Writing Your Own Happiness Starts With Being Grateful



  "It's not happy people who are thankful, it's thankful people who are happy."

I love this quote and think of it often.

 

We spend our lives in the pursuit of happiness. When you think about it, we are bombarded from childhood. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television, each telling us how to go about being happy and what we should buy to make ourselves happy. We buy into it too! We convince ourselves that we won't be happy unless we have it. Whatever "IT" is. This toy! That car! Those shoes! Face cream, lipstick, Spanx, Jeggings. If they're selling, we're buying! I know I've bought into it more times than I care to recall.

 

From the Power of Intention to The Secret, the message is the same. If you spend your life thinking about everything you want and all of the things you don't have, you remain in a state of wanting and that never brings happiness to anyone. I know, because I've been there! I lived there for a very long time. Don't get me wrong, I've always thought the perfect lip gloss could change the world, but when it comes right down to it, I discovered that the joy is temporary.

 

People who are recognized as people who always look on the bright side or always see the glass half full are people who have discovered that  living each day celebrating the things they are grateful for is the very thing that will bring them happiness and it doesn't cost a thing!

 

Writing your own happiness starts with gratitude. It's remembering all of the good things that you have in your life that allows you to stay in a positive mind set and a positive mind set is where health and success grow.

 

My challenge to you is to spend a day, ONE DAY of appreciation. This is a day of no complaining, no negativity and NO STINKIN' THINKIN'! Be grateful for waking up in the morning! Be grateful for wherever or whatever you have to do for the day! Be grateful for whoever you see or talk to! Take life in and be grateful for all of it! At the end of the day ask yourself...What emotion am I feeling? I dare you to attempt happiness!