top 10 Principles of a Happy Life

1. Top 10 Principles of a Happy Life
As an Executive & Life Coach, Leadership Trainer,
Inspirational Orator and Story-Teller, I address and
work with around 2,50,000 people every year. Over
the past two and half decades, I have worked with,
spoken to and touched over 3.0 million people
around the world, with my simple thoughts and ideas
for action to live a happy, positive life. Through my
engagements and interventions with several people
from all walks of life and from different sectors and
strata of society (I take this as a microcosm of the
7.0 billion people living in our world), I have
assumed that 90% of the world has become
existential and do not "feel alive".
Alive is a feeling of living a life with complete
involvement of mind, body, heart and spirit.
Unfortunately with most people, the "Spirit" or what
I call the inner-fire has extinguished and thus people
just live a day to day existence, where they are
walking and talking but are already in the box (The
box being the coffin which we finally go in). My
simple humourous approach is that till we are not in
the box, we need to live a full life and be out of the

2. box for as long as we can.
My purpose in life is to help and encourage people
to unleash 'the hero within' because I trust that there
is a hero, a leader, a champion , a volunteer, a
humane being and a moJOsh Inspirator in each and
all us and that we can all help each other to kindle
and rekindle our inner -fire and be alive. I sincerely
believe that each of us as human beings are blessed
with infinite potential and are immensely gifted.
However, most of us do not open our gifts and
unleash our potential while we are alive on planet
Earth and settle for a life less ordinary. Thus was
born the concept of moJOsh Inspiration which I am
unleashing in a trilogy of personal discovery and
development books which are being published soon.
The first in these series of books is Karishma - The
Miracle. Most people feel that the miracle happens
in some holy place, shrine or ashram without
realizing that the miracle is within us and not in any
holy temple. The temple is our mind, body heart and
spirit and the simplistic concept of moJOsh is as
given below with 10 fulfillment and practical
principles of high energy, positive, content and

3. happy people. Practicing these simple ideas for
action may help each and all of you reading this
piece to unleash your moJOsh and choose to live an
extraordinary life. So here is what moJOsh Inspirator
means:
Fulfillment 1 Seize the day! (Principle-
Gratitude) Most people in our world wake up and
start running because the race has begun with yet
another day to exist routinely. I say NO. Take some
time when you wake up. That should be the highest,
happiest point of your life each day. Let us make the
principles practical. Be grateful that you have woken
up today, because many did not wake up today. Just
this simple thought and idea for action will change
the energy of your day. The very fact that I am alive
today is a moment to rejoice and celebrate my life.
Take life as it comes positively one day at a time,
every day with one simple thought "How can I get
better than what I was, yesterday?" Try It! This
simple idea for action will enable you to unleash
your potential every day!
Fulfillment 2 Unleash my potential everyday!

4. (Principle - Rejuvenation and Continuous
Improvement) I always tell people perfection is a
myth because the day we are perfect is when we are
in the box again. If I am not in the box, then I need
to continuously improve for the better and strive for
excellence. This is the miracle within us. We can
constantly change our game by acting on change,
rather than waiting for change to act on us. We need
to believe in ourselves and become better today to be
more, learn more, do more and contribute more in
the lives of others and for the betterment of
humanity and society.
Fulfillment 3 Live a life of purpose as a purpose
of Life! (Principle - Imagination)Imagine if each
of us over the years and centuries had thought and
acted on one question "How can I leave the world
better than when I came into it?" Then we all would
have a world that was not broken and had a better
world for future generations. We must do this not
because it is altruistic or selfish but because our
children and future generations will also live in the
same world. Thus, if we are creating a legacy of a
better world, it shall benefit our children too. Hence,
making a positive contribution towards a better

5. world is not selfless but selfish as it serves our own
children too.
Fulfillment 4 Who am I? (Principle -
Integrity) Whenever I ask people this question,
most do not know the answer. This one question is a
multi zillion dollar industry and that is the reason
why the world has so many gurus and ashrams. And
like I always joke if any of these gurus can tell you
'who you are' be very careful as they are misleading
you. There is only 1 guru in the world who can tell
you who you are and that guru is YOU! Take 10
minutes every day and 30 minutes every week to
understand your most important roles and
responsibilities. Besides being a child to someone, a
parent, a sibling, a spouse, we also need to fulfill our
roles and responsibilities as citizens and human
beings and have the integrity to fulfill our goals and
responsibilities in our most important roles.
Fulfillment 5 Create SMART Goals! (Principle -
Resourcefulness) Whenever I ask people if they
have a vision and purpose of their life, most say NO.
Vision and purpose give us direction in life to know
where we want to go in our lifetime. The problem

