You Can Be Happy, But You Need Make an Effort to Be

History of Happiness

The path to happiness is both simple and complicated. It's the sum total of almost 2,000 years of theory, brain research, concepts, and debate concerning the meanings and sources of happiness. This secret to happiness has remained mostly unchanged from Aristotle's day in 340 B.C. through today's sophisticated scholars, lecturers, and writers. It is something that almost everyone in every country and from all backgrounds has in common. The key to happiness is to commit yourself to the development of your natural abilities and gifts by enjoying life to the fullest, and developing and trying to better in the service of a bigger cause than ourselves

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This is a big claim, and it comes with a big duty. Being grateful involves defining your life on your own terms and then pouring your heart and soul into making every second count. As it were, joy demands that you be completely infantile in order to have the ability to be selfless for the rest of your life.

PRIORITY MUST BE GIVEN TO YOUR HAPPINESS

Cyrano de Bergerac was asked why he is so passionately individualistic and uninterested in the evaluations and conclusions of others.
He responds with these wonderful words: "I am what I am because I decided from the beginning of my existence that I would essentially satisfy myself whatever."

Your Happiness is Your Choice

Your happiness is also dependent on your ability to please yourself no matter what. Nonetheless, the great majority of people are unwilling to use their own satisfaction as a criterion for judging events in their life. This is mostly due to the fact that we allow others to define or influence what offers us joy. Furthermore, we frequently place a higher value on satisfying others than on satisfying ourselves. This is ridiculous.

People are self-satisfied creatures. Everything we do in life is geared at maintaining and increasing our level of enjoyment. We are psychologically constructed in such a manner that it is impossible for us to be anything else without being intellectually and spiritually ill. The fact is that you can't give anything away to someone else that you don't have for yourself. You can't give money to impoverished people if you don't have any, and you can't make another person happy if you're completely hopeless.

The greatest approach to ensure that people are happy is to be happy yourself and then share your happiness with them. Others are pushed down and incapacitated by endurance and sacrifice. If you want to satisfy people, start by living the kind of life and doing the kinds of activities that make you happy.

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HAPPINESS SHOULD BE YOUR GUIDE

Make happiness your life's standard for getting things straightened up. That is, consider every possible activity and compare it to your current level of happiness to see if it would make you happier or less happy. Soon enough, you'll realize that nearly every problem you face in your daily life stems from decisions you've made.