Happiness 101
Butterfly
Do you ever find yourself wondering how to find happiness? Have you ever struggled to achieve your goals and dreams? What I’ve found is that when this happens we can become stuck and struggle with life’s challenges. This can cause our world to shrink and for us to withdraw from life. The good news is there are ways to get more out of life and achieve more of your goals and dreams.
That’s why I wrote this article, it’s for those people who, like me, at times find they are struggling to achieve their goals and find happiness. These are techniques that have helped me to stretch and grow and have brought joy into my life. Hopefully they can help you too.
Now on to this week’s article…
How to Find Your True Happiness
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
As the Dali Lama points out, happiness doesn’t just lie around waiting to be picked up. As M. Scott Peck said in his outstanding book “The Road Less Traveled” “Life is difficult”. The choice is whether you decide to accept this or try to deny it or, even worse, try to drown it out with chemicals, meaningless activities or just withdrawing from the world because it has become just too burdensome.
My opinion is that it is best to admit that this is just the way life is and make the decision to be happy anyway. As Alfred D Souza once said, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life”.
That statement is very Zen like but, at least for me, says that there is no single path to happiness. Happiness is actually about embracing life and cherishing every moment you are given, enjoying this wonderful vacation on the most interesting planet (at least for now) in the universe.
Wil Dieck's Corner 