The Easiest Way to Find Happiness in Your Life | Gill Mathias

Hello again, Gill Mathias here.

Are you on a quest to find happiness? While happiness might feel elusive or out of your reach at times, that doesn’t make it an impossible journey or goal to achieve. On the contrary, happiness could be waiting for you around the next corner if you just hang on.

The easiest way to find happiness everyday.

Or, it might be even simpler than that. Happiness might have been with you all along—you just may not have taken the time to realise it was much less complicated than you once believed. You probably know it’s not about driving the newest car or having the latest gadget. But, what is it that really drives happiness? Let’s consider options from around the world to answer that question.

Always Be Improving

So, what is it that makes us happy: getting what we want or having what we want? Paradoxically, it seems that it’s not the state of “being married” that makes us the happiest, but rather dynamic events such as “starting a new relationship.”

In the same way research shows that “getting a new job” had a greater effect on happiness than employment status. “Becoming pregnant” had a greater effect on happiness than “being a parent.” Similarly, events such as “starting a new course,” “passing an exam,” or “buying a new house” were all also high on the happiness scale.

Surround Yourself With Happy People

Does our happiness depend on the happiness levels of the people around us?

Startlingly, the results show that to be precisely the case.

People who are surrounded by happy people are more likely to become happy in the future.

For example, if you have a friend who lives within a mile of you and that friend is happy, the odds of you also becoming happy increase by about 25%. The same is true for spouses, siblings living within a mile, and next-door neighbours. .

What does all this mean? Surround yourself with happy people as much as possible, because it’s very likely that their happiness will spread to you.

Recall Positive Memories.

When I am working with my clients I find that simply thinking back to a time in their life when they had overcome a challenge or to a time when they went through a significant life experience that had changed them for the better was effective in boosting mood, and therefore increased happiness.

The common thread, however, is that happiness is ever-changing and your happiness mood can always be boosted. If you truly want to pursue happiness, surround yourself with positivity and see beyond your present circumstances to the bigger picture, both in terms of people and your place in the greater universe.

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