Here are 12 steps to seizing your happiness everyday:
1. Choose To Be Happy
Happiness is a choice. It doesn’t happen by accident. You decide every day whether you are going to be happy. Nothing outside of yourself can change that unless you choose for it to. Be positive about yourself and your life. Don’t let issues or problems alter your happiness for that day. Treat everyday as a gift that you may not get tomorrow and make the most of it. Make everyday the best day of your life. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”3. Change Negative Thinking
We are our own worst critics sometimes. When our inner critic raises his head, push it back down and tell it to shut up and sit down. Beating yourself up does not solve the issues or complexities in your life, nor do they contribute to the solution. If anything, those negative thoughts hold you back and keep you from your happiness.4. Forgive and Forget
Holding onto a grudge does nothing to fix a bad situation and only reminds you of the hurt. Holding onto a grudge just hurts you over and over again without actually changing the person who hurt you. Let it go and move on with your life. Stop dwelling on those old hurts and let them heal with time. Forgiveness is a sweet gift of freedom for yourself, and not necessarily for the other person.5. Be Grateful
No matter how little you have or how much you think your life sucks right now, there are always things to be grateful for. Find those things and embrace them like your life depended on it. Recognizing things in your life that are good, beneficial or that make you happy and accepting them will raise your happiness level. When you are grateful, you do not dwell on that which you lack but on that which you have in abundance.6. Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Money can buy you pleasures but not happiness. Pleasure is temporary
and does not fill that hole inside. No amount of money can replace true
happiness and contentment. Chasing money is an endless race with no
finish line. Focus less on what you can’t have and more on what you do
have.
7. Build Friendships
Friendships are the bedrock of real happiness. They
will lift you up when you can’t get up yourself. Together you all can
achieve what none of you can achieve alone. Build on existing
friendships and cultivate new ones. Find friends you can talk to and do
things with. A single stick can be broken but a bundle of them cannot.
Find strength and resilience together and you can never be broken.
8. Take Part in Meaningful Activities
Stop being a couch zombie and go do something worthwhile with your
time. If it was your last day on Earth, would you really want to catch
up on a television show? Go do something new, go find your own
adventure. Go venture into nature and enjoy the beauty of this life.
9. Don’t Compare Yourself To Others
Social media only shows you the highly cherry-picked aspects of someone’s life. You never really get to see the nitty gritty of the daily grind. Stop comparing yourself to other people’s highlight reel. Go out there and make a highlight reel of your own. Go do things that make you feel happy not what you think other people will think is awesome.10. Be Kind To Others
Be kind to others and they will be kind to you. Bring happiness to someone who needs it and you will find yourself sharing in their happiness. Happiness is contagious and you could be a carrier if you really wanted to be. So go spread some love. There is a rewarding feeling of gratitude when you do things for someone who doesn’t expect them.Related article: 10 Things Happy People Do Differently
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