For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.