101 WAYS TO

SUCCESS, HAPPINESS,
& PEACE

By: David R. Hawkins

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 101 WAYS TO SUCCESS

1. Internal vs. external.

2. Personal, spiritual vs. worldly.

3. Read Gingrich's book, 5 Principles for a Successful Life and

Geroge Foreman's Knockout Entrepreneur.

4. Success as winning.

5. Success as goal achievement.

6. Success as prominence, media attraction, celebrity status.

7. Success as happiness.

8. Imagine desired outcome.

9. Build good karma balance.

10. Harness desire and ambition.

11. Workable plan.

12. Self-confidence.

13. Dedication.

14. Satisfaction with progress.

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15. Override obstacles.

16. Supportive relationships.

17. Flexible vs. rigid.

18. Enthusiasm.

19. Self-rewarding.

20. Dedication to the Highest Good.

21. Pray for awareness of God's Will.

22. Retain modesty - avoid hubris.

23. Thankful rather than prideful.

24. Incremental goals.

25. Result of basic attitudes.

26. Determination.

27. Will power, 'grit'.

28. Visualize goals.

29. Chip away: incremental progress.

30. Preparation.

31. Fortitude.

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32. Picture result.

33. Develop work rhythm.

34. Create routine schedules.

35. Inspiration.

36. Harness the muse "Carpe Diem".

37. Special place and setting.

38. Expert advice/consultation.

39. Patience, persistence.

40. Hang out with successful people.

41. Avoid naysayers and energy drainers.

42. Practice the virtues - integrity.

43. Look for helpful feedback.

44. Imaginative enterprise.

45. Be friendly and upbeat.

46. Express appreciation.

47. Teamwork.

48. Group support.

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49. Dress the part.

50. Find a coach.

51. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

52. Identify, evaluate the successful.

53. Watch for subtleties.

54. Cut giant-size projects into bite-size portions.

55. Activate the 'Ego Ideal' (Freud).

56. Capitalize on energy and inspirational surges.

57. Have note pad next to the bed.

58. Ask what does the world value, want, or need and supply it.

59. Capitalize on frenetic energy surges.

60. Plod along between bursts.

61. Expect success.

62. Nail down a specialty.

63. Write about your project.

64. Do a sales pitch on video.

65. Promise yourself periodic rewards.

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66. Make photos of yourself in a successful role.

67. Reward yourself for productivity.

68. Give yourself a dollar for each great idea.

69. "To thine own self be true".

70. Put together an inspirational collage.

71. Be 'on the road' of enterprise.

72. You don't have to be a genius to build a better mousetrap.

73. Clarity of goals.

74. Do' instead of crave.

75. Put heart instead of ego into the project.

76. Which aspect are ego and which ones are soul?.

77. Is success a feeling or a reality?.

78. Self-rewarding vs. public adulation.

79. Success as adequate to lifestyle.

80. Light-hearted vs. grim.

81. Success as adequacy rather than Olympic star.

82. Success as good partnership.

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83. Success as dependability and reliability.

84. Success as responsible, reliable.

85. Stop giving energy to self-doubt.

86. Give up the excuse of 'trying' - just do it.

87. Write down all the 'negatives' and bury them in the backyard.

88. Identify helpful contacts.

89. Do "Brain Gym" exercises of the road to be traveled.

90. Energize each stop.

91. Avoid ethically dubious schemes.

92. Have supportive relationships: friends, family, cohorts.

93. Fake it till you make it' rehearsal.

94. Select a role model.

95. Decide to be happy no matter what the results.

96. Great success is often fortuitous - 'expect the unexpected'.

97. Avoid the 'winning the lottery' calamity.

98. Keep a watchful eye on the ego.

99. Realize the world has gotten along without you thus far.

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100. Success is whatever you say it is - win the hula hoop contest,
eat more hot dogs in 10 minutes.

101. Fame is only fame.

(From: "Success" Lecture, October 2009)

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 101 WAYS TO HAPPINESS

1. Source is within, not without.

2. Want what you have, instead of have what you want… including
your own existence. All that it takes to be happy is the fact that you
are. Be satisfied with the fact that you are. Be happy with what you
have.

3. Happiness is an inner decision.

4. Give up ‘poor me’.

5. Choose instead of crave, want, desire, or get.

“Dear God I seem to be the victim of this insatiable craving…

please help me”… willingness to surrender to God.

