Creating Happiness

Thoughts Have Consequences

Beware of the Consequences of Your Thoughts
Is Just As Important A Warning As
Beware of the Consequences of Your Actions

This is the Third Fundamental Happiness Fact

Our thoughts determine our feelings, achievements, interactions, direction, happiness and well-being.  Thoughts direct and affect everything we do. So...

Think About How You Think!

Other Happiness Habit Laws and Facts describe how thoughts work:
Our Focus Determines Our Feelings
Whatever We Focus On Expands
Our Vision Determines Our Direction

Bad thoughts can lead to bad actions, disasters and bad feelings. It's rare that we do bad things without thinking of it first.

Failure of Forethought, failure to plan ahead effectively, failure to think or failure to think wisely before we act causes as much pain as focusing on problems and negativity.

If You Don't Like The Logical Consequences Of Your Thoughts, Redirect Your Attention To Thoughts, Actions, Objectives And Activities That Build Happiness And Spiritual Success!

Think About How You Think - Consider the impact of both your thoughts and actions on your happiness, spiritual success and well-being.  If you don't like the results, redirect your thoughts to build happiness and spiritual success.

Use The Consequences Of Your Thoughts To Create Happiness And A Happy Life!

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Whatever We Focus On Expands

Whatever We Focus Our Minds On Expands In Our Consciousness - Whatever We Give Time And Attention To Grows In Our Reality

This is The Second Fundamental Happiness Fact - it is a powerful tool to build happiness and spiritual success.

By focusing time and attention on good thoughts, objectives and activities, positive pursuits expand and dominate our consciousness and reality. We can feel good by focusing on good things.

This is The First Law Of Happiness:  Our Focus Determines Our Feelings

Sadly, this Happiness Law is also very powerful with negative thoughts and thinking. By giving negative thoughts time and attention they grow in our consciousness and reality as well.  If we give negative thoughts all our time and attention they dominate our lives.

There is a key, very important difference between worrying about problems and seeking successful solutions. Focusing on problems keeps us stuck in negatively. Seeking successful solutions solves problems and salves the pain problems cause.

That's why a key Happiness Habit is to Move From Problems To Solutions Quickly.

The converse of this Fundamental Fact is also very powerful:  Whatever We Don't Give Time And Attention To Disappears From Our Consciousness.  Out of sight, out of mind.

If we don't give time or attention to people, problems, opportunities or objectives they rapid disappear from our consciousness and are replaced by whatever we are focusing time and attention on.  This can help or hurt depending on the situation.

It's critically important to identify and deal with real dangers effectively. Positive thinking that prompts people to ignore danger signs puts them in peril. See Avoid Blinding Optimism

Whatever Thought, Problem, Objective or Activity You Give Time and Attention to Grows in your Consciousness.  To Create a Happy Life, Focus Time and Attention on Positive Pursuits, Solving Problems and Building Happiness and Spiritual Success.

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Definitions of Happiness and a Happy Life

Everyone wants to be happy or happier, most of us don't know what we can do to be happier. 

Knowing what happiness is and how happiness works helps you understand what you can do to create it.

Finding good definitions for Happiness and a Happy Life is hard.  Dictionaries, encyclopedias and Internet searches don't help. 

Happiness Habit's definitions for Happiness and a Happy Life are intentionally broad so you can change them to fit your needs easily.

Happiness Is
The Excited, Elated, Enthusiastic Emotion
We Experience When We
Enjoy, Appreciate Or Achieve A Worthwhile Goal

A Happy Life Is
Pleasant and Pleasing
Purposeful and Productive
Prosperous and Spiritually Successful

(Prosperous - means whatever we are working on is bearing positive rewards.
Spiritually Successful - means living by the highest and best values in harmony with our surroundings.)

Define What Happiness Means To You and then Use It To Build A Happy Life!

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E.S.E. Your Way To Happiness

Eat, Sleep and Exercise to Energize Well-Being

Feeling great physically builds happiness, energy and a sense we are in command our lives, our direction and our feelings.

Eating poorly, getting Short On Sleep and failing to exercise regularly are draining and debilitating.

Knowing we are doing our best to feel great, perform well and stay healthy is empowering.

Eat For Good Health And Well-Being - Certain foods make us feel energized and alert for extended periods of time. Know what those foods are for and and make them central to your diet.

Choose natural foods with maximal nutritional benefits: vegetables, protein,  and fruit.  Avoid empty calories, processed foods, fats, starches and sugars.

