When Will You Be Happy?
If not now, when?
Happiness really is all it is cracked up to be. If you’re not happy with your life, then the days become something to be endured. And, since life is short and tomorrow is guaranteed to no one, why not be happy today? So often we go through our days waiting for something big to make us happy. We wait for the perfect girlfriend, job, house, vacation, etc. and then we’ll be happy. The problem with this is - nothing we can acquire can make us happy. And, even if and when we get what we want, we find we’re essentially unchanged. It didn’t make us happy? Why? Because only we can cultivate our own happiness starting from the inside.
I recently wrote an entended article entited “I Will Be Happy When…” on this very subject as part of my monthly newsletter. Here’s a snippet…
A great life is lived right here and now. If you can’t be happy, grateful, and fully alive with the current condition of your life, you won’t miraculously be transformed just because you get something (in the external world) that you say you want. That doesn’t mean making changes and achieving things you want can’t improve your life. It most certainly can and will. Yet, achieving goals is just a magnifier of what already IS whether that is a feeling of abundance or lack. How can that be you say?
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Jeffrey M. Harty said,
March 24, 2007 @ 6:39 am
Hi Paula,
I want to congradulate you on the above caption. Happiness does come from within all you need is to be open to it. I believe happiness is within everyones reach. The problem with so many people is that life gets busy either by the family or by the job. If the people can stop and listen for alitlle bit they can feel and see so many things, but people are just to busy to learn or just do want to listen. Let me know if that makes any sense.
Jeffrey Michele
Michele Moore said,
March 24, 2007 @ 7:27 am
Super comments, many thanks! Maybe these thoughts
from the Happiness Habit will be helpful to your readers…
“To be happy, continually S.E.A. - Savor, Enjoy and
Appreciate all the wonderful things around us and that
happen to us.”
“A negative judgment is the power behind all fear,
anxiety, worry and emotional pain…
If the negative judgment doesn’t protect you or help
you in some way, reject it. If it does, turn it into a
positive action item.”
Michele Moore - author of
How To Live A Happy Life
101 Ways To Be Happier
http://www.HappinessHabit.com
http://www.HappinessBlog.com
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Coaching4Lesbians » Blog Archive » Can a Job Make You Happy? said,
May 9, 2007 @ 11:27 am
[...] In a nutshell, the answer is No, but it can make you feel miserable. In fact, I wrote about the deadly “one day I’ll be happy” pattern we tend to fall into in my article “When Will You Be Happy?”. As it relates to careers, this deadly pattern translates into believing you’ll be happy only when you get that new, perfect job. Unfortunately jobs come and go and suddenly you find yourself in some new job and realize that it is a huge deejay-vu only with different furniture and the names and faces changed. Your feelings of happiness or unhappiness on the whole remain. [...]