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Congratulations

You did the first smart thing of hopefully a lot of smart things. You bought this book.

Be prepared to make changes in your life. And be prepared to work hard. Then, enjoy the results

This book is a sampler of the good things that have made a great difference in my life.

I want you to read the book for your personal enjoyment but also to improve your own quality of life.

Let me first tell you a little about me. This to give you a good picture of who I am and where I have come from.

I have always been a guy that on the outside seemed to have lots of success. I accomplished most of the goals I set for myself. That would be anything from buying a new car, finding a girlfriend, launching a new website, doing heavier exercises in the gym, losing weight, running a marathon, learning a new language … things like that.

These goals were not all easy to reach, and they required hard work and self- motivation to make them happen. Along the way, there were always struggles.

The struggles, I do believe, come to every person on this earth. They might be financial struggles, problems in relationships, problems finding a partner, sickness or even death among family or friends. Throughout my life, I have found ways to handle these struggles, and mostly handle them with a smile.

Me and my Country

I live in a little country in the north of Europe. This is a country with about 5 million inhabitants. We have actually been measured to be the happiest people in the world, so congratulations to us.

This is a country where we go from snow in winter, to nice colors in the spring, to some sun and if we are lucky to some warm days in summer, then to the autumn which is normally gray and takes a long time … and then back to snow. This is to say, we don’t live on the beach everyday.

It´s also a country with high taxes (more than 50 %) and a lot of good care for the single person, provided by the government.

You can drive from one end of the country to the other in only 5 hours.

Back to me

I have always been a guy who wanted to be my best, or actually be the best. This is something that has given me great skills in many things, and also some defeats. Important! I try to learn from it all.

I was brought up in a normal family, had a mom a dad and a smaller brother and a smaller sister. And in many ways this was for a long time a happy life.

Then family problems started and ended up in a divorce and four members of the family changing their last name. The only person keeping his name was my father.

After the divorce, we had no contact with my father, and this is not an issue for me. I know my father has a new family and I hope he lives the best life for him.

Ok now, enough of that part.

More important is, that I quite early I started to imagine things. I started to see and dream what I wanted. I played with these imaginings and had fun with them. I love to lie down and just look up in the sky and imagine everything. I quess you can relate to this. When was the last time you did this?

Then, because of my goal oriented mind about being the best, I often tryed to get my imagination to come true. One time, I imagined I could be the best in handling a European football, you know how many I could juggle without the ball getting to the ground. And then I started to work (maybe I was 10 years old), all my spare time, whenever possible, I just played with the ball and I quickly got better and started to make competitions in school. I ended up with no more kids to beat.

I have lots of these examples.

More about me and imagination

I later started to imagine (this was at the time when girls were more than just something you imagined) that I was very popular and handsome with a great body and a big charming smile—a boy, who would get a lot of attention. I once again painted the picture of what I wanted in my mind—I started to exercise with weights in the gym, and started every day with a big charming smile. I wore clothes that brought me the attention I wanted and I learned a lot about myself and about girls.

The important thing here is, I imagined—I worked hard—I did what I thought was necessary—I succeeded.

Failure is a learning experience

I have also had great downers in my life. I have experienced the loss of people I deeply loved because of death or broken relationships. I have started projects that I dreamed would really make a difference in my financial life, and after lots of hours of work and money spent, I failed. I have had very embarrassing moments in front of many people. Trust me on this one, I do mean embarrassing.

I have had so much stress in my life, that the doctor once ordered me to be in bed and if I didn’t she would see to it, that I kept myself in bed.

I have lived in poverty—I remember some times when I could only afford to eat spaghetti because that was all there was money for. One time, I needed to get beer cans from the street and sell them to by my spaghetti.

I have had the bank calling and telling me I was broke.

I have tried living and partying with the big ones being on top of everything.

I have traveled to lots of great places around the world.

I have started lots of projects, some succeeded and many didn’t.

Me now

I live in the center of the capital of my country. I have a lovely wife from a totally different culture (Brazil) and her two lovely kids 10 and 13 years—also Brazilians. And we have a lovely daughter together who is now 15 months. We are a busy family with always something going on.

I have a great job, and I work many hours a week, by choice. I love working, but I’m planning on getting more time with my family and I will meet this goal to.

I do my running and my weights a couple of time every week. I take my bicycle to work and I live a healthy life. Because I choose to.

Summary

I developed my own style—me being happy and achieving my dreams. And I feel appreciation for being able to share my thoughts and my ideas with you.

Happy Warrior is what this is about. Its not a verification, a test, or anything like that. It’s more like a lifestyle that works for me.

A Warrior (Wikipedia) is a person skilled in combat or warfare.

To me a Warrior is one who trains and trains and trains, both physically and psychologically not to give up, but to win when going into battle. This picture of a great man, who has knowledge, is strong, loves his family, needs to make sacrifices when going to battle, and then goes on to the next one—this is how I picture my life. This is how I live my life.

So imagine your battles. They are all the obstacles we meet—the things that confront us every day. Imagine that you know what you want in your life—dare to dream about it, and know that you can have it if you prepare enough, train enough, fight the beasts (procrastination, depression, negativity, despair and etc.) that pop up their ugly heads all the time. You are a Warrior on a mission.

You are not going to kill anybody (besides the beasts you overcome). No, you are happy—you are on a mission to become a greater man or woman. You are on a mission to live a better life. You are becoming a BETTER YOU.

Imagine, that you do all of this with a smile. Imagine that you have what it takes to succeed. And always look at the bright side of life, finding the positive in any situation. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” - That is my picture of a HAPPY WARRIOR.

And this book is all about the good stuff you can use in your life to become your own HAPPY WARRIOR. I really do wish for you to not only enjoy the reading but to understand the mission and even more important, take action - To make changes to you and for you to get closer to your paradise. Always with a smile on your pretty face. Getting stronger and stronger.

I really wish that you will be your HAPPY WARRIOR - I do really wish this - I know you can.

Yours truly

Michael Morales

HAPPY WARRIOR

Poem:

There once was a cautious man,

who never laughed or cried,

he never cared, he never dared,

he never dreamed or tried,

and when one day he passes away,

his insurance was denied,

for since he never really lived,

they claimed he never really died.