How to be Happy ?

( Guidelines to develop self confidence and happiness )

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"How To Be Happy"

1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. ~

2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears. ~

• Perhaps above all, be as healthy as you can. Nothing is more valuable than your health and little is more likely to make you unhappy than ill-health. For many tips on how to be healthy.

   

• Most fundamentally, recognise that happiness is a state of mind and not something which can be defined objectively. You can change your state of mind in many ways including the following suggestions.

   

• More importantly than anything else, live with a partner whom you love and respect and who feels the same about you. Kiss and cuddle and compliment often and regularly buy unexpected little gifts.

   

• When you're old enough and in a steady relationship, have a son or a daughter. Tell them often how much you love and admire him/her and do anything to help him/her.

   

• Keep in close touch with relatives and a small circle of friends. You can't beat their love and support.

   

• Conversely, if there is a person in your life who is a negative influence and who is dragging you down in some way, don't be afraid to get remove such a person from your life.

   

• Smile a lot. Smiles make you miles better - and you smiling will make others smile. As Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) put it: “Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.”

   

• Laugh a lot.

   

• Say what you mean and mean what you say. Honesty really is the best policy.

   

• Be politely assertive. Say how you feel and explain what you want. Friends and colleagues can't be mind readers.

   

• Give lots of compliments. You will make others feel good about themselves and find that this gives you pleasure too.

   

• Give small gifts to your friends. To give is even more pleasurable than to receive.

   

• For a special thrill, perform acts of kindness anonymously so that the person benefiting does not know that you're responsible. If you don't understand this, watch the French film "Amélie"
   
• When your birthday or Christmas is coming, prepare a list of the presents you'd like and give it to a partner, relative or friend to 'manage'. That way people won't struggle to choose a gift for you and you'll receive what you want and like.

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