What Happiness Means

May 26, 2004

BE HAPPY ZONE
By Lionel Ketchian

Happiness means that you can become a wholly functioning human being. Happiness means that you are able to experience your aliveness. Happiness means you will experience the very best that life has to offer. It may not be money, or power or fame, but it is the very best that life holds for you. It means that first and foremost you are happy no matter what happens. Happiness is the most important thing you can do. Nothing is more important than happiness. Happiness is the ultimate reason you do things because you want them to bring you happiness. Happiness simply means that you start with happiness in order to experience happiness.

Happiness is the essential quality of being responsible and taking charge. Happiness means taking full responsibility for your life. Happiness is taking control of the one thing in the world that you can control, and that is yourself. It means realizing that you cannot be happy unless you are in control of yourself. Happiness means not trying to control other people. You recognize that many times you have no control of the situations, events, and experiences in life. Happiness means taking charge of your life. It means taking back the very personal job of deciding what is good for you, and running your own show.

Happiness gives you the ability to successfully cope with meeting challenges. Happiness means that you can show yourself that you can do things you never thought you could. Happiness infuses you with the energy to have the power to take command of any situation. It gives you a decisive attitude even when you think you can't. Happiness means that you understand the value that happiness brings into your life. It means that you have values as a human being. It means that you have respect for yourself and for others. Happiness means that you consider virtue to be a sacred and important thing.

Happiness means that you are practicing emotional competence. This means that you have the ability to make good choices from a healthy and happy state of mind. Happiness is a method of reassuring yourself that you have the wisdom to think clearly about whatever happens. Happiness means that you can trust yourself to make the best choices that will get you where you want to go. This allows you to live the life you choose to live. It means that you do not have to allow yourself to be forced into acting the way your family, friends, and loved ones think you should. Happiness gives you the ability to take action, and you become comfortable with who you are. Happiness means that you can realize the best of health as a result of maintaining a positive attitude. Happiness means finding out that you are really OK. It means that you trust yourself because you know how to live.

Happiness means doing what you can, when you can, rather than waiting for something to change on it's own. Happiness means finding the solutions to a problem, than making the best choice for now. Happiness means never volunteering to make yourself a victim. Happiness means that you become proactive using wisdom and common sense to make the change you want to see in the next moment, rather than react to the moment from your past conditioning.

Happiness makes you feel like you can change the world because you are taking control of yourselves from the inside out. Happiness means that you can deal with what you cannot change. It means that you realize things are only temporary and if you really want change it will happen. Happiness means that you can be patience in order to get what you want because you will be getting soon. It means that you can experience being stronger smarter, freer and more fully yourself in the process.

Happiness means that you can access new habits to empower yourself. It means that you can tap into the power to…just do it! Happiness means that you can deal with difficult people. It means that you have the capacity to deal with anger when it arises. Happiness means that you can cope with fear and anxiety because you can see your way through it. It means that you can stop feeling guilty and let go of the past. Happiness means that you may forgive people and stop labeling them. It means that you are free of self-doubt and despair.

Happiness means that you can change for the better without feeling helpless. It means that you can learn new skills because nothing is holding you back any longer. Happiness means that you can come to the decision that unhappiness is not an option. It means that you can experience who you really are. Happiness means that you may learn more about your life, and your relationships.

Happiness is the most powerful decision you can make. Happiness gets you what you want in life. Happiness means that you value peace. It means that you have found peace within. Happiness means that you will spread it to others in a peaceful way.

Being happy is the only way to find happiness. Being happy means that you get to keep the experience of happiness. Happiness cannot be uncovered in the past or found in the future. Happiness is only in this moment. Happiness cannot be found at all. You must…become it. When you become happy you will find that…it becomes you. Happiness means that you are becoming a Healthy Happy Human.

Lionel Ketchian is the founder of the Happiness Club, a Happiness Coach, and can be reached at PrintLRK@aol.com. The Web site is http://www.happinessclub.com/.