Being happy may not come naturally to you.
You are entitled to be happy, so why not choose happiness everyday.
Everyday the sun comes up is an opportunity to choose to be happy. You don’t have to…it is an opportunity. Life is minute to minute. I don’t know the future so why not plan on it being great! That is a reason to feel happy.
Somewhere in my life I started counting every day, for the opportunity to be happy. Even if just for one thing, I could be happy about on this day. So far, the sun has come up 16,834 days for me and I plan to have the rest of them start with a choice to be happy. Will I be perfect…probably not. Will I make the most of the opportunity? You bet I will.
Our lives are full of potential sources of happiness, yett sometimes we become victims of negative thinking because we are focusing on all that has gone wrong. We have a habit of thinking that we have to face the challenges of survival, and struggle. Struggle is overrated.
Try this instead. Choose to focus on what makes you happy. You can find one thing, if you just look. There are many things all around you, it is simply up to you to identify it. A shift in your thinking and in your emotions occurs almost immediately. It changes the way way you start to look at your life. The point of view, from which you see the world, is brought into perspective, and you can see that being alive truly is an opportunity.
All resistance and obstacles are created in the mind. If you find yourself resisting or feeling blocked from experiencing happiness, you simply want to look within yourself and define that boulder that is blocking you. You will start to see, that you too, can choose happiness.
Keep a journal. “My Choice is Happiness” For those times that happiness seems to be a difficult choice, review your journal and all of the wonderful moments you have cataloged. Happiness is unfolding all around us. Writing about what you notice, including the emotions you experience, gives you a treasured resource that will always be there for you.
