What is happiness?
What roles does happiness plays in your life?
What does it take to be happy?
If you can be able to answer this three questions, then getting to find happiness will be very much easier for you. A lot of people today have failed to realize the need and importance of happiness, they fail to realize that with happiness their goals is achievable. And that is the reason why i have decided to write this post, because in this post you will get to know the true meaning of happiness and the roles or benefits of living a happy life.
In this post you will equally get the tips and steps to live a happy life.
Now let's get started.
First, what is happiness? According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Happiness simply means a feeling or showing pleasure.
Again. Happiness is the ability to be satisfied that something is good or right. I personally like the second definition, there is a lot to learn from this very definition and that is;
You can never be happy or satisfied when you are not doing things right.
Now without wasting much of our time let's quickly look closely at the things you can do to be able to live a happy and successful life you deserve.
Points to consider;
- Believe In Yourself
- Stay Positive In All Things
- Always Do Those Things You Like Doing
- Make The Right Friends
- Live By principle
- Always Mediate
- Get Rid Of Your Pride
- It Does Not Matter What People Think About You
- Don't Be Fast Enough To Judge People
- Learn To Forgive
- Do Not Be Afraid Of Mistake
Believe In Yourself
Life is too competitive, therefore to be able to be the best in your field, you will have to believe in yourself first. It is very important you believe in your personal ability. When an opportunity rises, take action and have the mindset that you are going to make it.
Believe in yourself that there is no limit to what you can achieve in life
Stay Positive In All Things
Just like i mentioned earlier, you must have the mentality of believing that things will only workout for good. Being positive brings you positive things in live. And thinking negatively will only cause negative effect on you, that is why you have to avoid it.
Stay positive, believe in your capability and always do what is right at the appropriate time.
You don't know what you are capable of until you try doing it
Always do those things you like doing
One thing is for sure, and that is you can never be happy doing what you don't like. Just like as i mention above that the world is too competitive, so for you to come out the best in your field, you will need passion and devotion.
Let's quickly look at the meaning of passion.
Passion is a very strong of liking something; a hobby or an activity.
When you do what you like you will see yourself doing it more better. Now it is left for you to ask yourself. what is that thing that you always derive joy doing? If you can be able to come up with any answer, congratulations to you. Now stick with it, keep doing it.
One interesting thing about doing what you like doing is that even when that very thing seem difficult, because of the fact that you are doing it with all your heart you will find it more easier and convenient to do it.
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Make The Right Friends
There are so many things to learn when you have friends around you. With friends around you will learn both positive and negative things, that is why when choosing friends you make sure you chose wisely.
Some of the benefits in having the right friends is that he will get to help you out in so many ways, especially when you are lost, he advises you on how to do things when you are facing some challenges.
Live By Principle
Living by principle is an example of having control over your life. It will make you do things right instead of making some costly mistake that will cause you your happiness.
Always Meditate
Meditation plays an important role in our life, by giving yourself time to meditate on something you found challenging will help you to come out with the best solution to it.
There are so many benefits of meditation and one of it benefits is that it helps to improve your concentration. Again meditation helps to stabilize you emotion, it also help you to know what is happening around your life.
Finally, it gives meaning to your life.
Get Rid Of Your Pride
You must get ride of your ego if you really want to live a happy life. Pride will never yield anything good in your life. Instead it causes you pain and stagnate your life.
Pride will always make you to always look down someone that posses the qualities which you will need to excel in life, and with such life you will always end up meeting the wrong once. Now what you have to do is to fight it off, get rid of it immediately.
It Does Not Matter What People Think About You
Majorly, this is the area you really need to look into. To me i see this as the one of the characteristics of life, because in life no matter who you are or whatever you do be it good or bad did, right or wrong, people will always lament on it. That is why you can never please everybody at the same time.
But the unavoidable question here is, why is it totally impossible to please everybody at the same time? Well, let me try my best in answering this particular question. base on my own perspective i will say it is because everybody has him/her own way of viewing or thinking, you can't possibly force someone to change his way of thinking.
No matter how you do it, you can't just try it. Their are some set of people out there that can't be pleased no matter what you do and how you did it. But mind you that the fact that you can't please everybody at the same time does not necessarily mean you should stop pleasing people.
Don't Be Fast Enough To Judge People
As they said, it is never good to judge a book by it cover. But is more advisable to try to know people well before judging them, than judging them before getting to know them.
There are some set of people that when challenges rises, they are always quick enough to judge after hearing a side of the story, such attitude is indeed a bad habit. No matter what before judging you are to ensure you hear from both side before concluding in order to avoid putting yourself into trouble.
Learn To Forgive
If i'm being called upon to name one thing that can affect a person both physically, emotionally and spiritually. I will plainly and boldly tell you that it is MALICE.
This is Yolanda Hadid quote
I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're are sorry and even stronger person to forgiveDo Not Be Afraid Of Mistake
Making mistake is something we humans can never eradicate. Believe it or not mistake is unavoidable, but it is correctable. One of the great benefit in making mistake is that mistake brings perfection and it's a sign of success.
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