to understand that money is one of the parameters that define the cycle of human happiness. This being said, make sure you use the money to bring happiness, and let it create an environment where life is enjoyable and where people can co-exist in harmony.

Money and happiness

 Money is good, it makes life enjoyable. Infact with money one is able to get anything they wish. But is money a real definition of happiness? We shall discover this in detail in my next article. Check out for this informative content coming up.

10 STRATEGIES TO A SUCCESSFUL LIFE

10 Strategies to Make It in Life.

Mwangi Amos

To be successful in life you need to stop worrying about what might not work and let the emotion and consciousness of your mind go for what you believe in. Success in life does it mean a good job or great wealth. A good relationship, well-managed time, and mental and physical health contribute a lot to human happiness, happiness is one of the greatest achievements any human being may get. However, do not confuse happiness and success. You may be quite happy living in a single room or having only two pairs of shoes but you feel you have not gained your goals in life. Success is when one has been able to attain their vision in life. Now that we understand what success in life means, how do we get there? It is worth noting that despite how one may define success, there are always common strategies for this as we shall see in this article.

1.      Embrace a Good Character

Character defines a person, you will attract a type of life your character dictates. Success needs a clear set of disciplines for one to achieve it. Character develops into a habit, if you have a character of being reckless with what you do, this will turn into a habit and you may not be able to stop it. Hence success will become a mountain for you. You cannot succeed alone, you need mentors and financial supporters among others. If you have a bad character, you will keep off great associates who may help you achieve your vision and goals in life.

2.      Plan for Your Life

Based on what success is for you, have a clear vision of where you want to be, and set realistic goals. Once you have your plan in place, stick to it and gather all the necessary materials for you to discover your vision. Be careful not to listen to the voice of other people. It's your vision and goals, not theirs. Give it all your energy and focus. If it calls for your development just do it.

3.      Apply Various Methods

 The path to success is not smooth, anyone who may tell you that they found that one way to success, will doom you. The path has crest and booms along. Do not stick to one way towards your goals, apply various strategies that may prove worth to your vision. Benchmark from your mentors and borrow their idea of how they did it to succeed. Do a lot of research on how these people carry out their business? Be aggressive towards meeting your goals.

4.      Don't Always Say Yes!

  Though it may sound awful, it's very ok to say no. This implies that you understand yourself and you will know what is worth your time, investment, and energy. If you keep saying yes to every opportunity that comes your way, you will end up taking the wrong choice that may waste your resources and at the end of the day, you won't achieve your vision. You have heard of people turning down great opportunities that came their way. This doesn't imply that they are fools! No, it rather means they understand what they want in life.

5.      Turn Your Mistakes Into a Lesson

Success comes as a game of try and error, the road to success is marked by a lot of failures. Turning the mistake into a lesson is the key to success that most people who have made it useful. You probably have

Heard the say, we learn from our own mistakes. If you fail, just don't stop. Make sure you don't repeat the same mistake on the journey.

6.      Have Great Relationships

You need people to challenge you, correct you and as well support you on your journey to success. Creating a great network of relationships is of much value as long as being successful is concerned. Have competitors if you want to be successful. Network with those great people you aspire to be like, learn from their journey, and implement what they aspire you to do.

7.      Let Your Goals Come First

You have the vision to go for, don't let other issues of life divert you. How will you do this and yet other obligations are as well part of you? You need to be a very good time manager and have a numerical ranking system that will help you manage your tasks so that you can concentrate on your set goals.

8.      Evaluate Your Risks

Do a proper analysis of the risk involved. You are probably venturing into a new project, there are a lot of worries that come along with this. It's for this reason that you have to evaluate the risk involved and see whether they are worth going for, and the loss that may accrue.

9.      Be Mentally Prepared for the Unexpected Outcomes.

Things are not going to turn out the way we plan always, it is very important to have this at the back in your mind as you take the road to success. So how do you prepare for the opposite outcomes? Jot down some of the things that may not work out. Then have their remedies in place. This way it will not surprise you if something doesn't work since you will be prepared for the majority of it.

10.  Acquire More from the Oracle.

Do a lot of research on what successful people do, and what are their tricks. How do they manage their time? How do they balance their life? Have someone who inspires you to be your best. Do you want to be a writer? Look up to people like Walter Akolo, see their style of writing, and what motivates him among other areas you want to venture into.