Determine your Optimal Fit Weight - Resolve to attain and maintain that best fit weight.

Enjoy eating healthy, nutritious, delicious meals.  Avoid food that tastes good for a few moments and leaves you feeling crummy, guilty and over weight for hours, days or years.

Sleep Successfully - Waking up from a deep, sound, refreshing sleep is energizing and empowering. Getting Short On Sleep is an SOS for your happiness, productivity and well-being. 

Exercising energetically during the day helps you sleep well at night.  Dairy products like ice cream or cheese before go to bed help many people to drift off easily.

The best use of our time is often to get the sleep or the nap we need to be alert, productive and efficient.  Fatigue enhances errors, slows our responses and feels awful.

Sound Sleep is a super way to recharge productivity, well-being and happiness.

Exercise Effectively - A brisk daily twenty minute walk energizes your heart, enhances your physical fitness and sharpens your mental acuity. 

It also provides welcome private quiet time when we can be alone with our thoughts, plan our future, enjoy the exercise experience or even meditate.

Twenty minutes outside at mid day also helps stimulate the body's production of Vitamin D, a key compound for disease and infection protection.

Give your twenty minutes of daily exercise (or thirty minutes five times a week) the same priority and  importance as your shower, brushing your teeth and sound sleeping.  Try to get at least ten to fifteen minutes of sunshine a day - it stimulates Vitamin D production and your immunity to disease.

Eating, Sleeping And Exercising Builds Happiness And Spiritual Success - E.S.E. Your Way To Happiness and a Happy Life!

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The Most Important Decision We Make...

The Most Important Decision We Make On A Moment By Moment Basis Is Where We Focus Our Time And Attention

The Sum Of These Decisions Is OUR LIFE!

This is the First Fundamental Happiness Fact  

Focus Time And Attention On Thoughts, Activities And Objectives That Build Happiness, Success And Spiritual Well-Being

Happiness Habit describes how to use this series of life defining decisions to create happiness, a happy life and emotional well-being. 

Other Happiness Facts and Laws describe how Thoughts Have Consequences because Our Focus Of Attention Determines Our Feelings.

When we spend time focusing attention on interesting, exciting, challenging  subjects that enhance and expand our skills and well-being we feel energized, encouraged and empowered.

An important key to happiness is finding meaning, delight and value in activities we have to complete.

Spending time on unimportant or inconsequential activities makes us feel mediocre. If we spend all our time on inconsequential things our lives rapidly become inconsequential. That's not the way to happiness or spiritual success!

Habitually Happy people are happy because they focus their time and attention wisely to create happiness, a happy life and spiritual success. Join them!

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Happiness Laws And Facts

Creating Happiness flows from Three Fundamental Happiness Facts and The Three Laws of Happiness.

If you accept and embrace these Facts and Laws, The Happiness Habit becomes a logical extension and application of their principles.

Three Fundamental Happiness Facts or Truths:

1)  The Most Important Decision We Make On A Moment By Moment Basis Is Where We Focus Our Time And Attention.  The Sum Of These Decisions Is OUR LIFE

2)  Whatever We Focus Our Minds On Expands In Our Consciousness.  Whatever We Give Time And Attention To Grows In Our Reality

3)  Thoughts Have Consequences Just Like Actions Have Consequences. "Beware Of The Consequences Of Your Thoughts" Is Just As Important A Warning As "Beware Of The Consequences Of Your Actions"

Three Laws Of Happiness:

1)  Our Focus Of Attention Determines Our Feelings

2)  Our Vision Determines Our Direction - And Where We Look Determines What We See

3)  Our Time And Attention Are Limited

Explore and examine these links and use the Happiness Laws and Facts to create happiness and a happy life. Our other posts explain how to do this.

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Avoid The Fault Finding Feel Goods

The Fault Finding Feel Goods are all those terribly tempting tendencies to blame, criticize, judge, ridicule and complain.

We make ourselves feel good and raise ourselves up by putting something or someone else down.

We feel good on some level but we are focusing on negatives and that's not the way to happiness or spiritual success.

Calling something bad does not describe what's good. Saying something is wrong does not communicate what's right, successful or appropriate.

Criticism can be very corrosive and counter productive. It often leaves the target deflated, demoralized and confused about what they should do. 

They hear all about what's wrong and little encouragement or helpful insights describing what they can do to improve.  Criticism and control occur so often together they are practically synonymous.

