Aristotle, one of the greatest intellectual minds that the Western world has ever known, once said that happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Self Inflicted Stress, the killer of happiness
As the saying goes, "Life Happens!", but we believe that most people are naturally happy and typically rebound from those unexpected and sometimes traumatic "Life" experiences. However, there seem to be those who are unhappy most of the time, which we believe is due to choices that they have made resulting in "self-inflicted" stress and discomfort.

Our experience says that the three most common sources of Self-Inflicted Stresses are Debt, Doubt, and the resulting Discouragement (the 3-D's). We call them Self-Inflicted because they tend to only exist in one's life only if one allows them to be there.

Pleasure Seeking vs Happiness
We also believe that one doesn't actually “find” happiness because happiness is not something that is lurking in the bushes hiding from us. We believe that what we have to find is "HOW" to be happy and that happiness is a natural state of mind that happens when we remove Self-Inflicted stresses from our lives and pursue worthwhile activities.

It is important to understand that there is a "fake happiness" derived from the "euphoria" that pleasure gives us. This false happiness is like a drug and requires more and more of it in order to maintain that feeling of pseudo-happiness. In fact, pursuing pleasure literally can lead to addictions.

Please don’t misunderstand us, there is nothing wrong with pleasure when it is accompanied by good things like a family meal, a movie with a loved one, or being intimate with one’s spouse. Pleasures enjoyed as the "side-affects" of moral, ethical, and loving situations are “frosting on the cake”, but never the main course.

However, seeking pleasure, for pleasure's sake, will never bring happiness and typically results in Doubt, Debt, and Discouragement. The good news is that we have proven programs and tools to help you to take control of the 3-D's and learn how to be happy!