I recently came across a blog that I thought did an exceptional job of outlining how to be happy. Here are their 7 steps to happiness:
1. You choose: Make your own decisions, don't let other people make them for you.
2. Focus on the present. Not yesterday or tomorrow.
3. Don't forget to be grateful.
4. Help someone else find happiness.
5. Simplify: Eliminate
6. Do what you like to do.
7. Or at least do something.
After reading through these I came to a couple conclusions about my journey to find inner happiness. The first is that I need to live more in the present. Thinking about what has happened in the past is a waste because (1) you can't do anything to change what has already happened and (2) looking at the past sometimes just makes us regret what we have done which does not lead to happiness. In my case, looking at my future has been detrimental because I could be imagining a life that has no chance of happening. Simplifying things is also something that I can work on in the near future. I feel like there is so much excess in life and it's hard to really appreciate the best things when you're drowning in many things that are unimportant.
As this quarter winds down I'm going to continue working towards happiness and just doing me.
Happy March.
Kat
