The Zen of Success – Gratitude
Published June 27, 2010 | 
The Successful understand the importance of being thankful for what they have and giving back, in order to tie it all together. Gratitude is often thought of as the antidote to materialism, and while materialism is obsessing on what 
you desire, gratitude is appreciating what you have. Words you will regularly hear The Successful use, many times daily include grateful, thankful, gift, luck, and fortunate.
If you are looking for one key to the Successful that begins to tie everything together, I would have to say it’s that they are truly consciously grateful for all the things they have in their life. Why you might wonder? A grateful person is usually a happy person that finds satisfaction and contentment with the direction of their lives, opposite of the overwhelming emptiness that accompanies only finding short lived happiness in material things. The Successful understand that as you proceed through life, you find your joys in the simplest everyday happenings and events.
They say we receive in kind those things we project into the world around us, be it any kindness, meanness, honesty, or deceit, and through what is 
identified and known as “Karma,” the world has a way of paying us back sometimes many times over, be it good or bad.
Again, repeating the one simple key to the Successful is to be consciously grateful for all of the things you have, and you will find that open and sincere expressions of thankfulness to the Universe or whatever God you believe in for your blessings outwardly changes your demeanor, and alters the way in which you are viewed by others.
A grateful person is usually a happy person, although most of society is taught not to accept the status quo, and strongly believes you can never achieve enough…enough money, enough friends, and enough power. Those that never learn to find the joy in their successes no matter how small will never achieve the balance, fulfillment and happiness in their lives.
As the Successful proceed through life, they learn to find their joys in even the simplest everyday events, and to be thankful for each small victory, each success, and especially for each failure. 
A critical point to learn and understand is that it is those failures that help build strength and character, and allow us to push through and persevere the next time we are faced with failure. Often overlooked, the human spirit has a tremendous ability to forgive, to heal, and to learn, so fill yourself with gratitude, express it openly at every opportunity that presents itself, and watch in amazement as good things begin to come your way.
The Zen of Success – Success and Happiness
Published June 16, 2010 | 
Questions that seem to be a part of our human DNA and exist within each of us throughout our life’s journey are “what is success?” and “how can we achieve success, and happiness?” but, there are also many other questions when dealing with something that should be so simple, yet turns out to be as complex as we choose to make it.
Does success leave you feeling satisfied and sincerely happy, or does it just leave you hungry and striving for more? Some people have difficulty enjoying success because whatever they achieve is not enough for them to be satisfied, and they have a feeling of emptiness or the success is not what they expected and their journey’s quest for their allusive ultimate success never ends, because it’s like fulfilling one desire, only to have 2 more take its place.
You have to learn to understand, define and enjoy your successes as a ‘series of continuous achievements’, and 
success then becomes the results of the embodiment of your life’s work towards reaching the many goals you establish, set, and reach, for if you cannot be at peace with and accept yourself, is it really success, and can you really achieve happiness?
You must also understand it is also in our human DNA that we as social beings need to work with others to achieve a greater level of success than you can reach as only one, so how can you assume to achieve the business and personal success you seek, if we bring to the forefront our pride and ego, and along with it a false feeling of self-sufficiency that makes us unwilling to consciously seek and accept the necessary help of others, and we cut ourselves off from the support, guidance and synergistic process efficiencies their presence can create in the business, while all too often we ultimately doom ourselves to failure at reaching elusive success on our own.
You need to feel that success is not just about yourself, but a team effort, especially in business that more often than not, needs and depends upon others and a complete team harmony to succeed, for example, even if one person succeeds in rowing solo across the Atlantic, they will feel some appreciation for their trainer and the mechanic who helped them prepare for the task.
You must reach the understanding that it is not even slightly possible to do everything on your own, and that when you feel oneness in your collective business efforts with others, you will gain more happiness from your shared series of business achievements and successes, yet if you try to keep all the success just for yourself, you then place unnecessary limits on your potential business growth and greater successes, and ultimately the level of happiness you achieve.
Awesome Happiness Video! Coca-Cola Happiness Machine!
Published January 27, 2010 | 
Team Altman Awesome Happiness Video!
This video is really fun to watch as a Coca-Cola vending machine is transformed into a happiness machine delivering “doses” of happiness, and the spontaneously genuine responses from the people make it well worth watching, and wondering where the happiness will strike next.
As always enjoy, share and Where will the Happiness Strike Next?