Are you Happy?
Really happy?

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Published by Rachelle Disbennett-Lee
Sunday, December 9, 2001

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Life is too short not to be happy. The trick is to find our own happiness based on who we are. Happiness is an inside job. There isn't anyone or anything that can make us happy. Yes, externals can add to our happiness, but we are the only ones who can truly create our happiness.

Happiness is an inside feeling. It has to do with being happy with who we are, not what we have or who is in our life. Being happy means enjoying and liking ourselves regardless of any external conditions. Happiness isn't about doing; it is about being. Being content and satisfied with who we are.

Happiness is about living our passion and being passionate about living. Happiness is about connecting with others in a powerful and positive way. Happiness is about living up to our full potential.

Coaching

Happiness is about being who we are and loving ourselves. The art of being happy takes time and is a process. So many of us are seeking our happiness from external conditions such as jobs, relationships and material things. None of those things can make us happy only we can bring ourselves happiness. Once we realize that, the process of creating happiness from the inside becomes easier. It isn't that those external things don't add to our happiness. It is just that we are not dependant on them to make us happy.

If we allow our happiness to be controlled by outside circumstances, when those circumstances change, so will our happiness. When we create an inner happiness that isn't dependent on other things or people, we create a lasting happiness that doesn't go away. We can choose to be happy even when outside circumstances are not what we want them to be.

Have you found your inner happiness?

Daily Success Formula

Happiness = Inside job

Quotes

"No one is really successful who is not happy." Hartman Rector Jr.

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness." William E. Gladstone

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." Douglas Jerrold
Coach Rachelle Disbennett-Lee

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