“No one is in charge of your happiness except you” was one of the 39 points from last week’s posting of “Handbook 2010.” See http://rosiebrownrn.com/handbook-2010/
This weekend I read a series of articles on happiness, and most all of the articles echoed the same sentiment. This weekend I also received the following bit of advice via email:
“I read an interesting article the other day. It was an article about 10 things we can do to make ourselves happier in 2010. It was saying that we can control how happy we are because 40% of our happiness is controlled by us.”
“The big one that I am now looking into is interesting. I’ll try and summarize it. It was saying that we need to stop hanging on to things just because of the ‘investment’ we’ve made or how ‘comfortable’ it makes us feel. It was saying to ignore all past things and say to yourself, ‘If I had just gotten into this situation, dealing with these things, would I stick with it?’ It’s really interesting because I know so many people who that fits…not a single one is truly happy. NOT A SINGLE ONE.”
How many of us hang on to something or someone because it feels “comfortable?” How much personal growth takes place in “comfortable?”
If you find yourself in a comfortable spot, and your inner self nudges you to attempt something new or different, how easy is it for you to move forward? How secure do you feel? Do you find yourself asking the opinion of every person in the food chain? If so, listen to today’s daily message from Abraham:
“Your joy factor will remain constant as you are continually refining your ideas of what you want, and that’s why it is so important for you to get everybody else out of the equation. They’ve got their own game going on; they don’t understand your game. Give them a break; stop asking them what they think. Start paying attention to how you feel. Joy will be yours immediately, and everything else that you have ever thought would make you happy, will start flowing, seemingly effortlessly, into your experience.”
The degree of happiness you experience seems to be directly proportional to the degree you pay attention to how you feel. Feelings don’t lie. It either feels good or it doesn’t.
So cliché, but to thine own self be true…no one is in charge of your happiness except you.
