Tools For Happiness

<p><strong>Rate this podcast: </strong><a href="https://ratethispodcast.com/mpi"><u><strong>https://ratethispodcast.com/mpi</strong></u></a></p> <p><br></p> <p>It seems people are always seeking happiness like it's a destination we get to...&nbsp;</p> <p>One day.</p> <p>Hopefully.</p> <p>When in reality, happiness is something that we generate inside of ourselves.</p> <p>The problem is that people seek happiness from external things.</p> <p>The wins we call them.</p> <p>The Dopamine kicks in and we say "I'm happy!!!"</p> <p>While that IS a way to express happiness, it's not the point of this post.</p> <p>We want to generate happiness.</p> <p>Here are some tools you can use to start generating happiness <em><strong>regardless of the situation you're in:</strong></em></p> <p><strong>1. Alignment</strong></p> <p>Pay attention to your longings and discontentment.&nbsp;</p> <p>That is life's way of telling you what you're in alignment with or not.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you're in a job that you feel is draining for you mentally and physically and just doesn't FEEL worth it to you (much like I was)...</p> <p>It's out of alignment!</p> <p>Same goes for relationships.</p> <p>The way you work out.</p> <p>Where you live.</p> <p>Etc, etc, etc.</p> <p>Howard Thurman said "Don't do what you think the world needs, do what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs are more people who have come alive."</p> <p>Do what gives you life.</p> <p><strong>2. Express Gratitude</strong></p> <p>Gratitude is something you generate from within.</p> <p>Gratitude is the FEELING of deep appreciation for what you have in your life right now.</p> <p>We EXPRESS gratitude by actually FEELING IT.</p> <p>Not just thinking or talking about it.</p> <p>If you're not FEELING it, it's not working.</p> <p>Period.</p> <p>Practice saying "Thank you for (x)"</p> <p>Thank you for my hearing, eyesight, car, the fact that I can feel things, my taste, my legs, my phone, my house...</p> <p>Etc, etc, etc.</p> <p>And if you don't have some of those things, focus a