Deliberately Choose to Have a Happy Life
To build a happier life, you will need to ask yourself a very important question about each thing in your life: Does this really make me happy? While it is true that happiness comes from deep inside a person, happiness also has the experiential side, the happiness you experience in the real world. For example, if you received some tax rebate or a financial gift, that will surely bring a smile to your world instead of a bill you were not expecting.
The easiest way to start building a happier life is to eliminate those activities that are clearly not generating any happiness for you. It’s possible they give some momentary pleasure but long term wise; the gains are minimal or even negative. Why invest in activities that don’t give you benefits?
You can start off by reducing your email volume. Reduce the urge to sign up for everything which gives marketers permission to send you deal offers and messages. Less emails means less time spending replying and processing through emails. In this way, you will only get the more important personal emails which are the emails that count. Also, think about the time you will save from processing emails. You can use that for other happiness inducing activities.
A lot of people waste time online through social networking. It can surely give a momentary pleasure but long term wise; it is a very big time investment. You can easily use the saved time to work on other projects or activities that will increase your happiness. If you really can’t leave Facebook, then just stick to it and leave the other social networking sites.
Cable TV has financial and time costs for you. It’s true that you can learn via educational documentaries, but a good look at it would tell you that it won’t increase your happiness much. You can rent instead if it is really a must see documentary. Spend your time instead reading books.
Decluttering your life especially of possessions that you have accumulated over the years will definitely increase your happiness. Why? Because it takes up space and is an eyesore. Giving it away can help others and increase your happiness in the process.
Making big changes in your life can surely boost your happiness level. For example, if your marriage is not working out and you have tried everything to revive it, then perhaps a divorce would be better for both parties to move on and have a happier life.
Making lifestyle changes by following your passions and interests will also help make you experience happiness more. Making new friends and working on new challenging projects also help people learn more about themselves and expand their growth and knowledge.
Doing the things mentioned above should be done on a step by step basis. Change one activity and usually it will affect another aspect of your life. Since the changes you will be making are to increase happiness, another aspect of your life is also bound to improve. By simplifying life and simply moving towards to activities that make you happy is bound to increase your satisfaction in life. To pursue happiness is to increase happiness in your life. There will be challenges along the way in this journey, but it is worth every penny.
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I agree with this. I only use facebook now sort of like how I use my e-mail. That only takes me 5 minutes tops to check messages from my brother and some other friends and relatives abroad. It saves so much time. On weekends, when I check the feed I limit myself to 5 minutes–and I found myself checking posts of people who are really impt to me coz I didnt want to waste the 5 minutes.
Oh, and I don’t have a tv too.
Awesome!
That is very good use of your time.
I admire your discipline and detachment from TV
Cheers,
Argee
Totally agree! As mentioned, happiness IS a choice. In order to be happy, we really need to put our minds into it. And stop being so miserable and melodramatic (telling myself).
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As always, happiness is a choice. Blogging makes me happy. So as watching anime and a lot of things. But there are also simple things that can make me happy. And I guess, other people feel the same way.
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What a detailed and helpful post…decluttering…it’s something I need to do and need to do soon! Thanks for an inspiring post.
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nadali mo…
sabi nga nila happies in the choice…
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Another post that hits the cherry…Thank your for another inspiring post, I do hope to apply this in my life…been once an organized person but I don’t know what really happened, I’m so lost :/
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very inspiring tips. i agree with lizee though. happiness indeed is a choice and everybody has their own source of happiness. may it be long term or short term. the important thing is they became happy.
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Hi Rachelle,
Thank you! I agree with your observation that happiness is indeed a choice and there are different sources of happiness for everyone
Wow, this is actually very informative and thought-provoking. I think at the moment, I need to become detached to the internet since it takes up a really big portion of my time which I can use for other things. Decluttering my room has also been rusting on my must-do list.
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We all want to be happy but sadly, we don’t always find it. Thanks for sharing these helpful and inspiring tips.