Happiness is a Choice!

[The Option Institute]

Lovely people,

It can seem, to most of us, that our happiness or unhappiness is a product of the events in our lives, especially when we are facing a difficult time. This isn't surprising, given that from a young age we see fear, grief, anger, frustration and anxiety as the "normal" and "appropriate" responses to challenging events.

The Happiness Option Weekend is a concise program designed to point you in a new direction and give you some concrete take-home tools to move past emotional challenges, enhance personal happiness and begin to overcome any crises you may be facing. Isn't your long-term happiness worth a short weekend?

Watch and learn more. Click here!

Love,

The Option Institute

[janicelou]

True, The emotions you are feeling can be directly controled to a point. You can feel happy the second you decide to feel happy.

[afraidcrrazy]

"Happiness is a choice."
I understand what that means. But for me - and I'm speaking for myself - it is very difficult to implement this observation. "I wake up every morning and decide to be happy," said one person for me. I can not really do that. It's too ... enormous.

What works best for me is deciding what changes in my life would make me happier, and choose to make those changes. The same idea, just a different way of putting it into action.

For example, I realized that our mornings were not as happy a time as could be. There was plenty of land, persistent, moaning, and shuffling. So choose:

• up an hour earlier than my family, so I have plenty of time to prepare myself before helping others to prepare, which means I have to also ...
• go to bed early to get up at 6: 00 am, and still feel well rested, and also ...
• make a "tidy-up night" every night, so I feel I have to run around, tidying the house, as part of the morning routine
• sing in the morning to set a cheerful tone
• make a deliberate effort not to "speak with one voice say," as my youngest daughter gets
• Make an effort not to repeat again and again: "Put on your shoes," "Is the backpack full", etc?
• touch everyone in my house with affection
• give my husband a kiss goodbye true

For me, it's easier for me to imagine making this election the choice to be happy. I do better when I keep my very specific purposes.
..............silk greenery.......................