Genuine Happiness Comes from Within

Life isn’t all roses and the sweetest candy. When you feel that life is going tough, try to look around and find people who continue to live fascinating and wonderful lives. How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life?  Then pause and observe for awhile… the place to start pondering is within yourself. So start looking inside instead of outside.

How does one become genuinely happy? Step 1 is to love yourself.

To love oneself means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve your repertoire to recover from mistakes. When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something else, and to something else. But if you keep questioning and complaining about life, it’ll never do you any good and you will never be able to find genuine happiness.

Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all the things you now have – truly, you know the answer to the question “how to be genuinely happy.”

I believe that life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in a person’s life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But this should not hinder us from becoming happy.

Imagine life as a big score board like those which are used in the NFLs. Every time you take a step forward, you make scoring points. Wouldn’t it be nice to look at that board at the end of each game and think to yourself  “Whew! I got a point today. I’m glad I gave it a shot.”, instead of looking at it all blank and murmur  “Geez, I didn’t even hit a score today. I wish I had the guts to try out. We could have won!” and then walk away.

Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the expensive car, nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the highest 13th month pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes, the most sought after prizes in life doesn’t always go to the fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best. So, how do you become genuinely happy?  Every one has his own definition of ‘happiness’. Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success.

So, it’s actually really simple to become genuinely happy. You don’t have to have the best things in this world. Its about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self “ Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you carry with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may spread out like a bush fire. It’s about enjoying the simple pleasure of life, to enjoy the moments, even how insignificant it may be – that will make you a genuinely happy person.

When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass step 1 in the project “how to become genuinely happy”.  For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love ten folds back.

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