Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast With Martin Grunburg | Goal Achievement, Productivity & Success Simplified

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." ~Buddhist ProverbWhile happiness, as the Buddhist proverb goes, can and should be a choice (most often) there is no doubt our present circumstances and events have great influence upon our current level of happiness. In fact, what happens more often than not is that we will assign and craft stories about events (in the present) and then layer on our own subjective and speculative implications (stories) about how that event will influence our future. Interestingly, these future stories (that WE are always, habitually creating at will) in turn than influence our present level of happiness.The question becomes, do we have the power to change the story, our attention and focus?Martin touches on the R.A.S.; the Reticular Activation System, a part of the brain helps selectively guide our focus, to see and find those things that we are seeking OR patterns we've seen in the past. "We tend to see what we put our focus upon... If that future story or image projectio