Meredith Forder

About Meredith Forder

After suffering significant heartache and loss in her twenties, Meredith travelled to India to learn the meaning and purpose of life. The years spent in India, studying their culture and philosophy, set the foundation for Clear Thinking. Meredith now spends her time helping people discover their purpose and realise their potential, so that they can live happy and fulfilled lives. http://clearthinking.org.au/meredith-forder/

7 Ways to Be Happy at Work

Happy at WorkThe people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

Do you remember the first day you started your job—how excited you were—how you woke up early, prepared yourself ahead of time, dressed immaculately, and felt fully charged like you were about to conquer the world?

Now how do you feel?

In between all the changes and challenges that have happened recently, do you feel as if all your energy and enthusiasm has been drained? Do you feel deflated and defeated? If you do, then try implementing a few of the following strategies: they are bound to recharge your battery and make you feel happy at work again. [Read more...]

Don’t Worry, Be Happy Now

Don't Worry Be HappyWorry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~Leo Buscaglia 

How much time do you spend worrying? Do you worry about every little thing? Your work? Your family? Your health? Your finances? Your reputation?

How different would your life be if you didn’t worry about the things you cannot change and focused on the things you can?

Suddenly your life would transform after realising that:

  • You cannot change the past, you can only learn from it.
  • You cannot change the future, you can only plan and prepare for it.
  • And you definitely cannot change other people, you can only change yourself. [Read more...]

7 Habits of Unhappy People and How to Overcome Them

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~Anthony de Mello …

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. You can be a prisoner of your own mind—your own emotions and thoughts. And that is the worst kind of prison, because nobody can help you, unless you are prepared to help yourself.

Even if you are happy most of the time, in those moments when you are unhappy chances are that one of the following will be the cause of it.

Habit # 1. Doubting yourself

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.” ~Honore de Balzac

It is a well known fact that what you think you become. This means that if you keep doubting yourself, one day you will become the person you believe yourself to be. [Read more...]

Be a Giver, Not a Taker

Be a Giver, Not a TakerHappy are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

Many years ago when I was in my early 20′s, and well before I went to India, I was self-conscious and self-obsessed. My only concern was myself and my mother—my father had passed away. So it was all about me. Me, me, me and nothing else.

I was a taker, not a giver. The only time I gave was when I was sure that there was something in it for me. As a result, I was pathetic and miserable!

Back then it never occurred to me to correlate my unhappiness with selfishness. Why would it? It didn’t occur to me that I was selfish! It’s only now, after years of study, that I realise that there is a direct connection between selfishness and unhappiness. [Read more...]

The Desire To Make a Difference

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ~Helen Keller

How has January 2013 been for you? Are you off to a good start? Is everything going as you had planned? Or are things looking worse than you had hoped?

For me it has been interesting. You could say that it started last year when Paul (my husband) and I went skiing in Japan for two weeks. Or you might say it started last May when Paul took a week off work to take care of me after surgery.

Whenever it was, we were led to believe that he had leave up his sleeve. However, when he returned to work in May last year, “the computer said no!” There was no more leave! [Read more...]

7 Steps To Success With Soul

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” ~Albert Schweitzer 

Why does anyone start a business? Answer: To be successful. Nobody starts a business to become a failure. Yet success today is frowned upon, by many people, because of its association with greed.

But is that success? Is being rich and famous, or writing a best-seller, or building a huge empire… Is that success? Is having loads of money so that you can indulge in sense gratification. Is that success? If it is, then it’s pretty shallow.

I’d like to think that success is something more than that. So I’ve given it some thought and outlined 7 steps that will help you achieve true success – success with soul. [Read more...]

10 Things To STOP Doing To Be Happy

Joy“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~Carl Bard

Imagine you are 85. You’re looking back at your life wondering what you have achieved. Now ask yourself this question, “Am I happy?”

If your answer is “No,” then you’re probably regretting the things you should have done, like pursuing your passion and living your dream. Or spending more quality time with your loved ones.

But there’s no use regretting, or wishing you could get those moments back. What’s done is done. [Read more...]