What Makes You Happy?
As you
look over your life, do you ask yourself what makes you happy? We often spend a
lot of our day “in the pursuit of happiness,” but do we ever find it or are we
on a fruitless road to nowhere when we seek to find it?
Some people
try to find money in wealth, others in possessions. Some seek their happiness
in their husband or wife or their children. Every day, women around the world
go in search of happiness by indulging in “retail therapy. For others, that
decadent box of chocolates represents happiness. Men might be smiling at those
images, yet how many men have to have their night out with the boys or their
weekend golf game.
We
probably all smile at thinking of the times when we have told others of the
things that have made us happy, yet inside we all know that most of the time,
anything we do to try to achieve happiness is going to be momentary. People will let us down, chocolate will make
us fat and possessions just never seem enough.
We won’t
find happiness if we look for it outside our own self. We will never be content
unless we first find contentment within ourselves and the world we live in each
day. Here are some thoughts that will help you discover how to be content and
achieve happiness.
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·
Don’t spend money to find
happiness. You will never
be happy if you think money can buy happiness, or that happiness lies in
possessions. It just leads to discontentment
·
Don’t worry about the future: Your happiness is available to you today.
Many people live in the hope that tomorrow they will be happy. Expect happiness
can be yours today.
· Find your happiness in
believing: For many
people, this belief is in God or a supreme being, but for others it’s found in
believing in something. Life without belief is a life without hope.
· Look at others who are in a
worse situation than you and be thankful for what you have. Contentment and gratitude are the easiest
paths to inner happiness.
·
You need to want to be happy.
Someone wisely said once
“He is not happy who does not want to be happy”
·
Help Others... Their pleasure and appreciation will
increase your own happiness
In
addition, be happy... True happiness lies in those three small words. Being
happy is a choice. not a pursuit!
