Suggested by: Janet Schlarbaum

By Eric Ayite

There a few things that will be more detrimental to you than the control that you let outside factors have on your life. If you want to be happy, it is very advisable that you do everything in your power to decide to have a lot of control on your own life.

Many people decide that they will be happy when they have a new car or when they have a new job. Guess what? After they buy the car of they get the job, they are still not happy. There is something missing in their life. And because of that, they are not happy.

Often, we have so many things to be grateful about but we focus just on what we do not have. And we become unhappy because of what is missing in our life instead of being happy and grateful for what we have.

If your happiness is based on outside circumstances of material things, you will NEVER be happy. The reason behind that is very simple: you will never have all the material things in life and you will never have all life circumstances under your control. Most circumstances that affect your life will depend on other people that share the world with you and situations that you cannot control.

If you want to be happier in life, decide to be grateful for what you have and whom you are instead of focusing on what you lack in your life and whom you wished you were.

There are many steps that you can take to become happier in your life:

-Do not compare yourself to other people: there is a reason why we are created different. If there was a reason for all people to be similar, the creator would have made us so. Be grateful for your particularities and be happy you have skills that can complement other people’s skills

-Take time to enjoy the nature: watch the sunset, take walk on the beach, smell the roses. Life is too short to be always in hurry.

-Take time to relax and meditate very often. That will regenerate your spirit and give you the opportunity to truly live.

-Do not seek other people’s acceptance in order to be happy. Be happy whether other people accept it or not.

-Have a social life. Studies have shown that people who live a lonely life tend to live shorter lives than those who are surrounded by friends and family.

-Do not take yourself too seriously. Take time to laugh at yourself and at life

Most people think that money and a lot of it is what they need in order to be happy. They are dead wrong. Studies have repeatedly shown that the richest countries in the world are not the happiest. The conclusion we can draw from that is simple: money is not the only and certainly not the most important factor in making people happy

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