6. Surrender all cravings to God. Love of God becomes all you

want… pray… 1. Could you? 2. Would you?

7. Joie de vivre is independent of events. It is an attitude and a

superior “style” of life. In human life, there is no winning or losing.
Celebrate your own existence. Joy of life, helping others.

8. Is it the child, adult, or parent (in you) that wants? Happiness =

bubbling over and active child, integrated adult, and totally loving

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and accepting parent. The child wants to moon people on the way
here and the adult says, “let’s not do it today.” Own your child all
the time; child free to express itself.

Story: when I was 12, my mom made me wear rubbers to

school when it rained. This embarrassed me. I hid the
rubbers in the shrubs on way to school and then put them on
again on the way home. Happiness is hiding your rubbers in a
shrub!

Another story: went to internist, came home and the parent

came up in Susan, “You didn’t wear that undershirt with the
hole in it, did you?!"

9. Differentiate actual from symbolic win or gain.

10. Differentiate narcissistic (“rich and famous”) from mature goals.

11. Be pleased with the direction and alignment instead of just

completion. Be pleased with where you are, rather than “I’ll be
happy when I reach the goal.”

12. Practical reality vs. fantasy and glamour of “success.”

13. Choose decision instead of just hope. Write down your goals
for this life.

One goal : “be happy no matter what happens. Be pleased

with the direction of life-- be uplifting to others or

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 enlightenment—not how far along you are on the path
because it’s anybody’s guess. Where you are is the result of
your own decision, so you can ‘t blame anyone. No matter
which way you go, there are risks involved. Life is a sequence
of roles.

14. Be flexible vs. rigid. The reed bends with the current.

15. Cancel: ‘and then I’ll be happy…’

16. Let go of clutching and grasping.

17. Clarify goals and ideals.

18. Realize all value is arbitrary.

19. Happiness is a nap on a train or plane. God’s will for you is

happiness. To be happy is pleasing to God (Test: True). Being
happy is fulfilling your human potential.

20. Live one day at a time. If you don’t have a problem, get one so
that you can join a 12 step group. They are happier than other
people.

21. Happiness is a cat’s purr or a dog’s wagging tail.

22. Faith vs. skepticism (narcissism)—the skeptic has faith in his

skepticism.

23. Gratitude for what one has and is.

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24. Detached vs. craving—pick something you think you need for
happiness and get detached from it.

25. Glass half full or half empty…

26. Spiritual vs. material goals.

Searching for truth in all of its expressions is one of the most

advanced states of consciousness. 98 % of the world is not
interested in truth. The number of people interested in
Enlightenment is less than 1 in 10 million. “My goal in this life
time is enlightenment” is true for 1 in 10 million. Test: True.
The first great karma is to hear of enlightenment. The second
or next great karma is to pursue it. The third and greatest is
to pursue it and achieve it. Test: “Everybody in this audience
hasgood karma.” TRUE. Enlightenment is a releasing of
attachment and aversion, first in the senses… It’s half full
because it’s half empty. Spiritual goals cannot be lost. They
endure for all time.

27. Surrender to God’s will.

Spiritual wisdom evolves. For some people, shooting the

enemy is God’s will. For others, God’s will is not shooting.

28. Capacity to let go.

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 This capacity is Infinite. It’s not that you can’t let go, but that
you won’t.

29. Be pleased with progress.

30. Avoid self-judgment. This is the internalized parent. Freud’s

super-ego. Inner judge. Have your inner kid alive and well, and
sometimes you have to sit on your inner kid. My sister and I would
go on street car and mom told us to stay in our seats. I was ‘good’
and she was ‘bad’ because she would be running up and down the
aisle. For me happiness was being “good,” for her happiness was
being “bad.”

31. “Good” vs. “Bad” are circumstantial.

32. “Win” is provisional.

33. Simplicity vs. complexity.

34. Realistic expectations of life, others, events. In politics, don’t

judge the world by your values, don’t expect a lot!

35. Value is in the eye of the beholder.

36. Give up your skepticism.

37. Sense of humor.

38. Accept karmic propensity.. not causality but likelihoods…

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39. See essence rather than perception.

