Your happiness is contagious and when other people are around you they can't help but feel happy. I mean it is a win/win situation your happiness means the end of your personal suffering and ultimately helping others end their suffering as well, hhhhmm seems like a no brainer to me.

I want to distinguish what I mean when I refer to ending your personal suffering. I am not suggesting that by ending personal suffering you will never experience a difficult situation again. Rather your internal responses to external circumstances and your overall experience of life will be altered. By focusing on being happy you will be able to experience a joy and peace in your life irrelevant of what is going on. Here is another little tool that will help you tap into your happiness that I use. I think of images that make me really happy. My dog's cute little sleeping face and my little cousin's chubby cute smiling face, both of these work like a charm. They are like a drug as soon as I think of them I can't help but smile and feel really good inside.

Your assignment for this week: Be responsible for your own happiness. Do not look for external things to make you happy (person, job, money) or wait to arrive somewhere to then be happy (vacation, retirement, marriage) focus on happiness in the now.

Use the tips that I mentioned above:

1. Make a grateful list. Focus on the areas in your life where you are suffering the most and have a loss of power. What can you be grateful for in this situation. You can write a list out or if you are in an unpleasant situation or feeling state just say the list to yourself.

2. Think of something that makes you happy: A little baby's face, a special moment you shared with someone, nature.

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