When I make $10,000, I\u2019ll be happy.
\nWhen I travel to all of my bucket list items, I\u2019ll be happy.
\nWhen I graduate, I\u2019ll be happy.
\nWhen I find the love of my life, I will be happy.<\/p>\n
Do these statements sound familiar?<\/p>\n
Ever since I was little I had this feeling that happiness was all a mindset. Now don\u2019t get me wrong\u2026 I wasn\u2019t a little 10 year old saying \u201clet\u2019s all adjust our mindset.\u201d I just remember being able to look at situations differently. I remember being the target of some bullying and knowing that it wasn\u2019t the end of the world. Not that it wasn\u2019t affecting me, but that I knew I could still be happy from this.<\/p>\n
And maybe this was just the stellar way that my parents raised me or maybe I just always knew we could be more if we wanted.<\/p>\n
Somewhere along the line, I lost that feeling a bit and I fell into the trap of comparing my happiness to things other people had. Thinking, well if I had that much success I would be happy too or if I was that pretty I could be happy all the time also.
\nI can\u2019t blame myself, as a young adult in America it is so easy to be subjected to this material happiness. And it wasn\u2019t until recently I remembered that I could be happy every day and it would start with myself.<\/p>\n
And with that included not gauging my happiness by my successes or wins. Not creating false happiness only when I knew something good was going to happen. But creating happiness within me every day.<\/p>\n
You have every single tool you need to be happy every day. And when you are basing your happiness on a milestone, in reality you will never find that happiness because there will always be more.
\nHappiness is a choice, not a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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