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Focus On How You Want To Feel

Focus On How You Want To Feel

Habitually Happy People know how they like to feel, they have a sort of Best Self optimal way of being and feeling. They try to be that way and feel that way most of the time.

Yes, like the rest of us, they times when they fall into the dumps or doldrums. But they catch themselves and try to stop, re energize and return to their Best Self way of being.

They’ll say, “I don’t like myself when I feel or act that way.”

They focus on how they want to feel and try to become that way. When you focus on a bad feelings they expand in your mind. Happy People focus on how they want to feel, not on what they want to cast off.

It’s a powerful technique from the Happiness Habit!

Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Happy People Define Themselves

Habitually Happy People Define Themselves

Habitually Happy People are happy because they decided to define themselves to be happy people. At some critical point in their lives, they resolved to cast off all unnecessary unhappiness, misery and negativity. They consciously decided to develop themselves to be happy people. They gradually acquired the thoughts, feelings and actions of happy people.

Many of the habitually happy people we interviewed and studied said they came from dismal, unhappy, dysfunctional family situations or backgrounds. They didn’t want to be or become just a product of their environment and experience, they wanted far more for their lives.

So they cast off past pain and misery and developed themselves into happy, successful people. It was a goal that became a sort of role for them. Gradually, over time, they adopted the positive, successful perspectives and habits that lead to a happy, successful life. They developed themselves into happy people. They decided to define who they would be and become.

The same skills and perspectives are available to all of us!

Happiness Habit – Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Happiness Is Kind

Happiness Is Kind

Kindness is Goodness and Love in Action.

Kindness is reaching out and giving a gift of caring, compassion and concern to others. Even small, seemingly insignificant gestures can often mean a great deal to a person in need.

Habitually Happy People are extraordinarily kind. And they are also very independent. They are the ones who will break from the crowd to extend kindness to an individual in distress when everyone else is hostile or aloof. They do it because no one else is doing it and they know it needs to be done.

By extending love and kindness to others we feel love within ourselves. When we extend love to the unlovable, we become certain we are loved and lovable ourselves.

Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Guided By Goodness

Happiness is Guided By Goodness

“Happy People Are Never Wicked” – Dutch Proverb

We are often surprised how very happy truly good people are. Truly happy people are guided by goodness and they make goodness a goal. They continually try to do their best, feel their best and be at their best. Goodness is a central part of being their best.

Goodness allows them to live in harmony and be respected by others. Goodness allows them to act and think consistently with their highest and best values. Goodness is very powerful, goodness is eternal and universal.

Evil is always driven by some sort of self interest, sometimes twisted and covert. Evil is a departure from goodness that brings gain to some from the pain of others. Competition is not inherently evil, good competition prompts everyone to gain.

Goodness prevails because it is in the best interest of many, not just a few.

Try guiding your life with goodness, make goodness a goal. It’s a way to be happy.

HappinessHabit: Skills & Strategies for Living A Happy Life
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Love Propels Happiness

Love Propels Happiness

Happiness comes with the excited, exuberant, elated emotion we feel when we are in love with what we’re doing, the people around us, the future ahead of us. Love is exciting, delighting, empowering, uplifting. Love sends our spirits soaring.

Happy people love the world around them, their work, their future, they love everything the do. Love propels their happiness. Habitually happy people have decided to try to love all of the time.

Love is an active verb, it is something we decide to do and it’s an emotion we feel.

To live a happier life, propel your happiness with love. Decide to try to love all of the time.

Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Happiness Is Rebellious!

Happiness Is Rebellious!

Habitually Happy People exhibit indomitable good spirits. They refuse to let life’s difficulties get them down. They know they have to be at their best to do their best, so they try to be at their best all of the time. And they try to have a good time all of the time.

A stubborn refusal to let life’s difficulties get the better of them is an important component of their happiness. They protect their good mood. Irrepressible good cheer helps fuels their enjoyment of life.

A streak of rebelliousness fuels their desire and determination to overcome obstacles, difficulties and anything that threatens to demoralize or depress them. They want to get the most of life and enjoy life as much as they can.

Let a rebellious spirit fuel your happiness!

Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Happiness Is Honest

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.

Happiness Habit – Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Savor, Enjoy, Appreciate

Savor, Enjoy & Appreciate ALL The Wonderful 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.

It may be a gentle breeze on our face, a beautiful sunset or an unexpected smile.

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!

Happiness Habit: Skills & Strategies of Habitually Happy People
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Happiness Continually Changes

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 Hate

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 negativity.

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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