14 Thoughts on Being Happier by Choice

Alright, so maybe this is cheating just a little bit, but this post is a collection of 14 of my daily Facebook/Twitter posts about happiness, gathered together for the first time. My goal is to keep doing the daily posts for as long as I can, so I'll post collections from time to time. You can always find the original posts on Twitter at #HappierByChoice.

Have a happy day!

1. Life is a daily opportunity to be better and to create our own happiness.
2. Sometimes I sit and create lists of things that make me happy, as a reminder.*
3. When I'm down, a great strategy is to get busy, which switches gears in my brain and eventually I get happy again.
4. Momentum in life is pretty much everything. Don’t lean in to a down mood, do something active to change momentum.
5. The more you can train yourself to not care about what other people think of you, the happier you will be.
6. The search of happiness is just about the most important thing, because happiness breeds happiness, and happiness makes the world better.
7. I have never experienced, nor even heard of, any tough situation that was improved with unhappiness.
8. Friends should be one of our greatest sources of happiness. If they aren’t, make new ones.
9. Happiness based on the external can be elusive. Lasting happiness comes from inside.
10. It is nobody else’s job to make us happy.
11. For some, getting happy takes a lot of work. It is worth it.
12. Aren’t you just happier when you are doing something and being productive?
13. To shake the blues, help someone — spend real time volunteering for a charity.
14. I’m not very churchy, but church offers so many opportunities to get happy.