40. Jocular instead of morose.

41. Good will regarding all of life.

42. Easy-going vs. rigid.

43. Reduce expectations.

44. Generous instead of stingy.. Nurturance to all of life, in woods,

trees…

TEST: “The trees in the woods know that I am glad andlove

them” TRUE. They are literally aware of your lovingness of
them. It is not what you have, do, or say, but what you have
become. What can I do to affect the world? Stay out of the
way! If you step around the bug instead of stomping it, that
does more for world peace than marching in a parade!

45. Modify inner voice.

46. Be gracious to self and others.

47. Surrender the need to control.

Because of the good, you’ve earned the privilege of working

through bad karma. TEST: “When you need good karma, it’s
there for you.” TRUE. Story: truck broke down on cloverleaf in
middle of strange place, stranger came by to remove the tire,

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 took it to be fixed, brought it back and put it back on… “That
was my good karma savings account.” TRUE. “There are
angels in bodies.” TRUE.

48. Let go of desire for applause. Good will is noticed by all of life…
Generosity is an attitude, not money. Talk to your inner thoughts
so that the inner thoughts express your spiritual commitments
and alignment.Be gracious to yourself. “Thank you, Oh Lord, for
my existence.” First thing my psychoanalyst said: 1. you need to
have a thicker skin. 2. be forgiving to yourself. Too rigid superego.
Look at your intention, not the act. Not necessary to control things
in life because the good karma will take care of it. Just hold it in
mind and it tends to manifest.

49. Be glad instead of mad.

50. Acceptance instead of resistance.

51. Generous instead of stingy.

52. Candid with self and others. Be honest—“I like ‘em diced
instead of sliced!”

53. Silence the mind.

54. Give up thinkingness… stop calling it ‘my’ mind… Everybody’s

gotta speak their mind on TV, and they think that’s a step forward!
Anybody can babble! I don’t care what the man on the street

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thinks… he learned it on TV yesterday… narcissistic egotism… why
should the world give a rap about what you think? I don’t give a rap
about I think! Knowingness comes about nonlinear. It is certainty.
Comes about without thinking about it. Thinkingness is an energy
field which can be transcended.

55. Forgiving vs. vindictive.

Forgive—you don’t have to get even because karma is

inevitable.

56. Work on inner traits instead of external ones.

57. It only takes a bone to make a dog happy… it’s the small things
of life! All it takes is a sip of soda…. of espresso….

58. Sing, “Don’t worry, be happy!” in mind.

59. Choose spiritual values and goals.

You feel inner gladness about the goodness of life. What’s the
purpose of the world? It’s here for YOU. This is not egocentric.
Out of Divine intention, that which is here, is here for you.
The essence of all that arises is Divinity expressing itself as a
stage, as a wonderful wife, as these flowers, as the Kleenex,
as the diet soda, espresso…

60. Choose spiritual friends and groups.

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 “The spiritual energy of this group present is positively
affecting all of mankind.” TRUE.You serve all of mankind by
becoming as spiritually evolved as you can be.

61. Go from complete to complete.

62. Identify with Self rather than self.

Without the presence of God within you, you wouldn’t exist.

Self is my reality; self is only my temporary expression in this
domain. Snow bank experience.

63. Accept limitations of humanness, which has the karma of

protoplasm.

64. Happiness is a decision and direction.

65. Reflective vs. impulsive.

66. Thoughtful rather than critical.

67. Be content instead of complaining (weather, taxes…).

68. Realize life is a learning curve.

69. Pray.

Praying is beneficial. “It benefits yourself, loved ones, the

world, all of humanity.” Each tested TRUE. Praying is not just

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 grade school exercise but expression of what you’ve become,
which is gracious.

70. Contemplate.

71. Affirm God is my Source.

72. Sing an inner song. Learn to hum to yourself without making

any noise!

73. When feeling down, say to yourself, “Yours is the saddest story
I’ve ever heard!”

74. Insist on being miserable and gloomy. “Oh well….” Eeyore.

75. Make faces at yourself in the mirror. This is a wonderful

spiritual technique. Holy Church of Giggledom… The way to God is
through giggles.

76. Be grateful for the gift of life. Be all you can be to everyone all
of the time. Reflect back to life its Beauty.

77. Live one day at a time.

78. Be your own best friend.

79. Expansion vs. dimunuition of problems.

80. Clarify __________ with______role.

81. Play role of martyr?

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82. Play role of hero?

