Everyone wants to be happy. However, happiness comes from the inside, and you will want to work on your inner world to start enjoying your life sincerely.
Forget About the Others
Your own experience is priceless. Everybody respects independent and self-confident people, but this does not mean that they never make mistakes. The key is that you need to analyze yourself objectively and not to base your evaluations on criteria of others. Just never look back in the search of approval or condemnation.
Keep Neutral: Watch from the Side
They can see the situation from the side. Sometimes it is very difficult. Chinese saying claims that you should watch your life as a monkey, which sits on a tree, watching the battle of two tigers. This will allow you to make the right decisions and not to waste energy in situations, which are not worth a fight.
5 Minutes to Remember
Such things as missed opportunities, or failures of your past are not worth your time and energy. American scientists insist, that repent for the lose should take less than five minutes.
Keep a Feeling of a Novelty
Whereas people reach something, they enjoy their success for a little time and the feeling of a novelty disappears. It is necessary to remember the moments of your victories. The happy episodes should be a promotor of the future wins.
Laugh at Yourself
Happy persons can laugh over themselves. If you are ironic in relation to yourself, you will be able to be invulnerable. The skill to genuinely laugh at yourself is a component of the forceful spirit. Such persons are not afraid of any stereotypes or preconceptions. This is precisely linked with joy and happiness.
Carpe Diem
Individuals, who live under the burden of the past faults and gloomy experience and under the fear of the failure in the future do not live at all.
Appreciation Is the Key
Happy people really know how to be thankful. This comes from the heart. The appreciation can change your life into a real miracle. The fact is that, when you thank somebody, you concentrate on what you have. You should be grateful even for what will happen in the future.
Discover the World
Another great habit of the happy people is their eagerness to discover the world and never stop to learn from the books, traveling, new interests and foreign languages.
Never Get Envious
Although we discover the world through comparison and evaluation, there is no need to put yourself in line with others. Compare you with yesterday’s yourself only. If you got better, you are doing great!
Choose Your Surrounding
Robert Greene says, that misery can be detrimental to you, because emotional states are as infectious as diseases. So, if you are willing to become a happy person, exchange emotions and share moments with happy people, and make others happy with your deeds.