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The Grand Final of awesomeness has at last arrived: the final five tips to a happier life are on the table.


Is my inner most really always happy? And if yes, why am I not happy myself all the time? Are people born happy is happiness rather a temporarily achievement, maybe even an illusion we chase, like the end of a rainbow? Getting a little philosophical here. Let's leave this open for now and move on to more pressing issues, shall we?






As a consultant you will actually literally 'each day (yes; and yes, even then) give (your results are sold for top money) something good (value) to others (your client)'. There will be rare occasions, when you don't really have tight deadlines or any urgent deliverables pending on your input. Use those rare opportunities wisely and enjoy these moments of calm. These moments will be rare and they will not last long.


I might be able to think of a few areas, where that proposition is contraproductive. Competitive athletes train every day to push their limits. Conpetition in business pushes innovation and progress. Sometimes you have to explore and doubt those limits. As a consultant it is your job to question limits. People usually think in terms of restrictions and boundaries all the time. Some you will have to accept. Some however are not real. They are the result of lacking imagination and creativity, ignorance, or plain phantasies. As a consultant it is an important part of your job to tell the difference between boundaries that are real and ones that are not. Concerning your own limits, you'll have plenty of opportunity to find out about them, sometimes even to redefine them.


And who am I supposed to thank if I awake in the night? And what if I don't awake alife, what if i awake dead? 
This is such a nobrainer of an advice, I strongly suspect it is a gap-filler. In consulting, avoid gap-fillers under any circumstances. If you have 39 instead of 40 awesome advice, then make it 39. If you have only one, then make it exactly one. Don't even think about trying to fool your customer or making up some BS in order to camouflage a lack of analysis or thouroughness. Lipstick on a pig is bad advice. Do your homework properly and if you haven't, no matter the reason, be plain about it. The only thing worse than a disappointed customer is a disappointed customer, who feels cheated or ripped off.


Yes, really do. I support that first part 100%. Love yourself! You have to respect and love yourself first, before you can respect, love and cherish anyone else. It is not even nessecary to give any reason for it. And of course every human being is unique and wonderful, what a tautology. More important: every human longs and deserves to be respected, maybe even loved. If you love yourself, then follow Kant's cathegoric imperative and treat your fellow humans with the same dignity, you expect to be treated yourself with.
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