The world is already increasing in vexation and cruelty that if you wait for a perfect condition to be happy, then you wait for long. In life, we have the responsibility to create our own happiness. Happiness is not necessarily a result of what you have or do not have, neither should it be based on your expectations, status, background etc, but it is a function of the choice that you have made. You will agree with me that if you are looking for reasons to be unhappy, you will see plenty of them. In the same way, if you are looking for reasons to be happy, you will also see tonnes of them. The choice is yours.
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The person you see as being happy is not because everything is perfect for the person, neither is it because the person does not have challenges, but because they made a choice. It is worthy to note that no one is born with the exclusive gift of being happy, neither is anyone born being sad. Your happiness (or lack of it) is essentially a product of choice. There are workouts that can help someone to increase their level of happiness and we will look into them.
Count your blessings: If you will be able to count the good things of life that you have experienced, you will be amazed at how blessed you are. There are things that many people may not consider as blessings but they are major blessings. Take the gift of life for instance. That you are alive should form the basis of your happiness. There are many people that have died that would have gladly chosen to have the challenges that you are facing and be alive. No matter what you think you need, life is the ultimate and as long you have it, there is hope. If only you will be able to count your blessings, you cannot but stay happy.
Be contented with life and with what you have: One of the major things that make people unhappy is comparison. When you compare others to yourself, you may start to think that everyone else is making progress while you are not, meanwhile you may be the one that is actually making the progress. In this age of social media, many people tend to flaunt material possessions online and some other tend to live fake and borrowed lifestyle. If you judge your own progress by what you see online, you will become unhappy. Just know that you are making progress in your own way, so be contented with that. The more contented you are with life, the happier you become.
Set realistic goals: It is very common to hear motivational speakers and others talking about setting goals to spur you to actions. They will tend to give you reasons why setting huge goals is needed for success. It is true, however one should understand that no human is omnipotent and no one is invincible. That is, every human has obvious strengths and weaknesses. So while setting goals, you should set something that is attainable, because setting an impossible goal may mean that it cannot be attained, and it may make you unhappy when you do not attain it. But when you set goals and attain them, there is an inner feeling of happiness that is released in you. You can even set micro dreams alongside your major dreams and achieving such micro dreams will set the precedence for the actualization of the major one and will also keep your level of happiness high.
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- Make others happy: If you see the person that constantly makes others happy, they too are also happy. To reap happiness, you should also be an agent of happiness. That is, you have to sow happiness. You will agree with me that a pipe cannot be used to supply water and be dried at the same time. In the same way, if you seek for the happiness of others, you too will be happy. When you smile to others, there is a tendency that they will smile back at you. In the same say, when you create a happy environment for others around you, you also will partake of the happiness.
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