Authored by William G. DeFoore, Ph.D.
Learn how to find happiness on purpose, every day. It adds enthusiasm, excitement and motivation to your life, which makes everything work better.
Where do you look to find happiness? You can look outside yourself, and sometimes that works really well. Here are some examples:
These all can bring happiness. But no matter what is happening outside you...your happiness comes from inside you! That's right, no matter what happens outside that lights you up, that light...that joy comes from inside.
Think about that for a minute. Whatever happens outside you, the feeling of happiness comes from inside. For example, one person might feel good after a certain movie, but another person might not. In other words, the happiness doesn't come from the movie, it comes from the person.
That's really good news, because it means you don't have to depend on anybody else to make you happy. You were born happy, and you're going to learn how to reconnect with that natural joy you were born with.
This approach is all about freedom and responsibility. You're responsible for your happiness, which means you're also free to do something about it.
So take responsibility and exercise your freedom to be upbeat, enthusiastic and focused every day.
The first step is to decide you want to be happy, and you already did that, or you wouldn't be here. Choosing happiness is not something you do once and then you're done, it's something you do over and over again for the rest of your life.
The next step is to develop a lot of tools and methods that will help you achieve happiness, no matter what is going on in your life. Let's look at some of those now.
You can find happiness:
Start every day with your own routine of creating happiness on purpose, and this will set the tone for the rest of your day. Like a musician tuning her instrument, you will be tuning your body and mind for a day of success and joy.
Here are some things to think about on creating happiness every day:
This is how to find happiness. You can do this. You are capable of mastering these skills. You will run into some barriers and roadblocks along the way, but you'll learn to overcome those also.
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