Happy as You Want to Be

Almost every­one have heard the hit sin­gle ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ by Bobby McFer­rin. The song has a very catchy way of con­vey­ing its mes­sage of being happy.

Liv­ing a happy, resilient and opti­mistic life is won­der­ful, and it is also good for your health. Being happy actu­ally pro­tects you from the stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart dis­ease, can­cer and stroke.

One of the bet­ter things ever said is,‘The only thing in life that will always remain the same is change’.

Here is the fact, in your life, if you want, you have the power to make the nec­es­sary changes, even if you find your­selves in an unbear­able sit­u­a­tion, still, you can always find solace in the knowl­edge that it too can change.

Social net­works or rela­tion­ships are the essen­tial to hap­pi­ness. Peo­ple are dif­fer­ent from each other, accept them for whom they are, avoid clashes, con­stant argu­ments, and let go of all kinds of resent­ments can enhance your hap­pi­ness. If the argu­ments seems like unavoid­able, then try you best and make an effort to under­stand the sit­u­a­tion, you may dis­cover that you actu­ally can han­dle and get along with it quite well.

Hap­pi­ness actu­ally can find in every­one, to be happy and liv­ing in a happy life is rel­a­tively easy and sim­ple — just be a happy person.

Abra­ham Lin­coln observed that most peo­ple in the most of the time can choose how happy or stressed, how relaxed or trou­bled, how bright or dull they want their out­look to be. The choice is sim­ple really, choose to be happy.

Now I am going to share with you sev­eral ways that you could fol­low in order to achieve the happiness.

Being grate­ful is a great atti­tude. You have so much to be thank­ful for every­day. Thank the taxi dri­ver for bring­ing you home safely, thank the cook for a won­der­ful din­ner and thank the guy who cleans your win­dows. Also thank the mail­man for bring­ing you your mails, thank the police­man for mak­ing your place safe and thank God for being alive.

News is stress­ful. Get less of it. Some peo­ple just can’t start their day with­out their daily dose of news. Try and think about it, 99% of the news we hear or read is bad news. Start­ing the day with bad news does not seem to be a sen­si­ble thing to do.

A reli­gious con­nec­tion is also rec­om­mended.

Being part of a reli­gious group with its singing, sacra­ments, chant­ing, prayers and med­i­ta­tions fos­ter inner peace.

Man­age your time.

Time is invalu­able and too impor­tant to waste. Time man­age­ment can be viewed as a list of rules, which involves sched­ul­ing, set­ting goals, plan­ning, cre­at­ing lists of things to do and pri­or­i­tiz­ing. These are the core basics of time man­age­ment that should be under­stood towards to develop an effi­cient per­sonal time man­age­ment skill.

Laugh and laugh heartily every­day.

Heard a good joke? Tell your friends or fam­ily about it. As they also say -‘Laugh­ter is the best medicine’.

Express your feel­ings, affec­tions, friend­ship and pas­sion to peo­ple around you.

They will most likely rec­i­p­ro­cate your actions. Try not to keep pent up anger of frus­tra­tions, this is bad for your health. Instead find ways of express­ing them in a way that will not cause more injury or hurt to anyone.

Work­ing hard brings tremen­dous per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion.

It will give you a feel­ing of being com­pe­tent in fin­ish­ing the tasks. Accom­plish­ments are nec­es­sary for all of us; they give us a sense of value, so work on the things that you feel wor­thy of your time can really increase the level of your happiness.

Learn­ing is a joy­ful exer­cise.

Try and learn some­thing new every­day. Learn­ing gives you chances to expand and broaden your hori­zons. And it also gives you more oppor­tu­ni­ties in the future.

Don’t for­get to run, jog, walk and do other things that your body was made for — Feel alive! And avoid to expo­sure to those neg­a­tive ele­ments, such as loud noises, tox­ins and haz­ardous places.

Believe me, just do above these sim­ple things every­day can really make you hap­pier. And always remem­ber the quote from Abra­ham Lin­coln, he says that, “Most peo­ple are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”