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How to be Truely Happy
C.Jones
Life isn't always a bowl of cherries. Sometimes it can feel like all you get is the pits. When I feel that way I like to read up on people who live interesting and wonderful lives to find some inspiration. I often ask myself "How did their life become so admirable?", "How do they manage to stay positive despite setbacks?" After observing many different successful people I figured out that they have all worked on their 'self'.
How do you find genuine happiness? Step 1 is to love yourself.
Loving means accepting. Accept that you are not a perfect being, realize that behind what you percieve as imperfections you have a great deal of courage to be able to improve you ability to recover from your mistakes and learn from them.
Happiness also pertains to being contented. When you can be contented with all the things you now have, you allow yourself to be happy.
Life is about finding out what works for you, and what brings you hapiness. Trying and failing, winning and losing, these are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure happens to everyone, the people who are successful are the ones who keep trying. Failure should never hinder you from being happy. Let it go, knowing that something better awaits you.
Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the hottest Formula 1 car, nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the highest 13th month pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes, the most sought after prizes in life do not go to the fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best. So, how do you become genuinely happy? Every one has his own definition of ‘happiness’. Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success. So, really now, what will make you become genuinely happy? Simple. You don’t have to have the best things in this world. Its about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self “Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you are developing strong will power to persevere.
You possess a willingness to stand up again and try – that will make you a genuinely happy person.
When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass step 1 in the project “how to become genuinely happy”.For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love ten fold back.
Again, throw me that same question “how to become genuinely happy?”. I’ll refer you to a friend of mine who often quoted- “Most of us know that laughter is the best medicine to life’s aches and pain. But most of us don’t know that the best kind of laughter is laughter about yourself, because then you don’t just become happy… you become free.”
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