Choose Happiness

Do you recognize happiness?  Can you look at somebody and tell if they are truly happy?  There are plenty of people who appear to have every reason in the world for happiness, who are in fact miserable. And there are others who seem to have no reason at all to be happy, yet they are as happy as can be.  Why? Because happiness is not a result, happiness is a cause. 

Don't wait for happiness.  Choose to be happy now.  If you wait for a reason to be happy, that reason will likely never come. Choose to be happy now even though there’s no reason for it, and pretty soon an abundance of reasons will begin to appear.

We create our reasons.  Smile, and you will find much to smile about. Be thankful, and you will begin to realize all the reasons for being thankful.  Choose to create your reasons.  Choose to be happy.  Refuse to put conditions on your happiness.  If you make your happiness conditional, you’ll limit it and drive it away. 

My challenge for you is that instead of waiting for happiness to flow toward you, let it flow from you. Choose happiness and it will never fail to find its own very good reasons in your life.  Choose happiness today.