How Badly Do YOU Want to be Happy?

A Few Helpful Ideas:

 How to Develop a Happy Attitude

It’s our attitude that determines how much we succeed in life

People with happy, positive attitudes enjoy life more fully and are generally more successful than those who spend their life gloomy and pessimistic. Our attitude is the driving force in our lives—it can either push you to do great things or pull you down to your demise. Even if they are “faking” that smile, a faked smile is better than NO smile! We truly can CHOOSE our attitude and disposition each and every day.

While it’s true that humans are born with certain tendencies or orientations, our personalities and attitudes are developed through our thought processes and experiences. Our attitudes begin to develop in childhood and constantly evolve and change over the years through day-to-day interactions and experiences. We can choose to be happy and learn from difficult times just as it is actually a choice to let tough times bring us down.

Every experience in your life and all the people you have interacted with can have an impact on your attitude. Don’t make the common mistake of blaming others for your attitude. Don’t allow life’s circumstances to steal your joy! Being happy is a choice we can ALL make every single day, and we actually continue to make that choice all day long. Here are a few ideas that may help you.

5 Simple Things That Can Help Change Your Attitude

First

Identify and Understand What Needs to Change for YOU to Be Happy

The first step towards change is for you to clearly understand what YOU need to change. Setting clear goals is the only way to succeed in any endeavor. When it comes to changing your attitude, you need to do an honest and in-depth self-evaluation so you can identify which of your traits need to be improved or totally changed.

Second

Everyone Should Have a Role Model

If you do not truly believe that your personal dreams and goals are even possible, your own mind will find ways to sabotage you on your journey. We all need to know that what we can in FACT do what we set out to do! We need to be more optimistic and above all we need to BELIEVE in ourselves! One of the very best ways to assist ourselves in achieving our goals is to find someone who has done exactly, (or as close as possible), what you want to do. If you can find someone with the attitude that you want to have and who has also accomplished similar things to your personal hopes and dreams you can let his or her life give you inspiration and encouragement to move beyond where you seem to be stuck. After all, if someone else can achieve these things, why can’t you?!

Third

How Does Your Attitude Affect Your Life?

First ask yourself what kind of attitude you have. Be brutally honest. Do you have a very “can do” attitude or do you tend to doubt yourself? Are you your own biggest cheerleader? Do you allow others to squash your dreams? To be able to hurdle through many of the challenges that will lie ahead of you in your journey towards self-betterment, you need to decide exactly what kind of changes you will need to make in your life. Will changing your attitude mean a happier family, business or social life? Fix your mind on the things that would come as a result of a positive attitude change and you will have a greater chance of reaching your goal. And try to remember, you don’t need others to believe in you, it is most important that you believe in yourself!

                                                                      Fourth

Choose Your Friends Wisely

Pay attention to those whom you choose to surround yourself with.  It is a lot harder to change if you are  surrounded by  people who are negative and have no faith in you. While it is not required that others believe in you, it does help!  Consider befriending new people, especially those who are optimistic and have a healthy attitude towards life. You will see that your effort to change and accomplish your hopes, dreams and goals will be easier with positive and uplifting people in your life cheering you on!.

Fifth

You ARE Able to Change…Believe It!

Often, the greatest obstacle between us and our goals is ourselves or our own inability to trust in what we are able to do.  If you don’t believe in yourself or believe that you have the ability to change your life, it probably won’t happen. You may never even start, or you may give up quickly and you won’t  have even given yourself the opportunity to succeed.

It cannot be denied that a positive attitude is very important for living a successful and satisfying life, so it only makes sense to strive to have a positive attitude.  Deep down inside we all have hopes & dreams. With a positive attitude you can finally realize those dreams and make them a reality. So, how badly do you want to change? Hmmm??

        

*Remember when you were a small child

and happiness took no effort at all? try to harness that same energy by playing with a child. It is a guaranteed attitude adjuster!