Since complaining about what is wrong makes us feel good we have no vested interest in trying to improve what is wrong. It leaves us stuck in misey and unhappiness.

Remember:  Our Focus Determines Our Feelings!

To be Happy, Avoid The Fault Finding Feel Goods and All UnNecessary, NonProductive Negativity.

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Our Vision Determines Our Direction

ClWe must be able see objectives clearly in our minds eye, understand what they are and know how they work in order to attain them.

Clear Goals Define The Steps To Achieve Them - We have to know where we want to go to get there.

We have to know what happiness is, be able to see happiness clearly in our minds eye and understand how happiness works to create a  happy life.

The Second Law of Happiness Is:  Our Vision Determines Our Direction*

Everyone wants to be happy or happier, many of us are confused about exactly what we can do to be happy. Most people don't think about their own happiness very much, they don't make happiness a priority and they haven't discovered steps they can take to be happy practically any time, in any place.

Snap Quiz - Take a moment and QUICKLY answer these two simple questions:

1) Define Happiness - State what happiness is and what happiness means to you.  (Warning, this is a trick question and running to the Internet or Dictionary won't help.)

2) Define a Happy Life - Describe what a happy life is and means to you.

Uncertain?  Can you create a happy life if you can't answer them?  Links to Happiness Habit's definitions of Happiness and a Happy Life are posted on the Creating Happiness Index page.

Many people are frustrated that they are not happier when they haven't made happiness a goal, they haven't defined happiness or discovered how happiness really works.  Happiness Habit answers these questions and describes how to create a happy life.

*Where We Look Determines What We See is a key corollary to The  Second Law of Happiness:  Our Vision Determines Our Direction.  There is often an abundance of attractive alternatives when we search widely. 

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Be Guided By Goodness

The happiest people are the most loving people, they are very kind, caring, compassionate and generous. They have high ethics and integrity and they are guided by goodness.

People trust, respect, like and admire them because of their goodness.

They continually try to do their best, feel their best and be at their best all of the time.  They really enjoy doing good work.

This follows from The First Law of Happiness: Our Focus Determines Our Feelings

When we focus our time and attention on doing good and on being good we feel good.  Continually trying to do our best helps us to feel our best. 

If you have ever had a bad day when you only put out a minimal effort and felt pretty mediocre, this is why.  You didn't try very hard and nothing much was achieved or attained.  

If you don't aim for happiness, excellence or (fill in the blank) it often only happens by accident.

Our Aim Determines Our Achievements

Happiness comes with a clear conscience, from doing our best, being kind and avoiding evil.  When we do our best, even if things don't go well, we can be comforted by knowing there was nothing more we could do.

Being Guided By Goodness also means taking the high road and living with great integrity and honesty.

We cannot be happy if we are ashamed of our actions or if we are concerned our misdeeds will be exposed, and condemned.  We don't like people we can't trust.

People who enjoy hurting others or who simply don't care have impaired consciences that are not guiding  or protecting them well from misdeeds. They are often stunned when the Universe meters out its own special kind of justice.

Happiness comes from being kind to the people around you and by living in harmony with your surroundings.

To be happy, embrace the highest and best values and live by them.  Enjoy doing well.

Decide to Be Guided By Goodness

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Love Powers Happiness

The Happiest People
Are The Most Loving People

Habitually Happy people are very kind, caring, compassionate and generous.

They have high ethics, integrity and live in harmony with their surroundings. People like, respect, admire and trust them.

They love what they do, they love the people around them, they love their work and they love themselves. Love truly does propel happiness.

The best way to excel and do well is to cultivate a love for what you do.

Love Is An Active Verb - It is something we can decide to do.

Love is an emotion we can choose to feel and project and share with others. Love can be expressed through everything we do. Love is not just something that happens to us, it is something we can decide to summon up, proect and share with the world.

Wrap work and chores in affection.  See each task or step as a satisfying achievement that moves you closer to success or a worthwhile goal.

Expect To Enjoy Your Work And
Find Ways To Make Work Enjoyable And Rewarding

Decide what you are going to do and find ways to make it fun and meaningful. 

Actively dreading or disliking tasks you have to complete allows negativity to detract from both your enjoyment and your ability to perform well. Try wrapping Have To Do's in a little bit of love.

Wherever Love Is Limited Or Lacking There Is NO Happiness

Love Powers And Propels Happiness

The more we love, the happier we become.

The Best Way To Be Happy And Spiritually Successful Is To Love Expansively And Extensively

Related Posting - Enjoying Work

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