If you want to find happiness, there are several prerequisites. Some of them are obvious, some are not. The fundamental prerequisite is that… believe you can succeed! Without this belief, it does not make sense to even start the exercise because you’ve already decided it will fail, and will ensure the result validates your negative belief.
On the other hand, if you truly believe that you can find happiness… you SHALL find it.
However, this belief can’t be just pulled out of a hat at a moment’s notice.
It should be based on sound logic. You should investigate the following questions to decide if you want to believe:
- Have people gone from happy to unhappy before?
- Do I have the special skills that may be required to find happiness?
- Do I have the specific worldly assets that may be required to find happiness?
- Do I have the time to find happiness?
Let’s look at these questions together, one by one…
Have people gone from happy to unhappy before:
Yes. I’m one of them. I was very unhappy and very confused; my work was beginning to suffer because of my state of mind. “I have to get out of this state, and I will do whatever it takes,” I resolved unto myself. It was a do or die situation.
That’s how I started refurbishing my mind, and over the course of time, I transformed it from a bombed-out ruin to a gleaming, bombproof showcase of a metropolis. I kid thee not.
Do I have the special skills that may be required to find happiness:
No special skills are required. You already possess unshakable happiness, only you do not know that it’s there! It’s as if you have been living happily all these years with an extra liver without knowing about it. Once someone makes you feel it by pressing from the outside, you start believing.
Do I have the specific worldly assets that may be required to find happiness:
You must have food, safety, freedom from great physical pain and an opportunity to be undisturbed for 10 minutes every day (it can even be in your office chair).
Do I have the time to find happiness:
You need 10 minutes, five times a week.
To put the above answers in a nutshell, finding happiness is something that someone has done before, and the process for it requires no skill and a minimal physical situation. In all probability, you have what it takes to find happiness.
THEREFORE YOU CAN BELIEVE WITHOUT RISK THAT YOU WILL SUCCEED IN YOUR QUEST TO FIND HAPPINESS.
So if you can do it, what are you waiting for?
- Wouldn’t you like to get up every morning looking forward to the coming day?
- Wouldn’t you like to sit back and enjoy thinking how nice life is?
These things WILL happen if you set your mind to it.
Stop wasting time, stop being gloomy, be positive, happiness is yours for the taking and all you have to do is…
GET TO WORK… NOW!!
To your happiness,
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Yes, yes, yes….you are an excellent writer. I totally agree. Once you believe, the rest is so much easier. You just start having more happy thoughts than not.
And the interesting thing is, as you move forward, the next steps become visible. You just have to believe in them to progress on to them!
Excellent post. I’m a firm believer our thoughts have energy that create the world we want to see.
Glad to hear that… for to believe is to have immense creative power.
These are indeed true. They’re very simple and doable steps, and very true. I like most especially the first statement:
“The fundamental prerequisite is that… believe you can succeed!”
I remember Yoda’s declaration in the Star Wars movie (Have you watched it?) He said : “Do, or do not, there is not try!”
A very encouraging post. Way to go!