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Have you ever witnessed some people who live in a poor environment and with extreme obstacles laid before them and wonder how on earth do they manage to still be happy in their life?

It’s like talking to people who are handicapped in life but are the most driven people you will ever meet.

How about reading stories on how the Rich and Famous are statistics of the un-happiest people on earth? It’s not about just the saying of Money doesn’t bring happiness its actually a little more simple than that.

Gratitude – a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation

Gratitude is such a powerful and positive emotion that is often untapped for its potential.  We may express gratitude on some Holidays like during Thanksgiving or Christmas but what about a daily affirmation and habit.

The secret behind Gratitude in relationship with being Happy is that expressing Gratitude allows yourself to feel blessed on the things you have right now in your life.  You feel thankful for the things that are often taken for granted or just thankful for anything in your life in general.  One thing you could always be grateful for is being alive if you can’t think of anything at the very moment.

Let’s choose to become more grateful.

Complaints

Once you force yourself to look at your life in a different perspective and become happy and content with what you have in life right now is the first step in realizing that the less complaints you have in your life, the more happy you are.

Complaining and venting is a natural emotion that we experience daily, however let’s try to reduce the complaints about life and start focusing on the positives in life.  Let’s start looking at things with a Gratitude perspective by first realizing why we should be happy and the more we realize that we don’t need to complain the more Happier we will be.

If  you stop and think about what I just wrote, it’s simple.  If you don’t complain and be grateful for what you have, you will always be happy.  It’s that simple!

Now I realize that this will not be an overnight habit change and that it’s virtually impossible not to complain but try focusing on the major complaints and stop yourself and ask is it really worth the complaint? Because all it’s doing is hindering your happiness and after all our goal in life is to lead healthy and happy lives, so let’s stop the complaining and start focusing on becoming more happy!

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