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HOW TO BE TRULY HAPPY

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Happiness is internal.

This is something you may have heard before but not really considered. People tend to think that happiness is external, they think happiness comes from the nice clothes you wear, the nice car you drive, and the money that you have whereas the hard truth is that it has no impact. The reason for that is because as humans we continuously chase, and there is a constant need in modern society for more.

Everyone thinks more is better. More money, more fame, a bigger house, more clothes with no vision for satisfaction. Think about, it you may want something, it could be anything but once you get it you turn to the next thing because there will always be a nicer phone you can buy or a nicer pair of shoes and the message that society has given you of ‘constantly needing to have the newest and nicest thing’ keeps you buying which keeps money flowing but It could not be further away from achieving happiness.

If it did lead to happiness it means that the definition of it is forever changing.

This shows that you can’t obtain happiness from something external because if you’re not internally happy then nothing external matters, it’s like filling up a bucket with holes in it, you can chuck as much water in as possible but the bucket will never fill up.

Happiness is internal, don’t believe me? Why do you have people living in 3rd world countries that have so little that are utterly happy? Those that spend their days walking 20 miles collecting food and water to go back to their skeleton of a house. Why are they happy if happiness comes from buying nice things?

It's because happiness is a frame of mind, and it stems from being grateful for what you have.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

As we have established, In order to be happy you have to be grateful for what you have and to do that, practising self-gratitude is a fantastic way to do it.

To practice self-gratitude you have to take yourself out of the consumer cycle and a good way to do this is to journal. Sit down and write about how you feel and what you’re grateful for, even the small seemingly irrelevant things such as the jumper you’re wearing or the fact that you don’t have to worry about whether you’re able to eat tonight or the fact that your life really isn’t that hard.

TAKEAWAYS:

Happiness is a frame of mind, the gap between your expectations and reality.

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One of the most critical skills in life—and yet never taught in school—is choosing where to direct your attention.