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Mary Ann’s journey of understanding happiness and positivity started several years ago after she sold her business in San Francisco and moved to Southern California. Her daughter had just started preschool and after years of having no time of her own, Mary Ann had time to do anything she wanted. Most of us think that that would make us happy. But because of the way she had lived her life, full of work, projects, friends, and accomplishments, she was not comfortable with the spare time and loss of identity. She joined “mommy groups”, worked on fund raisers, volunteered for the school and other charities. Yet, as she described it later, she was “flat-lining”. She spent most of her time irritated, moody and dead tired.
Mary Ann asked for answers within the health community. Depending on the specialty of the Doctor, she received different advice. Psychiatrists wanted to dispense anti depressants. Psychologists wanted prolonged psycho therapy. Hormone clinics wanted to give hormone shots and drugs. Naturopathics prescribed healthy, organic, herbal remedies. Friends said it was nothing more than a mid life crisis. Whatever the cause - identity, hormone, menopause, midlife crisis – Mary Ann soon realized that the specialists and their remedies weren’t going to cure her malaise.
Ask the Universe for what you need and the answers will often come in magical and mysterious ways. So it did the day Mary Ann was introduced to Dr. William Kent Larkin. Yale and Harvard educated PhD in Psychology and Religion, he also spent years studying and teaching positivity for years. Dr. Larkin started recommending books. She started reading voraciously. One book lead to another and another.
She read Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csiksentmilhalyi, David Burns, Katie Byron, Buddha, Roger Walsh, Jonathan Haidt, Sonya Lyubomirsky, Chris Peterson, Ed Diener, Esther Hicks, Dalai Lama, Nathaniel Brandon, George Vaillant, Donald Clifton, Tom Rath, Marcus Buckingham, Bruce Lipton, Jeffrey Schwartz, Barbara Frederickson, David Cooperrider, Louise Hay, and Tal Ben Shahar just to name a few.
She fell in love with the authors. As she says, “Their dedication and a lifetime commitment to this business of happiness are truly remarkable. I am so grateful to be able to reap the benefits of their 20 to 40 years of research in a few days of reading just one of their books.”
It was during her research on happiness and positivity that Mary Ann realized that she wasn’t alone. That millions of us suffer from depression and negativity which adversely affect our personal and work lives.
When asked, “So where has the four years of work with Dr. Larkin and the Applied Neuroscience Institute and the thousands of hours of research taken you?” Mary Ann will say, “My journey has taken me to a truly magnificent place; a place of love, peace, joy and gratitude without drugs or long hours of meditation. Along the way, I also found my meaning of life which I now know is an important ingredient in the formula for happiness and positivity. I learned that all of the knowledge in the Universe, cannot bring happiness. Knowing is not being. Happiness comes from the mind not from things or events. To achieve enduring happiness we must use tools to change our view of ourselves and the world in a positive and permanent way.” This has become my mission and goal; to develop the tools of positivity; the techniques and mental exercises, that if done with dedication, will produce a positive and lasting state of “being” for anyone who is willing to dedicate the time and effort to allow happiness and positivity to consume their life.”
“I also learned that positivity increases productivity. Positive employees are more creative, more open to change, and willing to take on more challenges. I realized that I could help my clients find and hire positive, productive employees, and teach existing employees positivity!”
“So we started Truex Metier (www.TruexMetier.com) whose mission is to teach the tools necessary to achieve a permanently happier and more positive state of being and to help our clients find and hire more positive employees.
Mary Ann Cullens
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