Use these Ten Keys for Finding Happiness in Your Life
1. Live on purpose. Joyful aliveness connects you with your purpose. Learn the skills you need to create happiness. Discover the activities and
pursuits that make your heart sing! These engaging activities provide clues to your purpose and will assist you in finding happiness. If you want to
maintain desperation and unhappiness, then believe that life has no purpose.
2. Find Happiness right now. No other time exists for experiencing happiness. Only the present moment contains the spark of life! You may also create
misery by constantly wanting to speed ahead to some other time. Most people live their lives wanting to exist elsewhere and elsewhen.
3. Accept total responsibility for your life! You create your reality and your emotions. Your power and focus exceed your wildest dreams. You can
choose to blame and whine, pretending that your life situation came from without, rather than from within. As within, so without. Accept total
responsibility for all.
4. Act in boldness. Take on challenges and pursue lofty goals. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles provide some of the most exquisite joys in life. To
create misery, play it totally safe. Never do anything scary, risky, or out of the ordinary. Follow your fears and let them control your actions. For
happiness and joy - feel the fear, and do it anyway!
5. Expect happiness. Hope consists of a perfect expectation of desirable things to come. Picture desirable things to come. You choose what to think
about, and what to visualize in your mind's eye! Imagine yourself finding happiness. Despair consists of a perfect expectation of undesirable things to
come. To increase despair, simply imagine in detail terrible things that may happen to you. The better your imagination, the deeper the despair. You
get what you truly expect, so expect happiness.
6. Increase your awareness. Feel your emotions consciously. Identify your core beliefs. Constantly learn and grow from the inside. Your unhealthy
attitudes, habits, and behaviors will start to drop away like fall leaves. To maintain apathy and misery, just remain unaware. Allow clarity to flee from
you like a deer from a hunter. Remain in unconsciousness and cloudiness - afraid to explore your beliefs.
7. Build your connections. Our relationships give life meaning and happiness. All of us truly connect to one another in the inner world. Building
connections in the physical world builds on this inner reality and helps us in finding happiness. To create misery, simply separate yourself from others.
Think that you exist as an independent entity, and other people merely drag you down. Insist on separateness and division. Deny the truth of
connectedness and pursue unreality.
8. Learn to know yourself daily. We grow in large measure due to the people we meet and the realizations we have. Did you take time out for some
quiet moments to learn more about yourself last year? Did you foster more friendships? We create happiness when we grow and increase our wisdom.
To prevent happiness, try not to meet any new people this year, and keep your lives very busy – leaving no time for spiritual realizations. Simply stay
just the same person with the exact same ideas. For optimal joy, go for optimal growth and learning!
9. Serve other people. Truly recognize that other people have needs and wants just like your own. Think about how you can bring a smile to someone,
and then do it! Give love and compassion in every encounter. Service is a huge key for finding happiness in your life. To create misery, ignore other
people and totally concern yourself with your own needs. Don't think of other people’s needs and desires.
10. Enjoy your Life. Know your goals and purposes, and put power and faith into every action. Treat others as you would want them to treat you –
knowing that they are living in this impermanent world – in the same condition as you. Realize they want to be happy as much as you do and know that
they are just an extension of you. Appreciate your life and that of others. Give thanks every day for having another day to live in this amazing world,
love these amazing people, and enjoy our amazing lives.
