 Children struggling in math asked to set near-term goals not only outperform those asked to set more distant goals, they also develop a heightened sense of personal control, confidence, determination, and even (gasp!) an interest in math that wasn’t there before.

 Among adults, near-term goals lead to more weight loss than distant goals, and those who do lose weight setting distant goals do so only because they “improvise” more near-term goals as well.

 Those who are most satisfied with life are those working toward enjoyable, moderately challenging goals of high short-term importance. Those consistently focused on very long-term goals are less satisfied with life, and view their long-term goals as more difficult, more pressure-filled, and less enjoyable.

 Members of U. S. Olympic ski team are required to write long-term, intermediate and short-term goals, but sports psychologists who work with them have concluded that “repeated daily focusing on long-term goals is often counter-productive. The focus is too far into future and prevents athlete from completing intermediate steps essential to ultimate success.”

 Military leaders often “segment” or “compartmentalize” complex missions into smaller, “bite-sized” sub-missions.

With these findings in mind, use New Month resolutions to achieve more in your own life. Instead of focusing on your goal to build a successful business by end of year, focus on writing business plan by end of month. Instead of focusing on your goal of losing 50 pounds in next year, focus on exercising 30 minutes each day during January. You get idea. You'll achieve more, be happier, and get that great "fresh start" feeling 12 times more often than New Year's resolution makers.

Secret#3: You are "one with everything"

To be truly happy and healthy, you need to be aware of "The Oneness of All". You need to bear in mind Universality of Life. All of Universe is alive, vibrating and pulsating with life and energy and motion. There is nothing dead in Universe. Life is everywhere, and always accompanied by intelligence. There is no such thing as a dead, unintelligent Universe. Instead of being atoms of Life floating in a sea of death, we are atoms of Life surrounded by an ocean of Life, pulsating, moving, thinking, living. Every atom of what we call Matter is alive. It has energy or force with it, and is always accompanied by intelligence and life. Look around us as we will; at animal world;at plant world;yes, even at world of minerals and we see life, life, life;all alive and having intelligence. When we are able to bring this conception into realm of actual consciousness;when we are able not only to intellectually accept this fact, but to even go still further and _feel_ and be conscious of this Universal Life on all sides, then are we well on road to attaining Cosmic Consciousness.

There you have it, 3 Yogi's secrets for health and happiness! Start meditating on these 3 universal truth and will begin to see some positive change in life.

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