 

In conclusion, success has no clear road, the path to success is paved with a lot of obstacles. It takes a lot of zeal, hand-work, and discipline to make it. Set your goals, prioritize those goals, and have a plan in place. Mitigate the risk involved as your move towards your success and evaluate whether they are worth going for. Remain focused and go for your vision.

THE POWER IN YOU

 When God created man and placed him in the garden of Eden, he gave him all the dominion over everything else he had created. You therefore, have the power over every situation that comes your way. Happy life comes as a result of believing  you can. Fighting for what you know you are capable  and and remaining focused towards achieving it.

Enemy of happiness

 The greatest enemy of your happiness is your mindset. It's you who believes that you can't make it through. Go for it! You are capable of making it happen. You are the one driving most of your energy on the negatives. The greatest enemy of your happiness is yourself.

Finance management

 

7 Effective Way of Managing Your Finances

Mwangi Amos

Finance makes up almost 80% of our life, they say money moves everything. This being true as per se, financial management is very crucial. You may be having a good job with good pay, but if you don't manage what you earn, you may end up living a ruthless and mislabeled life. Manage your finances so that it may manage you. In this article, we are going to discuss seven ways that you can effectively manage your finances.

Evaluate Your Source of Income

How is your cash inflow? Is it from a stable source? These questions among others will help effectively manage your finances, you will know how much you get from both direct and indirect sources of your income. You will be able to give priority to most obligations.

Spend less

To avoid the stress of always being found in debt it is very important to spend less than you earn. For you to live a happy life, don't compete with your colleagues or even friends and to some extent your relatives. They might be having a much more stable and higher source of income. Live up to your means.

Check Out Your Expenses

Great spending behavior is vital in financial management, don't be an impulse spender, have a plan and do a budget of your finances and by doing so, you will live a happy life as you enjoy your finances.

Make Sure You Save

No matter how litter you earn, just ensure that you save something out of it. Saving is vital, especially where one wants to invest. It is out of saving that any future uncertainty that may arise is curbed. Saving reduces the stress of borrowing on shameful matters such as traveling fares to attend to an emergency case within your locality. Save and safeguard your future.

Turn your Saving Into your Investment.

Once you fully implement the policy of spending less, the extra cash is saved. Too much saving is not reasonable as it gains zero or little returns. It's wise therefore to convert the saving into an investment. Investment is a wide topic that we shall discuss in a different article. You may invest in shares or bonds. It may be in real estate or whatever platform after analyzing the risk and return involved. Investment results in wealth creation. Who won't enjoy life once they have accumulated wealth?

Take an Insurance Cover

Having an insurance cover is a very important strategy for risk mitigation. In event of an eventuality or disaster happening, insurance will save you the risk of loss that you could face. It is so unfortunate that most people do not see the essence of having insurance coverage. If you are the sole breadwinner, insurance cover is one of the assured means of a survivor for your family in case of any misfortune.

Have a Plan for Your Future

Make sure you have a plan for your retirement. This a phase that must take its cause in your career cycle. You can do this by wisely investing your saving for post-employment use. This is why it is very vital to make saving while still working or earning.

 

In conclusion, Finance management is very important as seen from the various outlines above. To live a happy and fulfilling life, one needs to be sensitive to how they make spending, saving, investment, and plans after the source of income are gone, or they are no longer able to work.

 

 

7 PRINCIPLES TO HAPPY LIFE

7 Principles to Happy Life.

Mwangi Amos

Wow! Number seven again. I have read about this number all through my life and I do hear people call it a lucky number. In the spiritual life, this number is referred to as the number of completion. What if there are seven principles you can apply and live a happy life? Read through this article and discover these amazing guidelines.

1.      Live Each Day at A Time

People live a life of worry, they are worried about what will come next and where to have hope for tomorrow. However, being visionary is very important and of crucial concern, living each moment is a discovery that many people don’t have towards enjoying life. Live today and let tomorrow come. Doesn't the bible even state in the book of Matthew 6:25 onwards against being worried about tomorrow? Each day has its trouble. Let the troubles of today bother you and live the future to the owner.

