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The Secret to Happiness Is 10 Specific Behaviors

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The Secret to Happiness Is 10 Specific Behaviors

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Happiness is the purpose of life. Despite this, only one in three Americans say they're very happy. Several years ago in an interview with Conan O'Brien, Louis C. K. tells of flying on a newly equipped Wi-Fi airplane. He was amazed by the new technology. Until, during the flight, the Wi-Fi went down.

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10 Behaviors for Happiness

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Let go of the need for specific outcomes
Define your own success and happiness
Fully commit to the things that make you happy
Be grateful for what you already have
Say “I love you” more
Have hobbies directed toward your dreams
Don’t postpone what you can do now
Do something every day that terrifies you
Put “the Important” before “the Urgent”
Forgo the good to pursue the best.

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The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It's Usefulness - Darius Foroux

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For the longest time, I believed that there's only one purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It's to achieve happiness in some way. And I'm not the only person who believed that.

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Happiness can’t be a goal in itself. Therefore, it’s not something that’s achievable.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerso...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is merely a byproduct of usefulness. You don’t have to change the world or anything. Just make it a little bit better than you were born. When you do little useful things every day, it adds ...

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Four Great Gratitude Strategies

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Over the past two decades, much of the research on happiness can be boiled down to one main prescription: give thanks. Across hundreds of studies, practicing gratitude has been found to increase positive emotions, reduce the risk of depression, heighten relationship satisfaction, and increase resilience in the face of stressful life events, among other benefits.

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Count your blessings

Spend 5 to 10 minutes at the end of each day writing in detail about three things that went well that day, large or small, and also describing why you think they happened.

Mental subtraction

You don’t know what you’ve got till its gone.

Consider the many ways in which important, positive events in your life—such as a job opportunity or educational achievement—could have never taken place, and then reflecting on what your life would be like without them.

Savor

We have a tendency to adapt to pleasurable things—a phenomenon called “hedonic adaptation”—and appreciate them less and less over time.

We can interrupt this process by trying the Give it Up practice, which requires temporarily giving up pleasurable activities and then coming back to them later, this time with greater anticipation and excitement.

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7 Awesome Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

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There are a number of integral life lessons from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. If you believe you'll only be happy after financial or material success, this story is for you. Because this story helps us reevaluate our definition of leadership, success, and true happiness.

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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

It is a story about materialistic success transforming into true prosperity. The personality development journey of both characters from the book is a guidebook to life.

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Positive Thoughts

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts. Mastering your mind means seeing setbacks as opportunities.
Occupy your mind with uplifting thoughts, because they will give you the energy you'll need to attain the success you desire.

How To Attain Your Goal

Visualize your goal.
Keep yourself positively motivated.
Make a deadline.
Take steps daily.
Laugh along the way.

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