Get Happy Now!

Many people believe that happiness follows success. I bet you’ve caught yourself a time or two saying things like, “I’ll be happy when I lose 25 pounds,” or “I’ll be happy when I find Mr. Right,” or “I’ll be happy when I am living in my dream home,” or “I’ll be happy when my husband changes his attitude.” It doesn’t work like that.

In my opinion, success follows happiness. Get happy and things start changing in your life. Think about it – is it easier to eat healthy and exercise when you’re miserable or when you’re happy? Is it easier to attract Mr. Right with a look of gloom and doom on your face, or with a cheerful smile and bright outlook on life? Will you ever be able to afford that dream home when you’re so negative you can’t attract abundance? And as far as the husband goes … is it possible that when you’re lighter and happier, people around you will seem easier to deal with and more fun to be around?

Try something different. Make the decision to be happy NOW – you may very well find that you attract all that you want by first becoming happy. Here are some things you can start doing today that will free you and lead you to happiness – right now.

1. Accept yourself and love yourself – unconditionally. Practice extreme self-care and set healthy boundaries. Self-love is not selfish.

2. Stop rehashing the past. Don’t invest your energy in things you can’t go back and redo. Make peace with it. Get out of the past and into your life.

3. Don’t compare your life to others. Don’t try to walk in their shoes – you have no clue what their life’s journey is all about. Keep your feet in your own shoes and follow your own path. Discover you own life’s purpose.

4. Don’t waste your precious time and energy on idle gossip.

5. Look around you. Who are you hanging out with? Are they draining your energy? Clear out your space and make room for positive, like-minded people who will contribute to your life – not take away from it.

6. Lighten up. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

7. Don’t bother rehearsing the future with a bunch of “what if’s” – it never turns out like you rehearsed it – and then you have wasted every minute you were caught up in the worry.

8. Dream big! Even while you’re awake – dream big!

9. Realize that there is only one person responsible for your happiness – and that person is YOU.

10. Know without a doubt that everything happens FOR you – not TO you. Problems are opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Embrace your life. All of it.

11. You don’t always have to be right. It’s perfectly fine to agree to disagree.

12. Practice mindfulness – in everything you do. And add some laughter.

13. Change your perceptions and expectations. Don’t try to change things you can’t control.

14. Don’t long for what everybody else has. Know that you have everything you need. Envy is a wasted emotion.

15. Life is too short for hatred or revenge. It’s like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It will eat you up inside. Forgive. Then Drop it.

Imagine what your life would be like if you made these choices? What would change? How would your life improve? Do you have the courage to give it a try?