If you are a person that loves to make everyone else around you happy except yourself... This book is for you...
I used to be like that a few months ago. Even when I was unhappy I loved to be around people to make them very happy but I was forgetting about my own happiness. I was so busy trying to solve everybody else problems, that I did not have enough time to focus in my own needs.
Codependent no more helped me understand the kind of quality life I was living and helped me to correct it. This is a very nice book to read if you just want to stop feeling like a victim all the time and start living a healthy emotional life. I highly recommend this book to people that are willing to take the challenge of building their own happiness and become inspirational human beings in other people life.
Some of the key points of the book that I learned are:
1. Detachment - If something or someone makes you feel sad, alone, uncomfortable and you just have the idea in your mind that you don't want to let that thing/someone let go because you are afraid of being alone or so attached to that person/thing that you can't imaging your life without it, take the challenge... just detach yourself from it.
You will be very surprise of the results. I used to attached myself to friends, things, jobs, and it was very hard for me to face changes in life. But the experience that everyday brought to my life made me just stronger to decide what things I just should keep in my life and which ones I needed to let them go. At the beginning is very difficult for us to let go someone/something we are very attached to, but there has to be inside ourselves the motivation and the eager of being happy no matter at what cost.
So my advice: identify those things that makes you feel awful and painful. Plan how to get rid of them. Spend some quality time discovering what are your passions in life and pursue them. Start just one at the time. This is a very difficult exercise but if you have just that desire of start being a happy person, you have to go through it.
Just remember that all we have with us is God and ourselves. We are the only person in the world that can make us happy. so, what are you waiting for? Start being happy today!
2. Be around people that inspire you to be a different person - I used to have people around me that were a significant part of my life even when I felt bad around them... but not anymore... Now I just want to read inspirational stories of people that came to earth with a purpose and were looking for that objective and confront every single obstacle in life to get what motivated them every single day to wake up to a new day... I can tell today, I have that group of people around me... First, I have God, he is my all... My family that I love very much... My friends... wow, who are every single day at my side giving me advice and just watching over me... Thanks to all of them!!! you guys know you are! Manu, Edwin, Margarita, Frank, Vero, Coraly, Jorge, Luz, LPJC, Right Management office in Austin... and every single person that I have the privilege to meet every single day... that without knowing me and just talk to me for a while, have something nice to say about myself. Thank you all for being part of my life during the difficult moments and don't give up on myself... You have no idea how grateful I am to each one of you...
So, what are you waiting for? Go to amazon and get the book!!! I also got the audio book and it helped me a lot to listen to the audio book and read it at the same time... Start today taking control of your life and be a happy person!
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