This blog has been included in the life coaching section of the list of 100 best blogs to help you find happiness. I’ve been having a wonderful time looking through some of the other blogs that have been included and enjoying what they have to say. Click here to see the whole list and become inspired and challenged, as I have been.
Happiness can seem so elusive and fleeting. How much do you need to be happy? How little does it take to make you happy? Can you really be happy even when things don’t seem to be going your way? I think you can, because happiness is a state of mind rather than an emotional response. Happiness can come from an overall positive approach to life that still allows us to experience supposedly negative feelings such as frustration, sadness and even anger.
What is happiness anyway? I believe happiness doesn’t depend on having or doing or experiencing something particularly fantastic. Instead it is based on being content with being who you are and living out your own special uniqueness in the world. It is about working from your particular strengths and expressing your deeply held values with integrity, not about buying things and having x number of friends on your social networking page.
Happiness isn’t measured by what you do or what you own, but by who you are. Some of the headings in the list give a clue of ways to connect with happiness in your life - simplicity; productivity; attitude; balance; relationships. . . Interestingly, wealth is last on the list. Rather than amassing money and possessions, when you give of yourself from a full heart you experience a deep true form of happiness that can’t be bought.
So, what does happiness mean to you? Share your thoughts.
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Comments:
Hi Marian,
A great blog post. Happiness is so much an inner process. Simple things and a strong sense of community around us can offer so much internal wellbeing. Many remark on how happy people who live in third world countries are. We could learn much from their approach here in the so called "developed" world.
Congrats on your blog being included in the best 100!!!!!!!!
Go well
Lynley
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Comments:
Marian,
have been reading through your website, blogs, and achievements since we last spoke - I wanted to offer my congratulations to you on finding your groove and going for it.
I hope you can be proud of who you are!
Leah