6. with most of the world is that we are running very
fast without knowing where we are going. The day
we discover our purpose, we know what we need to
do in our life and that sets us on the path of self
actualization to realize our goals. Goals must be
SMART- Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Realistic and Time-Bound. If goals are not SMART,
then they may be daydreams or hallucinations and
that will lead to negativity. Set goals that are based
on your responsibilities in each of your most
important roles. Once you have set your goals and
vision, you will be amazed at how your mind finds
the resources to make your dreams and goals come
true. If you can dream it, you can do it. If you cannot
do, then why dream?
Fulfillment 6 Be Happy with what you have!
(Principle - Contentment) All we want is
everything. We want more in our lives without
understanding our needs and thus end up running in
the wrong direction and living other people's lives.
We must map our needs and create our own desires
rather than desiring what is advertised or what the
neighbor has. A lot of people had mistaken
happiness for all their materialistic possessions.

7. Happiness is never in the materialistic things, but is
inside out. If we do not understand what makes our
hearts and lives content and map our needs then we
are always miserable desiring for more and wanting
more and in the process we make ourselves
miserable. This is dysfunctional because then we fail
to enjoy the present and what we have.
Fulfillment 7 Learn from suffering and adversity!
(Principle - Passion) There is not a single person in
the world, who is bereft of suffering and adversity.
Each person has his share of suffering and pain and
hence in a way we all break at sometime and are
broken people. When we break, most break-down,
only some break- through. That is passion. Passion
finds its origin in the Latin Word "Pati", which
means suffering. If we are not ready to suffer for
someone or something, then we are not passionate
about it. Hence, the saying "No Pain, No Gain". If
you are really passionate about your life, your work,
your relationships, then you are ready to suffer and
struggle to make them work and will go through the
mill to find a way and make things happen.
Suffering and pain are essential in life and we as
humans are gifted that even in our most depressing

8. moments of life, we can become positive by simply
thinking about the highest points in our life. Let's try
this! Please close our eyes and think of a high point
in your life and you will notice your spirit soaring.
Fulfillment 8 Trust and Respect the self and
create a positive aura around you! (Principle-
Dignity) A lot of people in the world lack trust and
self - respect. One can only respect others when one
respects the self. When we do not respect ourselves,
we end up doing things which are wrong, dishonest
and harmful towards the self and others. When one
has robust self respect, one always does right and
treats the self and others with dignity. Dignity,
respect and trust for the self are priceless and no
money or power in the world can get one that. One
has to earn it and inspire it and can get it only by
doing right. Once we trust and respect the self and
have our own dignity, no external force can create
any negativity for us because we become strong and
robust inside- out.
Fulfillment 9 Learn to be light hearted! (Principle
- Humour) The problem with a lot of people in our

9. world is that they lack sense of humour. They take
life too seriously and never see the lighter side of
life. There is an old saying, "Do not take life too
seriously, you will never get out of it alive anyway".
While it is important to have our purpose and vision
of life, we must learn to take things in our day to day
life with a grain of humour and a pinch of salt. We
must learn to laugh at ourselves, we must learn to
make light of day to day situations and we must
understand that every human being has his own pain
and suffering just like me so how can we learn to
connect and have a few light hearted moments.
Fulfillment 10 Be kind to yourself and to others!
(Principle- Compassion) One of the biggest
concerns which most people have is the feeling of
bitterness and resentment within. People have just
not learnt how to let go, forgive and let be. Most
take their bitterness and resentment to their graves
without realising that all their bitterness never even
affected the other person and only poisoned the self.
We must learn to forgive and let go. We must learn
to be kind to ourselves and compassionate with
others for all their resentment and bitterness that

10. they hold within. We must enable them also to let go
and get free from the resentment that is poisoning
them. This in turn would create a lot of positivity
within us to battle the negativity from outside. We
are surrounded by negative news, negative people,
negative situations and a lot of negativity, but when
we are kind to ourselves and also see others kindly
we enable the positivity within to battle all the
negativity that surrounds us.
These are my 10 fulfillment and I assure you that if
you practice these, you would be taking the first step
towards the journey to unleash your infinite potential
and positive aura and thus also become a moJOsh
Inspirator. I wish you all a very happy 2016 and a
great life ahead.
- Jeroninio 'Jerry' Almeida is the author of Karma
Kurry bestselling book series which has inspiring
true stories of real heroes.