The Perpetual Happiness Manifesto: How Happiness Fuels Success in Work and Life

By Bruce Ellemo

You know how it feels when you feel great, you can take on the world! Why wouldn't you want to feel this way all the time? And you can; it's waiting for you; it's like winning the lottery. Our brains have the amazing ability to create new thinking based on what we dwell on, how we feel, and how we act. Neural pathways, comprised

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pipe Dreams Entertainment Inc
• Release date: Feb 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781778070204

Bruce Ellemo

A speaker, author, entrepreneur, coach, and mentor, Bruce has transformed countless lives with his message of prosperity. For more than twenty-five years Bruce has been motivating and helping people achieve success and abundance in both their personal and business lives. He is the Best- Selling author of "Things I Wish My Parents Taught Me" and The International Best Selling book, Conquer From Within - 6 Simple steps to Unleash your greatness and Elevate your Life. Bruce is one of the most in-demand speakers and seminar leaders around today. His presentations are deep, impactful, inspiring, and full of modern world approaches that can be applied by individuals and corporations alike.

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Introduction

Our minds are malleable; they can be altered, shaped, and persuaded. In other words, we create how we feel. On a biological level, we can create new axiom channels in our brains that lead us to more joy, contentment, and happiness. And when we are happy, our spirit gives rise to our energy which fuels more joy and enthusiasm. Keeping our energy activated only requires a lack of negativity and maintaining uplifting thoughts. While the saying, we can be anything we want is a tired old cliché, it turns out to be true.

Our brains have the amazing ability to create new thinking based on what we dwell on, how we feel, and how we act. Neural pathways, comprised of neurons connected by dendrites, are created in the brain based on our habits and behaviors. The number of dendrites increases with the frequency behavior is performed. Picture these neural pathways as deep grooves or roads in our brain between brain cells. As messages travel these roads over and over again, they travel faster and faster, resulting in behaviors becoming automatic.

The 11-Step Process

The concepts in this book are supported by scientific evidence, many top studies, and data from the best coaches and athletes on the planet, leading CEOs, great performers, and artists alike. The 11-step process I cover here, or as I like to call them—the eleven commandments—are decisive steps forged like a blacksmith forges a horseshoe, pounded by a hammer over great heat and pressure, and then bent, cut, and reshaped until it fits perfectly. This book provides processes and mechanisms to unlock your innate capacities for happiness, inner peace, creativity, discipline, success, health, intuition, and wealth. These states are already within us; they only need to be unlocked and released. In this 11-step process, we will walk through the process of rewiring our brains for perpetual happiness; we will carve out a new you, literally.

Human beings are pure energy, and you have enough energy in you to light up a city. This is not new knowledge but the basis of human existence; you should be familiar with it as it is critical. You know what it feels like to feel great, and you also know what it feels like to feel awful. These are different states of energy. We are the controllers and curators of our energy; we control our energy 100% of the time, all the time—24 hours per day, 365 days per year. We control how we feel; we control our emotions, we control our responses, we control our environments, we control what we eat, what we say, what we do, where we go, how much we smile, how much we laugh, we are the custodian of our energy. To believe any different is to surrender accountability and relinquish your sovereignty. Do not give your power away so easily. Be accountable for everything in your life: good, bad, indifferent, like it, dislike it, it doesn’t matter. When you become accountable, you look for solutions rather than excuses. No longer will you create out there things to vent and displace your frustrated energy.

If you apply the principles outlined in this book, your energy will increase, forcing you upwards into higher awareness, leading directly to happiness. When there is nothing to be anxious or stressed out about, we are happy. These principles are not hard to understand or implement. They do not cost anything. They do not require particular degrees or advanced schooling, and there is no age requirement. The primary need for the journey is a willingness to let go of the attachment to your current life experience. Maintain the experiences that work for you and discard the balance—the bad habits, the wrong people, undisciplined thinking, and over involvement. Imagine a new life for yourself characterized by effortless success, fantastic relationships, freedom from resentment, gratitude for everything, inspiration, more sales, more money, perpetual happiness, and creative expression.

Once you have done the work, you won’t go back; the feelings of happiness are too good to sacrifice ever again. Six months is all it takes. Science proves that this is enough time to rewire and reshape your brain’s neural pathways. Think about it, in six months, you could be a completely different person, free from stress, have more optimism, joy, and happiness. Yes, it can be done and is proven to be the case. Once these characteristics are carved into our brains, they become automatic and become who we are.