83. Play role of victim?

84. Play role of morally superior?

85. Let go of being the injustice collector (martyr).

86. Let go of being provocative.

87. Stop pushing one’s luck.

88. Avoid catastrophe.

89. Don’t buy a home in the flood plain or on the edge of a mud
cliff.

90. Do not win the lottery.

91. Don’t ski in an avalanche area.

92. Give up self-importance.

93. Obey the law – be polite to police.

94. Stop demonstrating.

95. Give up saving the world.

96. Mind your own business.

97. Give up being important.

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98. Improve yourself instead of others.

99. Pay your income taxes.

100. Smile and the world smiles with you.

101. Dedicate all actions to God.

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Dr. David R. Hawkins' Answers-- from Questions asked at his

lecture.

Q- How could you decline death if it is pre-set?

A- Death is predetermined for the majority of mankind most of the

time, but not for the Enlightened being. Test: TRUE.

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Q- How can I transcend thinkingness?

A- Nobody cares about what you’re thinking, so why should you?

Knowingness is nonverbal, diffuse, and global. “Karmic undoing
does not have to be verbatim” (Test: True). Just because you cut off
someone’s head in previous lifetime doesn’t mean you have to
have your head cut off in this one.

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________________________________________

Q- How do you recognize the voice of God?

A- If you question it, it’s not the voice of God because the voice of
God is self-reflecting as the voice of God. It comes by certainty. All
of a sudden it’s simple and obvious.

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(From: Lecture “Happiness” April 2009)

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 101 WAYS TO PEACE

1. Let go of trying to change and control others. The source of your

happiness is solely within you. Peacefulness has to be a decision
that you make. It can exist in the middle of war, devastation, and
catastrophe.

2. Let go wanting to ‘get even’

3. Let go wanting to be ‘right’ and make others ‘wrong’

4. Practice discernment rather than judgmentalism (Judgmentalism

says, “they ought to be different”; discernment sees the essence
and truth of a person but without judgment)

5. Be modest with opinions

6. Perfect diplomacy skills and gentility

7. Be gracious and considerate.

( “Here, can I get you something to drink?” Divinity is a quality

of consciousness, not personhood, age, gender. It is Divinity
that asks you, “What would you like to drink?” Be gracious.
That is your God-nature.)

8. Keep serenity as a goal

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9. It is okay to be ‘wrong’ or undecided

10. Calibrate the options; be flexible

11. It isn’t necessary to have an opinion on everything

12. Avoid peace demonstrations

13. Remember that Socrates was short and ugly

14. Value wisdom over being ‘right’

15. Seek wise counsel (everybody should have a psychotherapist)

16. Realize you influence others by what you are, not what you do
(best thing you can for the world is sit down and shut up! Just
having kind thoughts makes a difference)

17. Avoid activism and pedantry

18. Be grateful for your assets (your most important asset is

spiritual interest)

19. Mankind has survived millions of years without your help

20. Be your own best friend

21. Be wary of do-gooders (they want to control you—for “your

own good” of course!)

22. Read Do-Gooders by Mona Charen

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23. Let others win

24. Beware of unintended consequences

25. The innocent child is present in everyone

26. Pray to see things differently—reframe/ recontextualize

27. Accept that the majority of people calibrate below 200 (lower
your expectations – they’re doing great just to survive)

(Inner-psychic event: one day walking in the woods, there was

a vision of the suffering of all mankind throughout all of time,
like the curtain was pulled back. I switched from being very
religious, even hyper-religious, to become an atheist and then
agnostic. I didn’t realize that what was revealed to me was not
Divinity but the ego. It took 20 years to realize this mistake.)

28. ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’ (if they could do or be better, they
would)

29. All viewpoints are arbitrary

30. Renew thoughtfulness, gratitude

31. The mind is an ‘it’, not a ‘you’ (the mind talks all the time; that’s
ego. Spirit doesn’t talk)

32. Critics are a dime a dozen

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33. Review Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds by Mackay. (latest delusion is earth warming)

34. Keep a sense of humor: cattle gas (methane) vs. gas of 70

million bison as cause of earth warming… If true, earth would’ve
been a fiery ball with that many bison roaming around!

35. Everyone assumes they are right and others are wrong (Yogi
Beara- ‘I have many struggles but being wrong is not one of them!’)

