Five Ways to be Happy Today
by Are you putting off your happiness waiting for a particular thing, person or situation? If “I’ll be happy when…” precedes your thoughts and conversations about your life, you’re living in the future and not in the present. You are depriving yourself of the happiness that is around you, today.
Is this you?
“I’ll be happy when I get married.”
“When I clear my credit card bill, then I’ll be happy.”
“Happiness is owning my own home.”
“When I get my flat-screen TV, I’ll be happy like pappy.”
“I will never be happy as long as that person is working in my department.”
Are you putting off your happiness waiting for a particular thing, person or situation? If “I’ll be happy when…” precedes your thoughts and conversations about your life, you’re living in the future and not in the present. You are depriving yourself of the happiness that is around you, today.
You don’t have to wait for any one acquisition, event or person to be happy. Besides, none of these things or any other you can imagine comes with that guarantee. Tomorrow’s happiness is for tomorrow. You should be happy today.
The media bombards us with the message that this or that product will make us look years younger, live pain-free and slim. They entice us with places to find the perfect mate and schemes to get-rich-quick. I suppose that is their prerogative. The sad part is that we buy into the hoopla. We lap up the fallacy and lose ourselves in the fantasy that something or someone is going to make us happy – a new job, more money, a better relationship, a baby or a home.
And so, we wait.
It is normal to want to improve our lives. Still, postponing our happiness until we achieve the changes we want, makes for a life of frustrated impatience. Even worse, is that sometimes, the further along we go, the further away the happiness moves. Happiness can be illusive when we link it to a particular future goal. More importantly, when we keep our eyes peeled on the horizon, often, we miss the happiness imbedded in every day.
Here are four ways to be happy while you wait for the ultimate acquisition, the love of your life or the ideal circumstance?
Adjust your attitude
A disgruntled and complaining attitude is one sure way to deprive yourself of the smallest measure of happiness every day. You could be bypassing happy moments when every thought in your mind and every word you speak is a stark portrayal of your bad attitude towards people you live and work with and encounter during your day.
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