Above anything else, regardless of who you are, what you do, what you’ve accomplished, what absolutely everyone from all walks of life wants and aims for is happiness. Other than good health, we all want to be happy, to feel good about ourselves.
Many will make it a personal journey on this simple quest to capture more happiness in their lives.
Yet despite the wealth of information available, there is no single recipe for happiness to be found, that you can blend together to produce more joy.
It’s rather more a culmination of our lives, the fragments of the shaping of our childhood.
Combine that with the different biological mixture of our unique set of IQ and EQ, our support system and life experiences.
Being happy is also thought to be a habit, so the good news is it can be harvested, learned, and then implemented.
Sharpen And Train Your Brain
Continue to keep your mind sharp, as we humans are hardwired to experience new and exciting challenges.
Continue to do all those stimulating positive activities which places you in an active state of flow.
What doing so does is brings you closer to realizing your goals, while staving off boredom.
Train your brain to actively adopt new healthy mental and lifestyle habits, which are found integral for life satisfaction.
Activities can include practising mindfulness by force feeding positive thoughts, meditation, all which improves your mood and your well-being.
Happiness Isn’t About Fame And Fortune
Most think it’s gaining success, the financial accumulation and the trapping of it, is the formula for happiness.
There are many however who ends up suffocating their health and moral belief systems while doing so.
As a result, most who are successful and self-made millionaires aren’t overly joyous.
It’s found lottery winners aren’t any happier after their initial money windfall, as it’s known most will return back to their state of boredom within a year.
But don’t allow that to stop you from creating hope, so keep playing your lottery numbers.
Happiness Doesn’t Have An Users Guide
Some prefer chunky peanut butter while others prefer smooth, which just about settles the argument about the nature of selection of choice, on what makes someone tick.
What’s known is everyone has their own nuances, when it comes to they experiencing happiness.
There’s no step by step blueprint you can follow to bottle giddiness. There’s no formula X, followed by process Y, to find bliss.
It’s found the pursuit of happiness isn’t a passive process nor a destination, but rather an ever changing state of mind.
Today you might enjoy chunky but who knows, you might switch to smooth next year.
Always Be Smiling
This is when all the childhood memories come flooding back, as mom would always tell you to smile, to turn that frown upside down.
They do so in the attempts to snap you out of whatever funk that possessed you as a child.
What’s known for certain is smiling dissolves stress and anxiety, burns away sadness.
While it’s extremely difficult to smile in the face of doom, defeat, or stressful situations, what studies show is finding humour in everything fortifies our health.
When recovering from any type of stressful situation, it’s found those who smiled or laughed about it had lower heart rates than those frowning.
Embracing Gratitude
Common wisdom dictates it’s the aftereffects of happiness which makes us more grateful, which always isn’t the case. The key to gratification is to count your blessings, not your burdens.
What’s been studied was the effects of someone with a grateful outlook on life, and the results it had on their well-being.
The findings revealed that an intentional focus on gratification did was it improved mood, coping skills, emotional and physical well-being. So don’t be afraid to be thankful.
Avoid Mean People
Avoid the egoistical, narcissistic, those mean spirited people among us, you know who they are, avoid them like the plague.
What studies show is however pessimism, hate, and abusive violent behaviour is on the rise, while empathy appears on the decline.
What the spread of negativity can do is affect you, bring you down like a disease.
There are some who lives their lives with the agenda of tearing people down, turning on you for their own interests, much like a virus you need to avoid.
Always Be Honest By Telling The Truth
The truth never lies, everything’s either fact or false, and you know what’s what. Always honour to tell the truth, regardless of how difficult or hurtful it may be.
Invariably, you will come out ahead, although there may be lessons to be learned first.
One of the best things you can do for yourself, is make a sacred vow to always tell the truth, be honest regardless of the consequences.
This starts with always being truthful with yourself first. Then preach others to be honest with themselves at all times.
What’s found however, is most have a difficult time getting through even just a 10-minute conversation without telling a lie at least twice.
Telling lies drains out our energy, as the stress compounds. What telling the truth does is reduces anxiety while increasing authenticity.
Look Forward To Growing Older
To lay the foundation for your golden years, is like sipping a fine wine where it gets better and refined. The good news being what age gracefully develops is happiness.
The key is planning for retirement when younger, as our perception grows once we begin to age.
Although there are certain amounts of distress associated with growing old that’s inevitable, such as worsening health, aches, pains, and the loss of loved ones and friends.
What’s found is those who are older, generally have learned to be more refined and content with what they’ve learned in their life.