Having inner-peace is necessary to live a truly successful life. After all, what good are favorable circumstances or things, if we can’t enjoy them?

Baby steps toward greater peace and joy:

• Meditate at least once per day, even for five or ten minutes, using a proven technique, and (if possible) with the feeling of gratitude, or devotion in your heart.
• Practice feeling (or visualize/imagine the feeling of) kindness in your heart and allowing it to slowly fill you and then expand beyond your physical body to include others, as a blessing in meditation. Try this also when you are in a store or other public place each day.
• Listen to others with patience and see beyond their faults (as you would your own child or dear friend).
• Perform at least one specific, conscious, personally selected act of service to your fellow beings each day (without seeking any validation or recognition for the act).
• Smile! :-)