It
only takes a small shift in your perception to become a more optimistic person
and increase the amount of joy in your life on a daily basis. If you were to review your days over the past
week, analysing how many hours of the day you were genuinely happy, what kind
of percentage would you come up with?
I
set myself this very task, and can honestly say that 75% of my days are now filled
with joy. Unfortunately, I would not
have been able to make this statement a few months ago, because my days weighted
very heavily upon me being very unhappy with only a few moments of happiness occurring
throughout the day. Thus, I would have
given myself a rough estimate of about 25% happy and the rest of the day spent in
the doldrums.
I
would look at the perceived negatives in my life, desperately hunting for a
solution only to find myself mired deeper in a depression because I could not
find one. All I did was attract more of
the same feelings and found myself on a proverbial merry go round. The more I thought about it the more unhappy
I became!
There
were two key elements that helped me turn my happiness percentage so high, first
I developed a high level of gratitude on a daily basis for everything that I
had and secondly, my optimism! Once I took ownership that ALL my feelings were
generated by the thoughts in my head,
I made a conscious decision not to blame anyone or anything outside of myself as
the cause of my misery.
I
then asked myself two questions to everyone one of my worries, “what is the very worst
that could happen and is it happening right now?” Usually the last part of the question would
result in an emphatic answer of no because most, if not all, of the scenarios
that I was concerned about, were created in my head and that is the key to
unlocking your unhappiness! Get out of your head with your usual way of
thinking because if your percentage is quite low (less than 50%) it is a clear
sign that you are in need a new way of thinking!
Have
a very thoughtful weekend.
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