Happiness is a difficult feeling to define and understand. We were taught to be responsible and successful, but what about happy?

Happiness comes from the inside, but there can be a lot of external factors that affect how happy we are. Look at your life, your job, your stuff and your relationships and see if you really feel good about them. If you don’t, then consider these tips to help keep your smile until the end of the day.

Put yourself first. Self care is one of the most important things to one’s health and well-being. If you put everyone else in front of you, you spend all your energy and time making others happy and instead of considering your own happiness. Read our other article regarding putting yourself first.

Say “no.” In order to gain respect in the world, you have to stay firm on your decisions, even if they may not correlate with other people’s values. Instead of going out of your way and being the “yes” gal, be selective of who you say “yes” to and nicely say “no” to the others. Don’t avoid saying things that need to be said.

Focus on yourself. Look at what you have accomplished every week and think about what made you proud. Then, consider the things that you can try to improve on the following week and note what was hard. By analyzing your daily living, you start to have more purpose in your days rather than just chugging along and not thinking. I am not pushing you to be a selfish person, but you just need to know what makes you happy first before you can even reach out to enrich other lives and your community.

Slow down. A huge reason people don’t find happiness is due to the fact that they have so much to do. If you have a to-do list that fills up your day, you don’t have time to really enjoy yourself. Sometimes you may even find yourself SO busy that it never even crosses your mind whether you’re unhappy. Time flies, but our perception of time can change if we just slowed down. Read our other article about taking your time back. Learn to eliminate the things that get in the way of doing what you love.

In the end, there are various obstacles to happiness. Remember to give yourself permission to feel good about yourself. Never put down your own happiness because you feel it may make others feel bad. While money cannot buy happiness, you just have to be honest with yourself and be aware of how you feel. Knowledge is power.

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