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This is slave family monument in Savannah, Georgia in the historic district. This family had no freedom. When you experience anger, fear or guilt and have no remedy for it you become chained to a life of frustration and hopelessness.

What percentage of each day do you need to experience the positive feelings listed on the left side of the table below to feel like life is worth living? Fifty percent of the time? Sixty percent of the time? Eighty percent of the time? Ninety percent of the time? One hundred percent of the time? Remember, you are in control of the feelings you experience. The material in this program is designed to help you identify the thoughts that cause you to experience positive emotions (happiness) and thoughts that cause you to experience negative emotions (misery). This program will help you take control of your conscious thoughts so you can make your life the way you want it to be. This program will explain the six steps you can take to get your life back on track and keep it there.

Positive Emotions
Love	Cheerfulness
Appreciation	Gratitude
Excitement	Hope
Confidence	Joy
Vitality	Peace of mind
Control	P

Negative Emotions
Anger	Inadequacy
Frustration	Rejection
Humiliation	Depression
Disappointment	Fear
Guilt	Worry
Helplessness

These six steps are:

1.	Becoming aware of your feelings
2.	Associating your feelings with your thoughts
3.	Challenging your current beliefs, attitudes, and rules, if necessary
4.	Choosing thoughts that keep you in control and feeling happy
5.	Evaluating the effectiveness of your new choices
6.	Living with renewed confidence that your future will be more exciting and happier

This Web site will examine values and how values influence the decisions people make. For example, if your boss asked you to work three hours after normal quitting time to finish a special project, what would you say? He explains that it's not mandatory and there are other employees that can do the job. And this is the day you promised your daughter that you would take her to the cinema to see a movie. If you decided to stay at work you could not take your daughter to see the movie.

Let's assume that you ranked the following values in this order:

1.	Money
2.	Pleasing the boss
3.	Family

If you valued money and pleasing your boss more than family you would probably stay at work.

What if you ranked these values in this order?

1.	Family
2.	Money
3.	Pleasing the boss

If you valued family over money and pleasing the boss, you would probably take your daughter to the see the movie.

When you log onto this Web site you will learn about the significance of how you rank your values and the consequences that follow decisions you make based on your values. You will learn that every decision you make will have consequences, sometimes good and sometimes bad, in terms of the emotions you experience.

This Web site will help you categorize your thoughts into two lists: thoughts that help you experience happiness, and thoughts that cause you to feel miserable.

THOUGHTS THAT CAUSE MISERY

I need to feel appreciated to be happy.

I have no control over how I feel.

I only feel happy when people respect me.

It's not realistic to think that I can do what I "really" want to do.

Events and circumstances control how I feel.

It doesn't matter how I think about things.

You will learn that you need to stop thinking like this if you want to be happy. To help you understand the importance of challenging thoughts like these a red stoplight will be a reminder to replace these thoughts with thoughts that restore balance in your life.

THOUGHTS THAT CAUSE HAPPINESS

My thoughts control my feelings.

I can say no without feeling guilty.

I don't have to be perfect to feel happy.

I can learn how to take control of my life.

A green stoplight will be your reminder that thoughts like this will help you maintain joy and peace of mind.

This Web site will examine a multitude of other thought patterns that, depending on what they are, will cause you to experience either happiness or misery. It will help you learn how to change thoughts that cause you to feel miserable and to replace them with thoughts that will help you experience happiness.