36. Seek to understand others rather than change them

37. Serve God rather than the narcissistic ego

38. Seek to participate rather than dominate

39. It’s okay to have faults

40. Avoid struggle for the moral high ground

41. Support others to find the good about themselves

42. Concede to ‘what is’ versus ‘what ought to be’

43. It’s okay to just ‘be’ rather than ‘do’ or ‘have’

44. Surrender your will to God

45. Let bygones be bygones

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46. If you don’t have anything good to say about a person, then say
nothing at all

47. Realize mankind has been at war 93% of recorded history –

‘whirling peas’ is unlikel

48. Acceptance: ‘so there you are’

49. Fatalism- what will be will be – karmic influences

50. Develop a peaceful nature. Be aware of the power of Nature

(love nature)

51. See the beauty of all that exists (1 cubic inch of the Infinite Field
of Consciousness is greater than the total mass of the entire
universe)

52. Value quietude

53. Let go of willfulness; silence the inner child

54. Practice the virtues

55. Recall ‘Peace on earth, good will towards men’

56. Strive to be angelic vs. luciferic

57. Practice ‘no attractions, no aversions’ –Buddha

58. Accept social roles of others

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59. Study to understand others

60. The Near-Death Experience is one of total peace

61. Only the ego is vulnerable; the real Self is eternal

After lunch: We purposefully came back late so you wouldn’t

feel guilty about being late! Laughter.

To an argumentative person who wants to debate you, you

can say, “You’ve got something on your chin…. Is it ketchup?
Mayonnaise? Spinach?” Laughter… It throws off their mindset.
I learned that in boxing.

62. Live in each instant which is innately peaceful

63. Detach from control; be the witness-observer (it’s not a

personal self that witnesses)

64. Practice meditation and contemplation (the witness-observer

will then become dominant)

65. Differentiate wants from needs

66. ‘Wear the world like a light garment’

67. Differentiate appearance from essence

68. Be kind to all of life

69. Have pets and a garden spot

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 (I’m mindful of trees. I don’t sling an axe into a tree – Do you
think the tree doesn’t notice that?! Muscle test TRUE: “Even a
tree is aware that you are an emissary of God. All of nature
knows the Divinity of your essence and bows to it.” I love all
things because their essence is Divinity. Like the little toad. He
loves being a toad! Hops around on stage like a little toad. All
that exists is worthy of reverence.)

70. Decrease expectations of others (no one will be what you want
them to be)

71. Mind your own business

72. Make a list of worries (and then prioritize them – that way, the
mind relaxes)

73. Chocolate vs. vanilla is imply a choice

74. Differentiate emotional vs. spiritual viewpoints (“Well this is

how I feel!” Who cares?)

75. Utilize logic instead of emotion

76. Ask for a miracle

77. Today is tomorrow’s yesterday

78. Talk it over with a friend

79. Accept ‘worst-case scenario’

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80. ‘I’ll think about it tomorrow’ (Gone with the Wind)

81. Peace exists in the midst of war

82. Things could be worse

83. Life is transitory

(Death- In the Infinite dimension of time, we’re all going

together. Some have gone ahead to get us parking places and
put up a sign telling us where to go. Laughter…)

84. You were created by God (Muscle-test TRUE: “We were all
created by God.” Ha! And here you thought it was a sperm and an
egg!)

85. Go on a worry diet

86. Give up trying to be happy (Just BE happy!)

87. Give up being rich and famous

88. Walk the Labryinth.

(The effect on consciousness is the same if you trace it with a

pencil. Muscle-test TRUE: “That is a mystical truth. No one
knows the reason for it.” The pattern brings a profound sense
of peace. Same with the rosary pattern and prayer wheel.
Muscle-test TRUE: “Each of these things brings about inner
peace.” Not dependent upon belief or being a Buddhist or a

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 Christian. Anybody can have this result. It’s beyond belief
system. It’s a geometric pattern – in mathematics, the Torus.)

89. Do the Rosary

90. Spin the prayer wheel

91. Write a will

92. Take out life insurance

(You have to be real about things. A will and insurance means

that your death will serve as a benefit to someone. If you
don’t have any relatives, you can take out an insurance policy
and leave it to the kitties and doggies at the Humane Society.)

93. Watch TV’s animal channel

94. Bury the hatchet

95. Give up being an adrenaline junkie

96. Quit when you are ahead

97. Let go of greed (rapacious wantingness)

98. Invoke your Buddha-Nature

99. Live in the space beneath thoughts

100. Speak sanely to yourself in the mirror

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101. Talk it over with your therapist or psychologist (Smiles at
Susan: I have a great spouse!)

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