2.      Be Positive With Life

Being confident and positive about life is a gift. We all struggle to remain positive despite what comes our way and all the storms of life.  This is the fact, once you remain positive amid the challenges of life, you will always make sober decisions and come up with a solution to whatever challenges you face.

3.      Go for what You Love and Enjoy Doing.

You are gorgeous, fabulous, talented, and brilliant. With all these characteristics and so many more that you possess,  it is just not ok for you to keep doing what you feel is a burden to you and more especially your job. You need to be your best, go for that dream you have, and live that life you wish to, at the end of the day nobody is going to live your life.

4.      Embrace yourself for whom you are

Yes! Self-esteem as many call it, you need to appreciate that you are wonderfully and fearfully made by the creator of the universe. Stop undermining your capabilities, you can do it, you can become it. Just love what you believe in and work towards the same.

5.      Be Mindful About Others

The only true act of being human is being there for other people. It does matter if you don't believe in the theory of altruism, life is fulfilling when you can support people either emotionally or on a practical basis. Being Mindful of others is a true sign of one being a human.

6.      Advance yourself

As Stephen Covey calls it "sharpening the saw". You need to keep developing yourself towards the best version. If it calls for you to read do it, if it calls for a change in a career do it! Just make sure you don’t remain in the same place. If you were granted a chance to cut down a tree within a limited time, you would use most of the time to sharpen the axe and make your work easier. Apply this and equip yourself more towards living a happy life.

7.      Go for your passion

Passion is what drives a person. Do what you love the most. You will enjoy life if at all costs your passion is going to be accomplished. Analyze what you love the most and go for it, this is where your happiness is concealed.

The Power of Thoughts

 As a man thinks, so is he/she. Learn to control your mind. Don't allow  the power of being negative always click back at your head. Always have the possibility of the best. Life is for the living, stop acting like you are dead.

Relationship management

 

4 Tips towards Great Relationship with People

Mwangi Amos

A good relationship with people both in day to day life and even at the place of work is very crucial. When people relate well, there is drastic reduction in conflicts or even fighting. In a place of work setting, a good relationship among the employees results to a great positive impact. For example, high production, job satisfaction, one feels incorporated in to the ownership of the entity, healthy fitness as well as being psychological sober. To achieve this one needs to learn people, accept the differences, be ready to change and finally understand the various human personal personalities. In this article we are going to see tips to towards achieving this.

Ø  Take Time to Learn People.

Whether at is at your place of residence or at work, take your time to learn about people, what are their likes and their dislikes? How do they want to be addressed? What are their view in the various different matter at hand? It’s worth noting that we can’t all be the same, we come with different stands and also relates differently.

Ø  Accept the Differences Arising

As you continually interact with people you will come to realize that, they don’t think as you do, they don’t view life the same as you do, they have their own perception to everything that matters to us as humans. The moment you accept this difference, the co-existing becomes so easy and peaceful.

Ø  Be Ready To Change

After learning how people behave and why they behave the way they do, the next step is to try and fit into their way of relating ensuring they don’t change who you are but enchasing your relationship. In your life, never try to change people or force them to be you.

Ø  Understand The Various Human Personality

 

Personality traits determines a person character. It is worth noting and understanding the various human traits so that one may understand the various kind of people they are dealing with. To easily understand the different types of human personality we use the acronym OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Every time we are talking about people either being talkative, anxious, active or quiet. We are always referring to human personality. It is very important to learn about all this traits and their sub-traits so as to improve on our relationship with others.

Among other tips that can be applied to help one to have a sober relationship with people, it’s worth noting the benefits of a good relationship with people both at a personal level and even at the place of work. As discussed above a proper relationship enhances one’s production and work, its enables one to achieve a healthy living since there is less pressure, a good relationship with people also ensures a less stress free environment. Due to great understanding of the human personality traits, conflict among colleagues or even at our homes is drastically reduced. Relationship is a very vital aspect of every human being.

What is Life

 Life is what you believe you are. you will always go to your limits. Dream big and such will be life. keep off the negative energy and use it to be productive. problems and barriers of life, face each and every person. But dwelling on them will only drain you. instead, go for the solutions.

