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How To Be Happy
Life doesn’t care about you. You’re alive. You’re dead. It’s all the same.
We live in a world where we put value on the next social media post, if someone virtually likes us, or that it wasn’t “fair,” she got the job/project/raise/etc. instead of me.
We’re all different.
What makes you happy is likely a lot different than what makes me happy. I started writing a list of what makes me happy, so I deleted it. It was too long!
Instead of a list, I turned it into a series of principles that help guide me to be happy each day.
Happiness isn’t a product of a thing, but rather, a feeling, a thought — something ingrained in your personality.
Understand the world owes you nothing. Complaining is a bad habit.
We often think we’re owed something. Because I did this, I get that.
Life isn’t about equal give and takes. Life doesn’t give a shit about what you “want.”
Complaining about it produces bad emotions that distract you from pushing forward.
Life will keep moving on whether you get what you want or not.
