There are lots of great sites on the internet and we will share them.

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In this video Goodwin shares those insights and you will get a lot from watching.

Other information from around the web by and about Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Fourth Lincoln Douglas Debate – House Divided is a great place to learn more about the Lincoln Douglas Debates. Through the Lincoln Douglas Major Topic Page, you can search by different events, such as by individual debates. One such debate was the fourth, …

• Teddy’s Goodbye – Swampland – TIME.com – “He would’ve adored it,” said historian Dorris Kearns Goodwin. “You would have heard him bellowing at the end, ‘YAY’” she added pumping her small fist. John Podesta cried during Ted Kennedy Jr.’s remembrance.
• TEDTalk – Doris Kerns Goodwin on Two Presidents – No wonder Obama is so drawn to Kerns Goodwin’s Lincoln. This talk really made me think about whether or not I am heading down Lincoln’s path or LBJ’s.
• The Book List – … A Portrait of An Artist (Georgia O’Keefe) by Laurie Lisle; The Women’s Room Marilyn French; Sarum by Edward Rutherford; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kerns Goodwin;
• Historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin – Goodwin, an expert on presidential politics, is the author of several books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an award-winning author and historian.

Goodwin went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow in 1967 during the Johnson administration, working as his assistant and with his memoirs. In 1975 she married Richard N. Goodwin, who had worked in the Johnson and Kennedy administration as an adviser and a speechwriter. Goodwin taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency.

Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During World War II”. Goodwin received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College in 1998. Goodwin won the 2005 Lincoln Prize (for best book about the American Civil War) for “Team of Rivals”, a book about Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Cabinet.

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JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.

That quote from The Joseph Campbell Foundation is remarkable.  It says to me that God put an inner compass in each of us and that compass is bliss.

In The Secret, In The Science of Getting Rich, and anywhere that the Law of Attraction is discussed they speak of gratitude and getting your emotions involved in the vision you create.  They are all speaking of bliss though not quite as eloquently as Joseph Campbell.  You should have joy in your life… you know your whole life long, it whatever it is you are doing, you are seeking happiness.  Sometimes what we perceive in our conscious mind as happiness is warped from what our inner compass says, yet we are seeking happiness.

The trick is to move past those screams of consciousness and listen to the bliss within.  The bliss is our compass in life and it is not deflected by the magnetizing affects of the world around us.  If we bring a compass near a magnet it will no longer point North.  Our bliss is the joy within and it always points to our true North we need only follow it.

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In a magic show the illusionist keeps your focus on one hand while he is making something else seem to disappear with the other.  In life if you are so focused on the sadness then your happiness will seem to disappear.  Is there a magician that you are allowing to control your focus?  Who or what would you give such power to?

It’s time for a musical interlude with Barbra Mandrell.

“Sittin’ on the front porch the rain is pourin’ down, news comes on the radio there’s trouble all around, but that’s the way it’s always been and the way it will always be…”   –Barbra Mandrell In Times Like These.

The lyrics have it down like Dickens… it’s the way it’s always been and the way it will always be…  It’s the best and the worst.

A lot of people are getting rich, a lot of people are happy, a lot of people are making plans, a lot are moving their lives forward.  It doesn’t matter what the times are, just look to the things you want to do and start moving, start taking action.  Get your focus off whats wrong and on to what you are going to do next.  See it’s good outcome.

Don’t let the magician keep you focused on something else while he hides your happiness.  Keep your eyes on your happiness…  Can you see it?

In Times Like These, indeed.

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What brings you happiness? What brings satisfaction? Are the two related?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.  –Albert Schweitzer

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.  –Anne Frank

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  –Helen Keller

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.  –Henry David Thoreau

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.  –Denis Waitley

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