Sow And Reap Your Own Happiness

One of my favorite expressions is that “you reap what you sow”.
While I often hear it used negatively by someone who expects
some “chickens to come home to roost” I prefer to think of it
as something positive. How comforting to think that all our
hard work and toil will be rewarded with a crop of something
good? How wonderful to think that putting love and care into
some project or person will indeed be rewarded.

Of course, while most Americans give lip service to the notion
of our right to pursue happiness, all too many people do not
really believe it applies to them. Many people simply believe
they don’t deserve happiness. And even those few who do believe
it seem to accept unhappiness as simple bad luck.

Every person does indeed deserve happiness and what is more
happiness is contagious. The more happy people there are around
then even more people will find happiness. We owe it ourselves
to work on our own happiness and we owe it to society as well.
Our own happiness will help others and inspire others to find
happiness. If we are unhappy then we are likely making others
unhappy as well (even if unintentionally) and it is extremely
unlikely we are doing much to contribute to the happiness of
others.

So how do you become a happy person? You simply reap your own
happiness. But how? Take these four simple steps:

Step one — Ready Yourself For Happiness

You can accomplish this step by first determining that you want
to be happy. Part of being happy is wanting to be happy. Once
you have committed yourself to the course of finding happiness
for yourself then you must rid yourself of the notion that
happiness is luck or based on possessions or persons. No thing
and no one can make you happy. Happiness comes from within
yourself.

Step two — Envision Yourself As Happy

Every day when you first wake up and at various points during
the day spend some time envisioning yourself as a happy person.
Picture yourself laughing, smiling, relaxing. Imagine yourself
as happy. The more you can fix this image of yourself as happy
in your mind then the easier it will be for you to truly become
happy.

Step three — Assume You Will Be Happy

Many people tend to assume that they will spend much of their
lives either unhappy or at least not really happy. However we
have all seen those people who do seem to be genuinely happy
with their lives. They smile frequently, laugh often, and seem
to be in good humor most of the time. Yet this is not because
they are richer or more successful. Sometimes these people were
just born with the good fortune to have an optimistic outlook
that life has not yet knocked out of them, but often these
people have simply chosen that they will be happy and they
recognize that there is always something about their lives that
makes them happy. You know this is true of yourself as well.
Concentrate on the areas of your life that give you happiness
whenever you feel unhappiness seeping in and no matter what
assume that you will be, you can be, a happy person.

Step four — Pursue Your Happiness

Happiness is rarely a wonderful accident of fate. Happiness is
rarely found by accident. While you may find happiness in
unexpected places you must first open yourself to the
possibility of happiness and prepare yourself to accept it when
you find it. Some people are so miserable that they step right
around happiness when they encounter. Don’t let this happen to
you. What is more, don’t simply sit at home waiting for
happiness to come knocking on your door. Go out and live life.
Think about what currently makes you happy and spend time in
those activities and think about what might make you happy and
spend time experimenting. The more time you spend actively
living your life then the more likely that you will also lead a
happy life.

Remember, you deserve a happy life and you can lead a happy
life, but in the end you reap what you sow. If you are sowing
happiness in your life then you will reap happiness as well.

About The Author: Deanna Mascle shares more inspirational
writings in her blog at http://WordsOfInspirationOnline.info

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Ray Burton is a personal training business owner, online writer and growing net entrepreneur. He is also the author of the controversial workout e-book, The Fat 2 Fit Program which is also part of his passive income sources along with the membership site FitterFast.com.

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