Happiness

 

When was the last time you considered yourself happy with your life, successes, accomplishments, or the goals you may have set for yourself when young?

So, let's unpack that statement...  I am asking about:

1.  your happiness relative to:

• your life
• your successes
• your accomplishments
• your goals

When you were in high school did you think about being happy?

• You were happy if you made the sport's team, unhappy if you didn't.
• You were happy if you had a date for the prom, unhappy if you didn't.
• You were happy if you made good grades, unhappy if you didn't.

There wasn't much to your life back then or your successes, accomplishments, and goals.

As you got older all these things sort of fell into place...  but, as they did, were you consciously aware of your HAPPINESS?

Did we make any decisions to leave the city, or the county, or the state to increase your happiness?

Most of us decided that the last thing we wanted to do was go into the military and be told what to do all the time...  instead, we remained a civilian where we were told what to do all the time...  but did we think about our happiness?

Being happy is a state of mind, a conscious state of mind, that many of us have to work at, define and understand.  We can set different parameters for being happy.  Just because we are not wealthy does not mean we cannot be happy...  if you believe happiness does not come from money.

How do you measure your happiness?