Five Ways We Stay Unhappy
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Knowing what makes you happy comes from knowing your inner self. You are the only one who can prevent yourself from being happy, content and fulfilled. Maybe you're doing it right now. As you read this, you're holding yourself back. Here are 5 ways you might be sabotaging yourself from being truly happy.
You Refuse to Enjoy the Things Going Right in Your Life
If you are not careful, you will develop a habit where you don't really focus on the things that are going right. You don't focus on the reality that you have a roof over your head, there's food on the table, nobody breaks into your front door to rob, steal, burn, rape and kill.
You Believe Possessions Make You Happy
The more we focus on the price of things and lose sight of their value, we start believing that possessions make us worthy, and by extension, make us happy. In fact, according to a fairly recent psychological research study, people do attain a sense of happiness when they buy stuff. But here's the twist – it doesn't last all that long.
You Let Others Define Happiness For You
If you watch a lot of movies, if you read a lot of ads, or if you pay attention to gossip columnists or read a lot of opinion articles, it's very easy to be influenced. It's very easy for people who you think you respect and admire to basically call the shots as far as your values are concerned. Soon enough, you start looking at the world through their lenses.
You Think Happiness Happens to You
You have to understand that happiness and fulfillment are choices. In other words, you have to take the initiative. You have to call the shots. You have to make the decisions. It's not something that somebody hands over to you. It's not something that somebody owes you. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't come from outside of you, ultimately. It's your choice.
Are You Tired of Making the Wrong Choices that Keep You From Being Happy?
You don't have to wake up day after day and make the same decisions that you did the previous day that made you less than truly happy. You can do something about it. Download 10 Signs You Need a Personal Reboot from my website.
Good reminders all around! I am well-acquainted with someone who chooses to be perpetually dissatisfied. It makes for an unpleasant outlook on life.
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Really good points you made in here! It's so easy to get influenced and take a bunch of things for granted! Thanks for the resteem!
Also, You Refuse to Enjoy the Things Going Right in Your Life is listed twice in your post. Maybe it was intentional?