Happiness is a choice

Happiness you can’t buy, it’s not an opportunity that comes to you.

1. Enjoying the present moment is a habit that takes practice. If you always look toward tomorrow for happiness, you will do the same when you attain what you’ve been dreaming of.
As strange it sounds, the ability to appreciate what’s in front of you has nothing to do with what you actually have.
It’s more about how you measure the good things in your life at any given time.
Practice wanting what you have and it will feel even sweeter when you eventually have what you want.
Look around what’s in front of you that you can enjoy?

2. Finding reasons to be happy now can benefit your future.
“positive emotion tends to broaden thought, negative emotion tends to narrow it and hold back development” expressing emotions may be stable throughout their lives and dictate personal and social success.”

3. Tuning into joy can improve your health, something that affords you many possibilities in life. Something that most people take for granted until it’s compromised.
Choose to be happy now and you’ll have more days of good health to enjoyment.

4.long-term happiness depends on your ability to notice and appreciate the details; you can have that skill right now. Once you get everything you want, you will still be subject to life’s highs and lows. If you haven’t learned to enjoy the little things, your well-being will parallel your life’s circumstances. Every time something goes wrong, you’ll feel deeply unhappy (as opposed to disappointed but determined to make the best of things).
Think about the things that fill you with the most joy—spending time with your pets, listening to the rain, and running on the beach, for example. Focus on those things right now, and let them brighten your day. That way, no matter what changes, you’ll have a variety of simple pleasures to help you through.

5. Every day is a new opportunity to be better than yesterday; that pursuit can increase your self esteem and, accordingly, your happiness. I used to be obsessed with being perfect. If I wasn’t the best at something, I couldn’t sleep at night. Becoming great never felt as good as I imagined it would because there was always room to be better. I was constantly dissatisfied and disappointed in myself.
I now look at the things I do as opportunities to get better from one day to the next. It’s more satisfying to set and meet an attainable goal, like focusing better and writing an extra article tomorrow, than it is to obsess about perfection,
By focusing on small improvements and mini-goals, you’ll naturally move yourself toward your larger dreams. And you’ll respect the way you’re doing things.

6. You can be who you want to be right now, no matter what your situation looks like. You may think life needs to change dramatically for you to be the person you want to be. That you can’t be giving unless you make more money.The truth is you can be those things at any point of time.
So you don’t have money to share. Be generous with your compassion, and listen when your friends have problems.
You never know when your nows will run out so ask yourself, “How can I be that person I want to be in this moment?”

7. Finding joy in the present moment—no matter how inadequate it may seem—makes a difference in other people’s lives. Though we all have different lists of dreams and goals, for most of us this is at the forefront : the possibility of living a meaningful life that affects other people for the better.
Happiness is a moment-to-moment choice, one that many have a hard time making. Other people will notice if you make that choice. And you will motivate them to do the same.this motivation has a substantial impact on their health and future happiness.

Happiness is about how you interpret what’s in front of you. How proud you are of the way you live your life. How willing you are to enjoy simple pleasures, even if things aren’t perfect.
Though I haven’t always done this well, today I choose to focus on the good—both in the world and myself—to feel happy right now.

It’s your turn to do the same.