Although there are people who are chemically depressed, which means that they are depressed for no reason, happiness is a choice for most of us. Happiness is gained by doing, not by thinking. When you begin to think whether youre happy or not, you are no longer happy. You are happy only as long as you dont think, just do, and eventually youll be happy. Below are seven steps or keys to happiness. Remember, in order for any of these techniques to work you must actually be bold and try to do them. Again, they will not work through intellectualization because once you begin to intellectualize whether youre happy or not, you are no longer happy for you lost that elusive moment of happiness which you may have had. So work hard at these steps, practice them all at once, practice them one at a time if you want to, but be bold, and practice them to transform your life. 1. Smile Smile right now. No matter what youre doing, or what youve been through today, you feel a lot better now because you smiled. Smiling is a huge turn-on to people, it makes you and others feel good. However, thats not all, smiling projects an aura of self-confidence. It tells people, Im in charge of myself and therefore I want to make you feel better. If you want people to come to you, project a healthy smile at all times. Even when youre sad, fake it. Your brain cant tell the difference between a fake smile and a real smile, you will become happier automatically when you smile. 2. Be bold. Always remember Goethes quote, boldness has genius, power and magic in it. When you are bold and go after what you want with reckless abandonment, magical forces come together to create a series of coincidences to make your dreams become a reality. If you arent bold, then theres no hope for you you wont reach your hopes and dreams. Be bold at all times and you will eventually reach your hopes and dreams. 3. Exercise Exercising releases endorphins which make you happy. Any type of exercise is fine, treadmill, weights, dancing, etc. Just as long as you do it and enjoy it. Then be bold, a bit more magic will begin to occur, as happiness will mysteriously strike your life. Of course, you know that they are not coincidences that you had to perform the magical tricks, or boldness to make these coincidences become a reality in your life. 4. Be in the present moment As far as youre concerned, only the present moment exists, as its the only moment you can do anything about. Yesterday and tomorrow are out of your control at the present time. Only today can be changed, so its the only thing that matters. When you concentrate on yesterday or tomorrow, you stifle your ability to take advantage of the present moment which you can change. Moreover, the present moment has magic in it, as well. 5. Have confidence You now know that smiling portrays a feeling of self-confidence. However, there are also other factors that show that youre confident. Any positive interaction you can have with people portrays confidence. This means doing things that make the other person feel comfortable. This includes smiling as mentioned earlier, but it also includes making eye contact, and nodding your head when somebody is talking to you. Any positive interaction you can have with a person raises your self-esteem and your confidence level, as well. It shows you that you can interact with people and get the most out of conversations. Confidence is also gained by all the steps covered here: being in the present moment, exercising, being bold, etc. Happiness is a domino effect, if youre happy (perhaps by making yourself feel happy through smiling), other people will see that youre happy and will want to join in on your party. If you let them join your party, you will become even happier. When youre confident, no matter how much nonsense you may say, people will still listen to you a lot more than if you were to say something profound but you were to say it with a lack of confidence. In summary, confidence gives you power over yourself, and having power over yourself brings you happiness. 6. Have a positive attitude Your outside is a reflection of your inside. If you are positive on the inside, your outside will appear as a positive world. If you are negative on the inside, the outside will seem gloomy. The point of all of this is that you should work on the inside, your attitude, and eventually your outside will seem bright. Your attitude determines your altitude. You can only go as high as determined by how positive your attitude is. If you have a positive expectancy inside that things are going to go well for you, good fortune will soon come to you. If the opposite is true, you have a negative expectancy, then negative events will keep reoccurring in your life. 7. Dont take things personally There is only one perfect way to deal with people who tease you or put you down: do absolutely nothing. If you take it personally, and get aggressive, then they will find more ways to put you down, and you will become very unhappy. You try to punch them, and you sink down to their level. However, if you dont take things personally, instead, be quiet and let them speak their nonsense, they will soon become baffled. They will look and feel dumb as they will have nothing more to say (that anyone will hear) and eventually they will have to shut up. Its like a class clown who eventually shuts up when nobody is laughing. Doing this avoids conflict and solves the whole problem without any effort being expended on your part and plenty of energy being expended on theirs. Understand that they themselves must have low self-esteem if they feel that they have to put somebody down in order to make themselves feel better. If you feel bad, and retaliate, then you are showing them that you have low self-esteem yourself, again, but it bears repeating, you will sink down to their level. For if your self-esteem is high and youre happy, you wont care what anybody else says because you will be happy no matter what. Always remember Abraham Lincolns quote, people are only as happy as they make up their minds up to be. --- So there you have them, those are the seven steps to happiness. Hopefully you realize, from these seven steps, becoming happy is a lot easier than we think. Just getting in the habit of smiling all day will increase your happiness tremendously. The problem for most of us is that we get lazy and expect the world to cater to our needs. Thats never going to happen because everybody else wants their own needs catered to. Therefore, we must become happy ourselves, so we can radiate energy to help other people. You can only become truly happy by yourself, and then be able to radiate your happiness to other people to make them happy. In other words, nobody can make you feel happy, but yourself. Your outside is a reflection of your inside, if youre not happy inside, the outer world will be gloomy. You have to make yourself happy, then you can cater the world to other people, and become even happier by making other people happy. |
