Are you a happy person? Happiness is a matter of choice not just luck.

How often have you thought of someone as simply having a happy disposition? The truth is that happiness doesn’t just fall into your lap, rather it is something you need to consciously work at. Chances are that person with the happy disposition consciously makes life choices to create that feeling, every day.

 

 

For some people this comes easier than for others, but everyone can choose to be happy and then to take the steps to make it happen. Just by changing habits in their life for ones that create more happiness they can shift themself towards the happier life they crave.

Happiness is not something that occurs all the time. Life is a series of ups and downs. Rather, being a happy person indicates that you are able to bring yourself back into that lighter state when you find yourself falling into darker moods.

 

Use this checklist to learn how happy you really are.

Happy people:

1. Nurture social relationships and spend time in-person with their friends
2. Live minimally
3. Tell the truth
4. Don’t judge
5. Don’t hold grudges
6. Never make excuses
7. Take the time to listen
8. Speak well of others
9. Choose their friends with care
10. Set their personal boundaries
11. Dream big
12. Avoid social comparisons
13. Treat everyone with kindness
14. Accept others
15. Exercise
16. Don’t sweat the small stuff
17. Accept what they cannot change
18. Meditate or practice quiet reflection
19. Avoid seeking approval from others
20. Express gratitude for what they already have in their life
21. Eat well
22. Laugh and have a sense of fun
23. Are busy but not rushed
24. Give – but not until it hurts
25. Surround themselves with other happy people

 

 

So just how happy are you?

 

If you didn’t rate so highly try adopting some of the practices on this list.

Start with just one or two and do them until they become a natural way for you to act or think. Then gradually add some more. As you increase your happy practices it becomes easier to add more and more, and you will find you feel happy most of the time.

What makes you feel really deeply happy? Leave  your reply below?

 

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