Part One: Happiness
by jedda · 33 things on Twos
- Wake up every morning with the idea that something wonderful is possible today.
- Find gratitude after a job loss
- Let the heaviness of being successful be replaced by the lightness of starting over
- This new beginning is the start of a different story, the opportunity to refresh your life, to reinvent who you are.
- Find gratitude when someone you love dies
- Limits illuminate beauty, and death is the ultimate limit -- a reminder that we need to celebrate this beautiful person, and appreciate this beautiful thing called life.
- Death is an opportunity to celebrate a person's life, and to ultimately be grateful for the beauty they showed us.
- Quit trying to control the uncontrollable
- Some forces are out of your control, but you can always control how you react.
- ⭐️ Quit talking down on yourself
- Quit living in another time and place
- Don't fantasize about being on vacation while at work, and don't worry about the work piling up on your desk when you're on vacation.
- Quit trying to be someone you're not
- ⭐️ One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
- Avoid using failed relationships as an excuse
- Sometimes life puts you in touch with people you need to meet -- to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become.
- Avoid overlooking what you have, to focus on what you don't
- Instead of thinking about what you're missing, think about what you have that everyone else is missing.
- Avoid constantly sacrificing your own happiness for everyone else
- ⭐️ Never let your own happiness wither away as you try to bring sunshine to others. Life is not about making others happy. Life is about being honest and sharing your happiness with them.
- Appreciate life's perfect moments
- Your life isn't perfect, but it does have perfect moments. Don't let the little things get you down.
- Help the people around you smile
- ⭐️ Kindness is free, but it's priceless
- Act like today is already an awesome day
- Research shows that although we think that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act.
- Stop tolerating: Your own negative thinking
- Sometimes the only thing you need to shift in order to experience more happiness, more love, and more success, is your way of thinking
- Stop tolerating: Unhealthy relationships
- You don’t need lots of friends to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are.
- ⭐️ Often we walk away not because we want others to realize our worth, but because we finally realize our own
- Appreciate what you have
- ⭐️ Happiness is there, wrapped in beauty and hidden delicately between the seconds of your life.