Those who have already been exposed to the material in this book have shown considerable elevation and advancement. Once the mind is satiated, calm, and focused, the calibration of happiness inside you rises. This book is written to help transcend the blocks that can keep us from perpetual joy. And it’s palpable by those around you—we can see and feel each other intuitively; we can gauge each others’ energy without conscious effort. It all happens in a flash, and most of the time, you aren’t even aware of it. Inside these chapters is the path least traveled but a pathway well worth taking.

Perpetual Happiness all starts with our self-perceptions. These perceptions come from the value and emotions that underlie everything we are and every action we take. It is critical to look inside to understand why we value things in life the way we do. Why? Because everything we do, think and say day-to-day is a result of what we value and why we value it. We must challenge why we think about life the way we do. We must acknowledge that our values, viewpoints, and perceptions can be wrong. Uncertainty removes the judgment we have on ourselves and others. Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all personal growth. The man who believes he knows everything learns nothing. The more we admit we do not know, the bigger the opportunity to learn. Before changing our perceptions into better, healthier ones, we must become uncertain about our current ones. We must intentionally strip them away; expose their weaknesses and biases and recognize how they don’t fit in.

Supercharge Your Energy

Change your perceptions and change your life; the 11- step process proceeds upwards to increased energy. The higher energy field of the self is already present and it does not have to be acquired but only activated. As we release emotional and psychological blockages, our energy effortlessly increases. You know what it feels like to feel energized—you can take on the world. This more continuous state is possible, can be learned, and has a name; it’s called liberation, or as I like to call it, Perpetual Happiness. Not the type of happiness created by acquisition, an event, or an occurrence, but more an interior joy that is self- reliant, self-created, and consistent.

Once you begin to live in harmony with yourself and the flows of the universe, you are now ready for the next steps, starting with daily habits. You do not decide your future; you determine your daily habits, and those determine your future. We become what we do each day; it is no more straightforward than that. So, continue to stack up the wins and get small daily victories because many small victories become BIG wins over time. Not only does your daily routine impact your overall health, but it has a direct impact on your stress levels, sleep habits, eating patterns, focusing ability, concentration levels, peace of mind, and affects the neurochemistry of your brain.

Once at these higher steps, solid achievable plans can be fulfilled because we are focused, disciplined, creative, and have removed past stories that held us down. This is where life begins to kick into gear. The past is gone, our energy is increased, we are living in harmony, and we have developed solid daily habits. Now we let it percolate; we stay consistent, remain disciplined, and guard against the meandering mind. There is nothing that can stop you but you. So, let’s go on this journey together; it will culminate in your inner freedom and liberation, which in turn, expresses and manifests Perpetual Happiness.

Chapter One

Change your Perception, Change your Life

Happiness is one of the highest forms of success, and it turns out that it can be taught and learned. Just as one learns piano, a language, or a new skill of any kind. People’s environments, daily habits, levels of wealth, self-talk, upbringing, and current relationship(s) reveal their happiness levels. These variables dictate the amount and the meaning of happiness for each of us. Our daily levels of happiness revolve around where we are, what we are doing, what we say, how we feel, how we were raised, and the relationship(s) we are in; this is true for all of us. If you could transcend these sometimes-daunting variables and if you could create happiness on your terms, would you take it? It turns out the path to Perpetual Happiness is well worn and has left a trail for those seeking it.

No one can feel happy all the time, and it wouldn’t even be a good thing if we could. If we were happy all the time, there would be no contrast or challenges, and life would soon become boring because we would feel exactly the same way all the time. What we do want is to be happy as often as we can. Staying in the middle and not allowing your energy to be vacuumed from you at the edges of life is the path to continuous joy. This is the trail that can change your life forever.

Who are you? Who are we? Biologically, our mammalian brain means we all start out life with the instincts of an animal. Then as we grow in awareness of our surroundings and in our intelligence, our way of being can become consistently downgraded and programmed with inaccurate, biased, embellished, mistaken, harmful, and even damaging information. Today’s world is a great example; look around at all the opinions, biases, viewpoints, contentions, beliefs, and attitudes. Not everybody is right and speaking the truth. It is their truth but not a universal truth; society has erroneously passed information around for thousands of years. Television, social media, family, friends, leaders, and religious organizations are all guilty. Consequently, people have a difficult time separating their thoughts, opinions, and feelings from reality. Life can become filtered through this disjointed and unorganized vagueness of uncertainties. You can end up witnessing a world primarily made up of your attitudes and perceptions rather than self-existent, external realities.

Free Yourself from Erroneous Self-Definitions

Start by uninstalling all of the misleading and erroneous information that you believe has defined who you are today. Do not use false beliefs as crutches for hobbling your way through life trying to avoid the carefully placed traps that have been set by generations before you.