 

THE REALITY OF LIFE

Mwangi Amos

 

Life is a precious gift that one is given by our creator, it’s a beautiful thing one should fully enjoy. But the fact is that most of us don’t live to enjoy life. But why is this the case? The answer to this question is that most of us have no idea that life is spiritual. Have you ever bought a new device that you have no idea of how to use? What did you do? You probably went through the manual user book to understand its use and how to go about it.

In the same way, we were created by God with his own intended purpose, he is the one who knows that purpose and that why is very important to keep asking him the purpose as to why we exist and as well read the manual user book the BIBLE. Once this fact seeks deed in us the reality of life becomes clear to us. It’s only God who has the answer to the reason as to why we exist, we shall become what God intended us to be when we align well with his will.

Now ask yourself this question, how is your relationship with your creator? After answering this question you will be in the position to see if you are serving the purpose for which your maker intended from start. If NOT it’s the highest time to come back to the true lane that will lead you to your intended DESTINY.

The first step towards all this is accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, believing that he died on the cross for your sin and that he overcome death. He rose from the death and that on the third day he came back to life and he now lives on the right hand of the FATHER. By believing, you then desire to do his will and obey his commandment, have the desire to be filled with the holly sprit who will guide, council, comfort, direct you towards your original purpose as to why you exists.

For you to overcome you need to remain connected to Jesus Christ in the book of John 15:1-8. If you remain connected you will be able to honor God, live a peaceful life and fruitful life, live an abundant life and this is God’s will for our life. Without Jesus you can do nothing. John 15:5. It is the Holy Spirit that enables us to control our bodies ROMANS 8:5-14.God call you to do what you are not able to do so that you can depend on him.  God’s call is greater than your education, is greater than your knowledge, wisdom, your strength.

Don’t work towards your destiny alone, you need to understand that when you are disconnected from the source of your life, you will be defeated, you will live on bitterness of lose. It is highest time you pray that, God may fill you with the currency to operate for the spiritual kind of life. Build up your spiritual capital, pray without ceasing 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17

HEALTHY LIFE, HAPPY LIFE

 

4 Strategies Effective for Losing Weight

Mwangi Amos

Weight management is very vital both for healthy purposes and body fitness. Unfortunately, so many people willing to achieve this call always feel overwhelmed and discouraged and they end up giving up. The question remains, why is this the case? In this article you are going to learn the reason and what is needed of you. What do you need to change and implement?

1.      Be motivated

Nobody else is going to help you lose the weight, you need to remain motivated towards achieving this. How are you going to be motivated to attain your goal? You need to come up with a strict workout plan that you are going to follow in the letter. Give it time and remain focused, you will not lose weight within the next two days. Just keep up with your plan. As many physical excises are highly recommended, I opt to go with dieting as the most effective way to achieve this major goal. Science has proven, that once one engages in physical excises, the basal metabolic rate increases and this calls for an increase in nutrients to produce more calories.

2.      Make sure you are prepared

Ensure you are mentally ready, remember you are doing this for yourself, it’s for your benefit, and it's for your health and that sharp look that you are doing this. Therefore, remain focused, keep going, and don't look back. Be prepared to do this invariably. Be disciplined to your plan and be ready to change so much on how you do things, as I mentioned earlier that I go with dieting, it’s worth noting that am not against physical excises No! If you are in the position to combine the two the better for you. But make sure the workout does not interfere with your dieting, it will make no sense that you intend to lose weight, but on the other hand, you do the workout and lose 3 calories for example, and later on, take in another 4 calories! You will be doing zero work and the result is that you are going to be discouraged.

3.      Have realistic goals in place

When setting goals is very important to consider the process, for example walking for 20 minutes or losing 10 pounds in a month. How are you going to go about it? It may look obvious to set these goals, but the reality of the matter is that you need to be realistic. Don't lie to yourself by setting ambiguous goals, like for example don't say that you will lose 10kgs within two weeks, losing weight is a long-term process that needs a lot of consistency and commitment.

4.      Make use of Healthier foods

Nutrition is the Key and I will emphasize this till it sinks deed in your mind, take in foods that are low on calories, food rich in starch are an example of such foods. Take in food rich in proteins and fiber to enhance proper digestion and as well take a significant input of water to enhance emulsification

In conclusion, losing weight is a personal initiative that needs personal input and determination, it’s for the benefit of oneself that one does it.