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Happiness Is Honest
Honesty means consistency with our concept of the truth.

Habitually Happy People have very high integrity, they live consistently with their values and beliefs. And they choose values and beliefs that are held in high esteem by others as well.

“If you feel you have have to lie, it means you need to change what you are doing, change how you’re thinking about it or both,” one once commented.

Lying means we are ashamed of the truth or fear the truth.

Habitually Happy People don’t lie. They don’t deny the truth or fear the truth. They find ways of honestly sharing the truth with the people around them while still being kind.

They are happy and they are held in high esteem by others.

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Savor, Enjoy & Appreciate Wonderful People & Things Around You…

Whenever they notice something wonderful or beautiful, Habitually Happy People spend a few special extra seconds savoring, enjoying and appreciating its goodness. It’s a technique they use to elevate their mood, sustain a good mood and share beauty with people around them.

When we’re stressed, it’s easy to become so self consumed and driven that we fail to notice beauty and goodness. SEAing beauty allows us to detach from stressors, elevate our spirits and recharge our vibrant good feelings. Sometimes a moment is all we need…

So when you SEE something wonderful, spend a few extra seconds to SEA it too.

Adopt the Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People, become one yourself!

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Happiness Continually Challenges & Changes
A vibrant, happy life is characterized by change, challenge and achievement. It’s an active life focusing on actions, aspiring attitudes and accomplishment.

Happiness is not static or complacent nor a retreat into a La La Land of protected isolation. It’s expansive, energetic and enthusiastic, not withdrawn.

We have to know what we want to achieve in order attain it.

Watch the happy people in your life, see what they do, study their attitudes and behavior. Pay special attention to people who are both happy and who make others happy, they are the great masters of the Happiness Habit.

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Happy People Don’t Allow Themselves To Hate

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” ~ Booker T. Washington (1865 - 1915) Author and Educator

Habitually Happy People refuse to let themselves hate because hate, like jealousy and envy is such a negative, dangerous emotion. Hate drives people to do things they would never do were those destructive feelings absent. Hate degrades the spirit and the soul.

Do happy people get angry and upset? Absolutely! But they channel those feelings in positive, productive ways. They rebel against being controlled by any negative, destructive feeling whether it be their own or other people’s.

A happy life is not infected with hate, jealousy or envy. To live happily, decide to eliminate those feelings from your head and from your heart.

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Decide How You Want To Feel

Habitually Happy People have made a decision about how they want to feel, they choose their moods and attitudes.

They don’t readily hand control of their happiness, good humor or well-being over to outside circumstances that threaten to down their spirits, hurt or control them. They don’t look to outwardly to decide how to feel.

Instead, they look inwardly and choose thoughts, feelings and actions that help them to succeed and be happy. Study the skills and strategies of habitually happy people, become one yourself.

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Happy People Are Amazingly Altruistic

They give generously without strings attached. They are dedicated to doing good for goodness sake, not in expectation for what they can receive in return.

These are the people who will stop to help you change a flat tire but who will not accept any money in return. They have already received their compensation, knowing they did a good deed.

Look around you and watch for Habitually Happy People. Study them understand what they do and why it works so well. Them become one yourself!

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The First Few Moments of the Day Set The Tone For The Entire Day As you just begin to wake up, think of all the incredible things you have ahead of you and how wonderful it will be. Begin with eager anticipation.

You are at your best when your feeling your best. Why dampen a great day with a negative attitude? Be your best! Then let your best grow and strengthen throughout the day. Enjoy yourself and everything around you.

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Define what Happiness means to you…
That’s the first and most important step to living a happier life.

Does it mean waking up each morning enthusiastic and excited about the day? Then decide you will begin each day that way.

Do you want to enjoy each moment of the day? Then resolve to try to have a good time all the time.

Do you want to be free from all the negative influences that drain your spirit and energy? Become determined you will not hand control of your happines, joy and well- being over to people or situations that threaten to harm you. Become emotionally independent.

You have to see a goal, conceive it and believe it to achieve it. Decide what Happiness means to you and start creating the life you want to live.

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“Smooth seas do not make a great mariner.” ~ Seneca
Stay in the pond and you’ll get swamped in the sea.

Challenges temper us, making us stronger and more confident.
Situations that once seemed staggering become easy. It’s not
the circumstances that have changed, our confidence, strength
and effectiveness have grown. Be grateful for those gifts of
strength, they build us into what we need to be to face the
challenges of the future, to be happy and feel confident.

Happiness is not stressless, a happy life is not stress free.

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If you summon up a sense of fun and sparkle and then honestly project it, you can’t help but take on a bright, sparkling mood yourself.

Habitually Happy People try to have a good time all of the time.

“Ridiculous” answer critics, “you can’t expect to have fun and a good time all of the time!”

“I can!” Or, “with an attitude like that you’ll never be happy!” they reply.

Learn the skills and strategies of habitually happy people and become one yourself!

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