Albert Einstein stated that the definition of insanity “was doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.” If you are not happy with the results your life is producing, then don’t be satisfied with being complacent with those outcomes. Don’t settle for a mediocre life of unhappiness; make the choice to instate some change in your life. You and only you are the captain of this vessel we call life. Refrain from being one of those people who believes it is always someone else’s fault why you are unhappy. Take ownership and control of your life and instate the changes that will lead you to the path of happiness. There are so many external factors in our lives that are poised to detour us off of our journey of happiness. We have no time, nor room for the internal ones. We must clear our minds, eliminating the negativity and replacing it with the positive. The first step is realigning our priorities to focus less on the big picture and more on the pixels of life.
We must learn to take time to smell the roses and enjoy the simple things in life. It is all up to us. We are in control and we have the power to be happy. We just have to choose to be happy. Happiness like life is a journey; sometimes it comes easy and at other times it will seem to be a hopeless fight; a struggle against all odds. Happiness is simple. Find out who you are, cling to those simple things that bring a smile to your face, and choose to repeat those on a daily basis and on an hourly basis if you can. Believe in yourself that you are worthy of happiness and remind yourself of that every day when you awake and every night before you close your eyes. Repeat after me, “I choose to be happy. I choose to take time to bathe in the glory of the simple things in life. I choose to eliminate those factors that cause my unhappiness and replace them with those factors that make me happy. I choose to take control of my life and change the path that I am on so that my journey from here on out will be filled with more happiness. I choose to immerse myself in the glory of happiness and I understand that I and only I, am the cause of my happiness and/or my unhappiness.”
The above text was originally posted on 1/23/14
The New Year holiday is a time of reflection and looking forward. As I reflect and reread some of the blogs that I have wrote over the last two years I find that they are still relevant today as they were when I wrote them. Though I may be a few days older, a little wiser they still strike me and make me say wow. Though I may see them in a different light, they still make me want to strive to be a better person.
The above entry is part of a philosophy I have been panning out for several years now and you will see a lot of that going forward. I like this blog because it breaks down happiness into it's simplest form and that is it is a choice. We all have the ability to be happy, because we have the choice to be. Someone once challenged me on that thought. They said, "we all don't have a choice to be happy. What about those that need medication to be happy? What about those people that need counseling to be happy?" My reply was this, "I am not a doctor and I have no education on the matter other than the tragedies that I have lived through, but I believe that anyone who has the mental ability to know they are unhappy, has the inherent ability to seek happiness. At the point we declare that we are unhappy a choice is made! We choose to stay in an unhappy world or we choose to seek happiness. Sometimes in choosing to seek happiness we realize we need professional help, so we seek out a counselor or doctor. A choice is made even if we refuse to make a choice, because once we decide we are unhappy we have made the beast real, and by not making a decision to seek happiness we have made the decision to stay with the beast!"
Choose to seek happiness, it's not a destination it's something that you work at each and every day. Sometimes you have to rediscover it and that is OK. As long as you continue to search for it and become a better person. Don't become stagnate and drown in the self pity sea of unhappiness. This world can be dark, cold, cruel, and unforgiving and we all will stumble and lose our way from the path of happiness, but we must choose not to stay with the beast once we realize that we are unhappy.
My friends call me Mr. Positive and even I stumble. When I think of happiness I am often reminded of The Most Interesting Man in the World, the Dos Equis beer advertising guy. I am not always positive and happy, but when I am I am insanely, contagiously out of this world happy and positive. Stay Happy my friend.
Choose happiness, and if you don't like the story of your life, then pick up the pen and start writing a new chapter.
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