say the magic words: happiness edition

Two words.  To change your world.  To save your life.  Would you say them if I told you what they were?  Would you believe them and reap the countless benefits they offer?  Maybe.  I have hope.  Thanks to two people.  Tracy and my lovely girlfriend.  Of all the things I’m proud of regarding TGOC, this may be the biggest.  Hearing them use these two words to describe their own experience?  To honor it?  To improve it?  Overwhelms me with happiness.

What are these two magic words? Ones you hear me say on TGOC all the time:

“Cash Life”.

Or, in their cases “Tracy Life” and “Eve Life”.  These two words symbolize an acceptance of my “happiness equation”.  An equation so profound, yet simple that it’s power can’t be described.

What the hell is this ‘happiness equation?’

Glad ya asked.

“TP = TP, TA = TA.”

Got it?  You look confused.  Let me spell it out for you:

The positive is the pattern, the annoyance is the anomaly.

You surrender your happiness, daily, to an imaginary boogey man who’s been stalking you since childhood.  Your “bad luck”.  Your “curse”.  Your “negative karma”.

Let me address these one at a time:

Bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit.

You know you’re guilty of this madness if you’ve ever said something like:

“Why does this always happen to me?”

“If I didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have any at all.”

“I swear to God.. the world is out to get me.”

Get real.  Your luck is no better or worse than anyone else’s.  Your perception of your experiences?  Probably is.  Perception mandates reality.  Yours.  Mine.  The world’s.  If you refuse to glorify the good things that happen in your life, and instead idolize the bad?  You’re on your way to Suck Town.  Population?  You and your foolish, self-defeating mindset.

Whenever something amazing happens to me?  I acknowledge it by saying “Cash Life.”  I expect these wonderful, extraordinary things to happen, and they do.  Cash Life is the good life.  And then some.

On the other hand, when something shitty does come up?  I feel surprised.  It’s the exception, not the rule.  I don’t dignify it by complaining, or implying that I’m somehow destined to deal with such things.  I’m not.  Neither are you.

If you want your life to improve?  You need to improve your concept of life.  Not just any life.  Yours.  “Glenn Life.”  Or “Donnie Life”  or _______ (any name on earth) Life.  Start believing your destined for greatness?  And you will be.

Happy, well adjusted people accept the fact that the positive is the pattern, the annoyance is the anomaly.

What kind of person are you?