Happiness is a choice that we make every day we wake up. Regardless of our situation or if the sun is shining or it is cloudy and rainy day, you can still choose to be happy. How can I be happy in the doom and gloom, you ask? How can I be happy when I don’t like my job or I’m at odds with someone? I won’t say it’s easy. But happiness is essential to your health and well being. It is the catalyst for opening doors and seeing the world for what it truly is; one enormous opportunity to see the happiness around you, in the small. It doesn’t have to be grandiose or expensive or even outside of your four walls. But you do have to see it. And then choose it.
The first thing I do in the morning after I let the dogs out of their “houses” and put food in their bowls is make myself a steaming hot cup of coffee. I know….caffeine bad….but I enjoy it. I’ve been drinking it since I was two, before we were told caffeine was bad. Sometimes I do decaf. It’s more about the feel, not the jolt. Sorry…tangent. I take a drink and even on a hot day the warmth is welcoming and makes me…wait for it…happy.
What is the next thing I do after letting the dogs out and standing in what can sometimes be sub zero weather and for all intensive purposes, does not make me happy? I get into my shower and turn it on the massage setting and beat my neck and back until all the aches and pains that have accumulated during the night are gone. Happiness.
Find your happy in the simple and the small. If you can only be happy in the big and the bold, you’ll miss out on a lot of tiny pieces that can accumulate into a happy filled day.
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I started practicing gratitude a little while back and realizing all the things that brought me joy or that I’m grateful for no matter how big or how small. You can find joy and contentment in anything in life really, it doesn’t have to be some big extravagant thing.
I expected most contributors would follow the commencement-speech cliches of our high-achieving culture: dream big; set ambitious goals; try to change the world. In fact, a surprising number of people found their purpose by going the other way, by pursuing the small, happy life. Elizabeth Young once heard the story of a man who was asked by a journalist to show his most precious possession. The man, Young wrote, “was proud and excited to show the journalist the gift he had been bequeathed. A banged up tin pot he kept carefully wrapped in cloth as though it was fragile. The journalist was confused, what made this dingy old pot so valuable? ‘The message,’ the friend replied. The message was ‘we do not all have to shine.’ This story resonated deeply. In that moment I was able to relieve myself of the need to do something important, from which I would reap praise and be rewarded with fulfillment. My vision cleared.”
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