International Day of Happiness
- By Eugene Clark
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5. Happiness, like a butterfly, cannot be chased. You have to be still and let it land on your shoulder. The average person doesn't spend even 30 minutes a month in total silence and tranquillity. "Find a time and place of solitude. Look into the distance, and into the future. Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build – and begin to build that tomorrow, today." – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
6. Happiness comes from having a goal and purpose and studies show that those people who have a higher purpose in life will be healthier and live longer. Focus on the important and especially the non-urgent, but important matters. Inefficient and unhappy people spend most of their time doing the many urgent but unimportant things. The activities that tend to be ignored are those big picture items that are highly important but not urgent. Do not put these things off. Make them a priority and make sure you are doing something each day to make progress on the big goals, even though they are not urgent today. Every day, take the time to ask yourself the question "is this the best use of my time and energy?" Time management is life management so guard your time with great care.
7. Happiness comes from pursuing your passion. Do what you love; and love what you do. Do that which are most enthusiastic about and find a business model so that you can make not only a living out of it, but also a life.
8. Happiness comes from good habits. Success is most sustainable when it is founded upon good habits. One of the leading books on positive habits is Stephen Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
9. Happiness comes when we choose growth and overcome fear. Famous psychologist, Abraham Maslow, noted that in making life's decision we must chose growth over fear. Fear must be overcome again and again and learning must be chosen again and again.
10. Happiness means accepting life's challenges. Challenges are necessary to build and test our strengths. Competition makes us perform at a level that we would never push ourselves to reach in the absence of that competition. You need the dark times in order to truly appreciate the good times. Don't let hard times corrupt you or make you dark inside. Even in the midst of the worst evil, some people have been able to retain their indomitable spirit, to remain, as did Nelson Mandela through 27 years of captivity:
masters of their fate, captains of their soul.
Eugene Clark is a columnist with China.org.cn. For more information please visit: http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/eugeneclark.htm
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