Happiness Is An Art

Happiness is an art; it's a separate art from money, or travel or love or even success. 

None of the above mentioned things guarantee happiness. Here's a story to illustrate my point; Joe walked into the room and said "Dad, i told you I need 20 dollars! It's important.." Joe and his dad had been through this kind of conversation several times and right now Joe's father wasn't at all in the mood to argue, so he quietly reaches into his pocket, squeezes up a 20 dollar bill in his left hand and throws it at his son And then yells "Here! If you need the darn stuff that bad, just take it and get out of my face!" The man's made almost 4 million dollars this year alone, has a very comfortable lifestyle but the guy's unhappy. He just divorced his wife and is never on good terms with his 19 year old son. I'm pretty sure you reading this can relate to an extent with this story of Joe and his father, I mean, Don't we all pity the father with money but no joy? He studied economics bit he never studied joy. 

Some people have a false belief that more money equals more happiness. However, this is untrue because like I said earlier happiness is a different art form than money, and anyone; poor people, people of modest means, literally anyone can learn how to weave their own happiness with whatever resources they have right now. 

In that spirit, Let me share with you 5 simple tips to help you be much happier starting right now.

1. Save up and treat yourself and family (if you already have one) 

You don't have to buy everything! practice a little self discipline, save up by value, and plan a treat for yourself and your family, you'd come back feeling refreshed and you'd have recharged your happiness-o-meter.

2. Fashion your day the night before. 

When you plan your day the night before, you wake up and immediately have direction, when you have direction you feel purposeful, and when you feel purposeful you'll feel good about yourself, and yes you guessed right! continually feeling good about yourself inevitably makes you a happy fella. 

3. Regularly spend time to do something you love (Just you) 

Regularly take some time off. just spend some time by yourself and power down... No kids around, No husband or wife, no work just spend time with yourself to write, take a long walk, go on a personal vacation, just power down and relax your body and mind you'll be back feeling refreshed and full of joy and enthusiasm.

4. Have a mentor. And celebrate their success while letting it inspire you.  

Having a mentor who's more successful than yourself will inspire you to keep pushing your limits. It'll keep you challenged to constantly achieve more. And when you're constantly achieving more, you'd continually feel good about yourself and your achievements 

5. Ask for God's help. 

If you'll allow me a personal one here. It's to ask for help when you need it. We all have days when we need to come out of our low morale state but just can't on these days, we need a hand to pull us back up on our feet so when you feel down and you definitely will, say a quick prayer and tell God to get you back On Track.

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Cheers.

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