HOW TO BE HAPPY

HOW TO BE HAPPY

Elizabeth Scott


WHILE people have many and varied goals that they pursue, there is an almost universal underlying goal to virtually all pursuits: the goal to be happy. People who spend a lot of time making money generally do so because they believe that the money itself will make them happy, or will guard them against things that will make them unhappy. If the focus isnt on the money, but on the jobs that bring the money , those jobs are generally thought to make people happy . People strive for that perfect relationship, the perfect house, the beautiful body, the approval of others, all in an attempt to be happy.
Sometimes these things make us happy; other times, we stress over not having reached our goals, or we reach them and find that were still not happy. Other times, we focus so intensely on one goal thats thought to bring happiness that we dont have time for other things in our life that will make us truly happy. Positive Psychology experts those who study human happiness and the factors that contribute to it have identified several key areas of life that seem to be more related to personal happiness.
Some of them are the things that you would expect : money, friends, health, living conditions; others are things you may not think of in your daily life, such as your neighbourhood, community involvement, and sense of meaning in life. Your attitude about life and the things that happen to you each day can also greatly impact your overall level of happiness and life satisfaction.