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May you have a truly happy New Year this year and always! I say truly happy because we usually settle for the temporary type of happiness that isn’t real or lasting. We all pursue happiness in our own unique way, but few find, if ever, true and lasting happiness. Certainly we have all felt “happy” when everything goes our way—we get the job, the mate, the recognition we seek. Need fulfillment happiness is never lasting and ultimately leads to disappointment or a fear of loosing what we have gained or achieved.

So what is the true happiness we desire when we say the cliché Happy New Year? True happiness is a deep feeling of contentment, joy, peace love and gratitude that is un-conditional. That is, it is not based on some external, temporary circumstance, person or possession. It is rooted deep within our own true Self. True happiness is actually our default setting—our birthright, our divine inheritance.

So why is true happiness so illusive? Simple—we are looking for it in the wrong place—in a “perfect body”, enough money, love, respect and success—on the outside. Most of us seek happiness by listening to our mind—our beliefs, expectations, and our thoughts rather than to the wisdom and simplicity of our hearts.

My advice: give up making New Year’s resolutions and the inevitable failure and disappointment that comes with them. Instead look within your own heart to the wisdom that will guide you home to your Self, that holds all the treasures that your heart desires.

In my website you will find many articles, interviews, books, DVDs and tapes and links to help you in your journey to find true happiness and the secret to a Happy New Year.

In the new year I look forward to the release of a new book in April 2010 that I contributed a chapter to called “True Love” in “Creating a Marriage You’ll Love” (Sellers Publishing). I will be joining John Grey, Harriet Lerner, Gay Hendricks, Kris Carlson, Mike Robbins and other collaborators on this helpful new book for couples and newlyweds. The new Japanese translation of Slowing Down to the Speed of Life will also be available sometime this year. Lastly, I just had an article published in Fly Rod and Reel magazine about Dr. George Patterson and my Fly Fishing for the Mind seminars. Go to the news section of this website for other new materials, programs and trainings.

Have a truly Happy New Year!

Joe