My Life Of A Happy Life

“How many things have to happen to you,” Robert Frost Writes, “before something occurs to you?” A person wakes up every morning to the same gray walls and eats the same flavorless slop. Seeing no changes they seem to ask themselves if life is worth living. They are unhappy but are afraid of new environments and unknown areas. Wishing things can go back to when their worries were as simple as trying to memorize the multiplication tables. Although it is written that change is in every person’s destiny, there are several reasons a person might or might not seek out change. For instance, a person’s environment or way of living can be one of the hardest things to change. Living in the projects, bills to pay and people to obey are a few reasons many steer away from change. Secondly unexpected life events like suddenly having to become a parent and learning how to raise a baby while trying to balance sudden deaths that may occur. Thirdly, discovering a person’s true emotions for another human being can create what I like to call a domino effect. Whether you consider the environment to be the atmosphere around you or the place to which a person calls home, one thing is certain that in any environment a person must adjust in order to survive, and through any adjustments comes change.

I like to think of myself as a stick to the routine type of person. I don’t like monumental changes. When I was in high school I use to come in the class sit down, and write note to the end. When I stepped out of class I still always had a question to be answered. In 11 grade reading class there would be times that I would be so lost that I would just put my head down and wait until class end and I would walk out with frustration because if I raised my hand , to ask a question I thought some one might laugh at my question and I would feel embarrassed. Towards my senior year in high school I learned how to over come my fear of facing the real world and asking all the question I need to help me succeed through out life.

The only real change comes from inside. There is nothing in life that will ever change you drastically unless you let it. Life will only change you if you let it, that's why people walk around like they are protecting themselves with an imperceptible forcefield of false sangfroid attempting to act like they have their entire life together. The only way to perceive change is to go through a slow process of self development. In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks does a marvelous job of portraying how isolation and desperation can have a negative toll on a fragile mind.

We all have the opportunity to be happy, what we do with that opportunity is on us. We all face challenges, some more difficult than others but there does come a point in our lives where we have to choose.. We have to make the decision to take the opportunity of happiness or to not. We all given them opportunity even if it might not seem so. If a person is in a healthy environment, has an appropriate attitude and has love in their life, they have the opportunity to be happy.

In life, there are many ways you can live, however, the manner in which you live is your choice. In most peoples’ lives, they want to leave this world and say that they were happy and enjoyed every single moment of it. People feel like if they lived a happy life, then that is all that matters. But what if life has more to do than just being happy, what if it was meant for you to change the world or the lives of others? If you changed the life of another person and made them happy, you made a difference. A happy life is a good one, but a meaningful life is fruitful.

People can change from being forced, or just wanting to transform for the better. In Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge learns to change for the better. He is accompanied by three ghosts, Past, Present and Future, that make him realize he needs to alter his actions. People can adapt mentally and physically. Their fate lies in the hands of other people willing to accept them for who they are or not. Willing to accept people that are brave enough to change is a good trait to have. Wanting a drastic transformation in your life will require assistance of showing sedulous care, perseverance, and commitment.

Life is an ever-changing reaction to the different situations that we are exposed to. Sometimes these opportunities for change are forced upon you, such as requirements at work, at home, or at school. Other times these changes are brought on by your reflection of things that have happened in the past.

“Choose to be happy.” This is what mom has always said, since a very young age and still to this day she tells everyone. For so long, it was just “mom talk”, those things your mother says that is supposed to make you stop and think. Yet, being too young, dumb and full of it, to really understand what she means. Curiosity emerges and suddenly there is a need to understand what it really means to be happy, what constitutes Happiness? So follow up with some research, entering the bookstore, gliding in and out of the rows and rows in the self-help sections are others, asking the same question. What is happiness? Where does it come from, are we born with it or do we make it happen? Happiness is but a belief, an idea, a theory; but theories,

No one forces you to be happy, we as individuals have to choose to be happy. This option to be happy gives people opportunities to be better. Choosing to be happy can lead to accomplishing your, or others dreams,overcoming obstacles, and giving others happiness.

Life is a chain of changes that puts people in different situations and every change come with its struggles and we have to move along with the change.People might take the changes in different ways and everyone has their own story that makes them unique from other people and changes make people live through same story again and again or never.Going through changes and adapting to them is the real challenge that you have to go through and how you handle it gives you the identity but it is not an easy path to take for everyone some give up;some don’t even start to get on the path to achieve what they want in their life.

This project is all about maximizing your personal brain power by changing something in your life all while following the steps of changeology.The steps include psych, prep, perspire, perspective,and persist which all include useful information and guide you to achieving whatever your goal is. Using these methods I will change for the better and improve my daily routines all while keeping track of my progress throughout the course of two weeks.As for this week I will present to you the first two steps of changeology which include psych and prep.

I think that the body not only is functional to the mind but also is beautiful, special and productive.

putting a hat on a snowy day. waking up early on a Sunday morning. avoiding that cheesecake after a great meal. choices. we make those choices in our everyday life.we don't question these choices because we already know why we choose to do these decisions. we put on a hat because its cold. we wake early to feel revived.we avoid that yummy cheesecake because we want to avoid those extra calories. while reading, The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and Arriving at perfection by Benjamin Franklin, coming to a conclusion on how a person can choose happiness was not as complicated as it seemed. A person chooses happiness through self-motivation, in other words to make one a better self. There are times where we want to better ourselves but for

Essentially, seeking happiness is necessary in life. We often hope to find happiness from other people, other things around us and forget that we can create it by ourselves. The novel “The happiness project” by Gretchen Rubin is sufficient evidence. The author states, “I am happy – but I’m not as happy as I should be.”(13) Then she started a project within a year to change her life and seek for a happier life. By making a list of things she has to do in the next twelve months, the author have done many things which affects her “Vitality” (1), her “Marriage” (38), her “Leisure” (112), her “Friendship” (141),etc. positively so that she can achieve her goal, which is a life full filed of happiness as she dreamed before. We can also do that. We know that if everyone of us set a goal and live purposely, we are all happy. However, we can be happier if we know how to change ourselves on the right way. We can make ourselves happy by doing simple things in our everyday life.

Not your spouse, not your boss, not some unknown savant. If you want to change your life, you must change it.