Happiness is what everyone wants. Yet, sometimes, we sabotage our efforts to find and enjoy happiness. You can honestly be happy today. Here’s how.
“Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.” – Sri Chinmoy.
Happiness: How to Honestly Be Happy
With happiness, it isn’t that we don’t have a lot of other pressing things to do. Frankly, we may have too much. The result is that we shortchange our well-being in the process. But we still want to be happy. So, what’s the best way to be honestly happy?
Dealing with the Day-to-Day Tasks
Burnout and fatigue happen all too easily. Day-to-day tasks and responsibilities tend to eat away at the clock. This depletes our motivation and saps our energy, so we have nothing left. We only want to crawl into bed and stop the whirlwind of motion.
Where does this leave happiness? We know we still want it, although we may question whether there’s room for it in our life right now or, worse, whether or not we deserve it.
Create a Happiness Goal
Let’s get down to the business of creating goals. Shouldn’t one of these goals be happiness, which we put some time into each day? Not fleetingly happy or superficially happy but profound and authentically happy.
We can do this.
However, it may take some practice, especially if we’re a little rusty in scheduling self-care.
Learn to Be Happy
Can one learn to be happy? If the opposite is true, that one can learn unhappiness, then yes, definitely, it is possible to learn to be happy. Learning comes through experience and action. It isn’t abstract. We know it when we see it.
- Put your hand on a hot stove and quickly learn you won’t want to repeat it. That is wisdom at a price, but it’s still accumulated knowledge.
- Laugh until your sides split, and you’ll quickly realize this is good, clean fun. It feels good, doesn’t cost a dime, and has long-lasting physical and mental health benefits.
See, we can learn to be happy. At least, the practice of being honestly happy today can be learned. What we do with this knowledge determines how well and how often we feel genuine happiness.
Share Happiness With Others
Another point worth making is to share when we’re happy with others. This is a gift that keeps on giving. When we share joy and goodwill with someone, we get outside ourselves and our immediate concerns to do something for another. This is the true spirit of goodness and, by extension, personal fulfillment, and happiness.
And it’s available to each of us.
